Berethelmus

Berethelmus , Berthelmus or Berethelm is mentioned as Bishop of Cologne in 762, at the time of Pippin the Younger . Apart from his name, nothing has come down to us about him. Other forms of the name are Berehthelmus, Bernhelinus, Berterinus, Bertholinus.

Life

He appears on August 13, 762 in the high-ranking list of witnesses in an important document made out in Trisgodros by Pippin and his wife Bertrada . In the diploma they affirm the rights of the Prüm Abbey , which they founded in 752 as a Carolingian house monastery, and place the monastery under their protection. According to the various bishops' catalogs for Cologne, his episcopate is assigned a length of 10 years. The day of his death is said to be February 5th.

literature

• History of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Vol. 1: The Diocese of Cologne from the beginning to the end of the 12th century , ed. by Eduard Hegel, 2nd edition, revised by Friedrich Wilhelm Oediger, Bachem Cologne 1971

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Berethelmus . In: prosopographie.eu . Retrieved July 21, 2017.
2. ↑ MGH DK I No. 16 pp. 21-25; Beyer, Document Book, No. 16 pp. 19-22
3. ^ After Josef Heinzelmann: The way to Trigorium. Borders, roads and rule between Lower Moselle and the Middle Rhine in the early Middle Ages . In: JbwestdLG 21, 1995, p. 64f. it is about Treis
4. ↑ Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch online. (No longer available online.) September 8, 2012, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ MGH SS XIII p. 282-286; MGH SS XXIV p. 332-367

predecessor	Office	successor
Hildegar	Bishop of Cologne 762	Ricolf