Baugulf of Fulda

Baugulf (also Baugolf (us) , Bagolf, Bougolf, latinized Bougolfus; † July 8, 815 ) was abbot of Fulda from 779 to 802 .

Baugulf came from the Rhine Franconian nobility. Like his brother, Bishop Erkanbert von Minden , he was previously a monk in Fulda.

As the successor to the founder abbot Sturmius , he continued the expansion of the Fulda monastery, founded in 744. Rich donations from the nobility and Charlemagne let the monastery property grow to around 6,000 Hufen und Mansen and around 30,000 acres of Salland by the beginning of the 9th century, and enabled an increase in the number of monks from 364 in 781 to at least 603 a year 825 as well as the founding of secondary monasteries such as Hünfeld and Rasdorf . The foundations Großburschla , Hameln and Brunshausen, dated from older research to the Baugulf time and associated with the Sachsenmissionare recently added later. But Fulda’s participation in the subjugation and missionary work of the Saxons (Kommandantur der Eresburg 779) , which had already been initiated under Baugulf's predecessor, was undoubtedly continued.

Also on the initiative of Charlemagne ( epistula de litteris colendis ), the educational reform of the Carolingian Renaissance or Renovatio was also introduced in Fulda. Like other Fulda monks, z. E.g. the emperor biographer Einhard and the future abbot Hatto, later abbot and important scholar Hrabanus Maurus , who was sent to the court school of Charlemagne and to Tours to Alcuin , became a teacher at the monastery school. The beginnings of the construction of a monastery library, the holdings of which extended beyond the narrowest range of biblical and monastic literature, should fall during this time. Under Baugulf, the annalistic historiography also began in the Fulda monastery.

In view of the growing size and importance of the convent, Baugulf began building the new monastery church. The previous building was built over and significantly enlarged. The construction management lay with the Fulda monk Ratgar von Fulda, who would later become Baugulf's successor.

The role that Baugulf played on the occasion of the so-called Hardrat Conspiracy in 785 is unclear . There is some evidence that he had family ties to leading members of the Thuringian aristocracy, which could explain that they fled to the monastery, allegedly to submit to the protection of the patron Boniface . Perhaps they were hoping for intercession from their relative Abbot Baugulf.

A conflict with Bishop Bernwelf of Würzburg over the interpretation of the Zacharias privilege falls in the year 794 or 800. Bernwelf had consecrated the Fulda area or even in the main monastery without being legitimized by the invitation from the abbot and the convent, which is prescribed in the privilege be. The emperor decided this dispute in Baugulf's favor.

Towards the end of the term of office there were conflicts between the abbot and the convent, which ultimately led to Baugulf's resignation, despite the mediation efforts of Alcuin . He was accused of having dispensed with the strict Fulda Consuetudines. He withdrew to the ancillary monastery Wolfsmünster near Hammelburg. He died on July 8, 815 and was buried there. His vita was written on behalf of Abbot Eigil by the Fulda monk Brun Candidus von Fulda . It is no longer mentioned in the late medieval book indexes of the Fulda monastery, so it was perhaps already lost then, at the latest when the Fulda library was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War it was lost.

literature

• Ulrich Hussong : Studies on the history of the imperial abbey of Fulda up to the turn of the millennium . In: Archiv für Diplomatik 32, 1986, pp. 129–304, here p. 134; Pp. 140-149.
• Ulrich Hussong: The imperial abbey of Fulda in the early and high Middle Ages. With a view of the late Middle Ages . In: Walter Heinemeyer, Berthold Jäger (Hrsg.): Fulda in his story. Landscape, Imperial Abbey, City (publications of the Historical Commission Hesse 57). Parzeller , Fulda 1995, pp. 89-179, here pp. 102-107.
• Elisabeth Heyse: Baugulf . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 1627 f.
• Werner Kathrein: Fulda, St. Salvator. Historical overview . In: Germania Benedictina , Vol. 7: Hessen . Eos, St. Ottilien 2004, pp. 213-271, here pp. 218f.
• Josef Leinweber: The Fulda abbots and bishops. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Eva Krause: The councilor basilica in Fulda. An investigation into the history of research (sources and treatises on the history of the abbey and diocese of Fulda 27). Parzeller, Fulda 2002.
• Stefan Patzold: Chronological representation: The long way from the monastery to the city - Fulda in the time of the Carolingians and Ottonians . In: Wolfgang Hamberger et al. (Ed.): History of the city of Fulda , Bd. 1 From the beginnings to the end of the Old Kingdom . Parzeller, Fulda 2009, pp. 166-179, here pp. 172f.
• Mechthild Sandmann: Baugulf . In: Karl Schmid (Hrsg.): The monastery community of Fulda in the early Middle Ages (Münstersche Mittelalterschriften 8), Vol. 1, Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1978, p. 182.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marc-Aeilko Aris : Hrabanus Maurus and the Bibliotheca Fuldenis. In: Franz J. Felten, Barbara Nichtweiß (Ed.): Hrabanus Maurus. Scholar, Abbot of Fulda and Archbishop of Mainz , Mainz 2006, pp. 51–69, here pp. 54f.
2. ^ Richard Corradini: The Viennese Manuscript Cvp 430 *. A contribution to the historiography in Fulda in the early 9th century (= Fuldaer Hochschulschriften 37). Josef Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 2000; Eckhard Freise: The beginnings of historiography in the Fulda monastery. Dissertation Münster 1979.
3. ↑ Brun Candidus, Vita Aegil I praef. II (ed.Gereon Becht- Jördens: Vita Aegil abbatis Fuldenis a Candido ad Modestum edita prosa et versibus. An opus geminum of the IXth century. Self-published, Marburg 1994)

predecessor	Office	successor
Sturmius	Abbot of Fulda 779–802	Ratgar