Echo

Sarcophagus of Bishop Azecho, Salier Crypt of Worms Cathedral.

Sarcophagus (center), Salier tomb of Worms Cathedral

Azecho , sometimes also Hazecho or Hacego († January 18, 1044 ) was Bishop of Worms from 1025 to 1044 .

Live and act

Various sources say he was a Count of Nassau by birth . The Worms chronicler Friedrich Zorn (1538–1610) reports a. a. his funerary inscription, which also highlights his origins in the House of Nassau. In the same source it is said that his election as Worms Oberhirten took place on December 5, 1025.

Azecho took part in the Synod of Frankfurt in 1027 . In 1035 he consecrated the right altar in the crypt of the Limburg monastery near Bad Dürkheim , while the bishops Pilgrim of Cologne and Reginbald von Speyer , who were also present, consecrated the middle and left altar respectively. In the same year or 1036, Azecho accompanied Emperor Conrad II on one of his campaigns of the Wende . He was also on friendly terms with the emperor's daughter-in-law Gunhild . In a letter from August 1036, the court cleric Immo (later Bishop of Arezzo ) reported to his shepherd Azecho that Queen Gunhild had been sad since his departure, because no one gave her almond kernels anymore and comforted her with fatherly words.

In the Codex minor ecclesiae Spirensis , a copy book of the Speyer diocese from the 13th century, the note has been preserved that on December 3, 1038, Bishop Bardo of Mainz was in the aforementioned Limburg Abbey , in the presence of Emperor Conrad II , his wife Gisela and the bishops Azecho von Worms, Reginbald von Speyer , Heribert from Eichstätt , Thietmar von Hildesheim , as well as Walter von Verona in the calendar dispute against Bishop Wilhelm I of Strasbourg it was decided that the first Sunday of Advent would always be between November 27th and 27th must be committed on December 3rd. The background to the matter was a visit by the emperor to Strasbourg on November 26th of that year, where he was astonished to find that his uncle, Bishop Wilhelm, was celebrating the 1st Sunday of Advent there a week earlier, in which the emperor deviated from the ecclesiastical norm.

Azecho was buried in Worms. His sarcophagus is in the Salier Crypt of the Worms Cathedral .

In the so-called Lorsch letter collection (also Worms letter collection) various letters from the bishop to other clerics have been handed down in their original text.

literature

• Eduard Machatschek : History of the bishops of the Meissen Monastery in chronological order (...) . Dresden 1884. pp. 46-48.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Arnold : Wormser Chronik von Friedrich Zorn , Stuttgart, 1857; Digital scan
2. ^ Johann Georg Lehmann : Historical paintings from the Rhine district of Bavaria , Volume 2, Heidelberg, 1834, page 172; Digital scan
3. ^ Walter Bulst: The older Worms letter collection , Volume 3 of Monumenta Germaniae historica 1966, page 94, footnote 7 excerpt from the source
4. ^ Hansmartin Schwarzmaier: From Speyer to Rome. Stations and traces of life of the Salians. Sigmaringen 1991, ISBN 3-7995-4132-2 , p. 72 and 73
5. ↑ Online edition of the regest
6. ^ Online edition of an FAZ article about the "Advent dispute" between Emperor Konrad II and his uncle, Bishop Wilhelm
7. ^ Max Manitius : History of the Latin Literature of the Middle Ages: From the middle of the tenth century to the outbreak of the struggle between church and state , CH Beck Verlag, 1976, page 303, ISBN 340601402X ; Scan from the source

predecessor	Office	successor
Burchard	Bishop of Worms 1025-1044	Adalgar