Artold of Reims

Artold ( French Artaud ; † 962 ) was twice Archbishop of Reims as the successor to the Carolingian Hugo von Vermandois .

Artold was a monk when the Robertine Hugo the Great conquered the city of Reims in his feud with Count Heribert II of Vermandois in 931 , drove out the incumbent archbishop, the 11-year-old Hugo von Vermandois, Heribert's son, and put Artold in his place.

One of Artold's most important official acts was the coronation of the Carolingian Ludwig IV , whose elevation to King Hugo had brought about, on June 19, 936 in Laon . Ludwig's self-liberation from the tutelage of Hugo in the following year led to an alliance between Hugo and Heribert, who conquered Reims in 940, whereupon Artold was deposed and his predecessor Hugo, now twenty years old, was reinstated. Six years later (946), Ludwig IV managed to retake Reims and reinstall Artold as bishop.

In June 948, in the joint universal synod of Ingelheim, the bishops of the West and East Franconian Empire Artold's deposition was condemned, as was Hugo's fight against King Ludwig.

On November 12, 954 crowned Artold after Ludwig's death in Reims in the presence of both the Archbishop of Cologne Brun and Louis Hugo's son Lothar king.

Web links

• Artoldus archiepiscopus Remensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo of Vermandois	Archbishop of Reims 931–940	Hugo of Vermandois
Hugo of Vermandois	Archbishop of Reims 946–961	Odelric