Beornrad by Sens

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Beornrad († 797 ) was abbot in Echternach from 775 until his death and from 785/786 also Archbishop of Sens . He belonged to the learned court circle of Charlemagne under the name of Samuel. It is disputed whether he did missionary work in the Münsterland before Liudger's time and built the first church in Münster .

Life

Beornrad was of Anglo-Saxon origin.

He became abbot of the Echternach monastery in 775 and was the second successor to the monastery founder Willibrord . Charlemagne promoted the monastery by giving him the villa Duovendorf in the Moselgau or the Rhine island Breckera-Wetrida at the time of Beornrad . He also confirmed donations from earlier times to the monastery.

Possibly around 779 or around 785, Charlemagne ordered the missionary work in the Saxon area in the area around Münster by an abbot Bernrad. Josef Prinz argues that it was the Echternach abbot Beornrad. Eckhard Freise even assumes that Beornrad would have built the first church on the site of today's St. Paul's Cathedral in Münster. However, there are considerable source problems for the identity of the missionary with the Echternach abbot. It is not clear to what extent a donation from Gahlen an der Lippe to the Echternach monastery around 788/789 is related to this missionary activity by the abbot or a member of the monastery. It could also simply have to do with the presence of the monastery on the Lower Rhine in general.

Around 785/786 Beornrad was then appointed Archbishop of Sens. In addition, he retained the abbot dignity in Echternach.

Under the name of Samuel, Beornrad belonged to the learned court circle around Charlemagne. The king sent him in 790/791 as an envoy to Pope Hadrian I.

Alcuin mentions him in a letter poem that he is said to have written in York between 777 and 782 . He later dedicated his Vita Willibrordi to Beornrad. No literary works have survived by himself. But he was certainly also a vehicle for the cultural renewal movement at the time of Charlemagne.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RI I n.341, in: Regesta Imperii Online , (accessed July 31, 2013)
  2. ^ RI I n.342, in: Regesta Imperii Online , (accessed July 31, 2013)
  3. ↑ RI I n.343, in: Regesta Imperii Online , (accessed July 31, 2013).
  4. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: The cathedral monastery of St. Paul in Münster. Berlin, 1987 (Germania sacra NF 17.1). 119, Wilhelm Kohl: The Diocese of Münster 7.1. The diocese. Berlin, 1999 (Germania sacra NF 37.1) pp. 60f.
  5. ↑ Kurt Schäferdieck: Echternach. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , Vol. 6: Donar-Einbaum . DeGruyter, Berlin, 1996, ISBN 3-11-010468-7 , p. 353.
  6. ^ Sita Steckel: Cultures of Teaching in the Early and High Middle Ages. Authority, concepts of knowledge and networks of scholars . Böhlau, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20567-6 , pp. 326, 336, 592 (also dissertation, University of Munich 2006).
    Franz Brunhölzl : History of Latin Literature in the Middle Ages: Vol. 1: From Cassiodorus to the end of the Carolingian renewal . Fink, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7705-1113-1 , p. 284.
  7. ^ Franz Brunhölzl: History of Latin Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 1 . Fink, Munich, 1996, ISBN 3-7705-1113-1 , p. 312.
personal data
SURNAME Beornrad by Sens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beornrad from Echternach, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Echternach, Archbishop of Sens
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
DATE OF DEATH 797