Baturich

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Baturich , also Bathurich , in the manuscripts: Baturicus, Batu rih († January 12, 847 ) was (from 739 onwards) the fifth bishop of Regensburg from 817 to 847.

Origin and career

Like some of his predecessors (e.g. Sigi rih ), Baturich came from the noble family of the Hachilinga and thus, according to the Lex Baiuvariorum, one of the six Bavarian "primordial families" (see also Hechlingen ). He studied and taught in the Fulda monastery . There Rabanus Maurus , one of the most important figures of the Carolingian Renaissance , became his pupil and friend. Rabanus praised the soaring wall of the city of Regensburg in a poem to Baturich . After Hatto's death , Reginhar was elected bishop of the Diocese of Passau . There should have been riots because the Salzburg Metropolitan Arn objected to the election and had designated Baturich for this office. The dispute probably only ended when Baturich took over the office of bishop in Regensburg in 817. Like the other first Regensburg bishops, he was also head of Sankt Emmeram .

Under King Ludwig the German

Baturich's term of office was marked by the troubled times of the fighting within the Carolingian family , which finally led to the armed conflicts between 830 and 842. Although he did not go to war with him, he still supported his lord King Ludwig the German not only with his advice, but also with money and people. Like his successor as Archkaplan Grimald von Weißenburg , Baturich became one of the most important personalities in Ludwig's government. Baturich was probably present at the people's assembly in Aachen in 825 , where negotiations were held with the Bulgarians over the borders of the Frankish and Bulgarian empires and, as a result, the Bulgarians invaded the Eastern Bavarian region . On October 6, 832, Baturich received Herilungoburc (presumably Pöchlarn ) and the surrounding area in the Awarenmark from Ludwig the German as a gift. Pöchlarn belonged to the diocese of Regensburg until 1803. In 833 he was appointed his first arch chaplain by Ludwig the German, who often resided in Regensburg. In 834 he received from Traungau Count Wilhelm and his wife Engilrada their possessions at Perschling in exchange for his possessions at Eskinuta and Vuesin. In 837 the Mondsee Monastery became the property of Baturich. The wife of King Hemma contributed to this, and Ludwig the Germans arranged for them to acquire the Obermünster convent , of which the abbess became the queen, in return for Mondsee.

In 844 he baptized 14 Bohemian princes who had come to Regensburg specifically for this purpose, and was commissioned to instruct the inhabitants of Bohemia in the Christian religion. Also in 844 he stood up for his former scribe Dominicus , after which King Ludwig the German gave him goods to Brunnaron in the county of Steinamanger for colonization and worked as a Christian missionary in the Balaton Principality .

Baturich's writing school

He learned the art of writing as a monk at the St. Emmeram monastery . With the assumption of office as bishop, a standardization and improved style security in the script in Regensburg can be determined. It is therefore assumed that there was a deliberate reform of the scriptures in Regensburg, which perhaps goes back to the bishop himself. In order to provide the monastery with good manuscripts, Baturich used his clerics and notaries. One of his clerics, named Engyldeo, is believed to have the oldest recorded record in neumenal signs . Writings from the bishop's possession have been preserved and are now kept in the Bavarian State Library in Munich .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg , Verlag Habbel, 1966, pp. 16 to 18
  2. ↑ a b Bayerisches Volksblatt , January 1, 1853
  3. ^ Andreas Buchner: History of Baiern. Second book. Baiern under the Carolingians from the year 788 to 911 , self-published, Regensburg 1821
  4. ↑ RI I n. 1347 Donation from Ludwig the German to Bishop Baturich von Regensburg on the Regesta Imperii website
  5. ↑ Donation of the area to the diocese of Regensburg by Ludwig the Elder. Germans on the website of the Landesmuseum Niederösterreich, accessed on April 15, 2013
  6. ^ Archives for Austrian History, Volume 2 , Verlag Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1852
  7. ^ Contributions to the history of the diocese of Regensburg. Volume 42 , published by the Association for Regensburg Diocesan History, Regensburg 2008
  8. ↑ Hemma on the website "Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints"
  9. ↑ Geord Schmid: Communications of the Association for the History of Germans in the Sudeten, Volume 23 , Publishers Society for the History of Germans in Bohemia, Prague 1885
  10. ^ Regest 1379 (donation from Ludwig the German to Dominicus) on the Regesta Imperii website
  11. ^ Bernhard Bischoff: The southeast German writing schools and libraries in the Carolingian era, Part I, The Bavarian Dioceses , Otto Harrassowitz publishing house, Wiesbaden
predecessor Office successor
Adalwin Bishop of Regensburg
817–847 		Erchanfried
personal data
SURNAME Baturich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bathuric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Regensburg
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century or 9th century
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 847