Branthog

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Branthog , also Branthoh (* around 970; † 23 August 1036, probably in Halberstadt ) was abbot of the Fulda monastery from 1011 and bishop of Halberstadt from 1023 to 1036 .

Life

Branthoh became a monk in the Fulda monastery around 1000. Until 1011 he rose to the position of grand provost of the monastery. In 1011 the monks of the Fulda monastery elected him as Branthoh II as their abbot.

Since Branthoh II was against the introduction of the monastery reform of Gorze in Fulda, the king deposed him in 1013. In view of the violent introduction of the Gorzer Reform, the deposed abbot left the Fulda monastery with some of the monks (including Bardo von Oppershofen ) and went to Halberstadt with them . There she took in Bishop Arnulf von Halberstadt and then sent her on to the new monastery in Ilsenburg in the Harz Mountains .

After Bishop Arnold's death in 1023, Emperor Heinrich II made Branthoh bishop of Halberstadt , where he was called Branthog (II). Under him, the diocese experienced a significant upswing, and in memory of his old homeland he founded the canons of St. Bonifatius in Bossleben .

Branthog was appointed by King Konrad II in 1025 in the Gandersheim dispute between Archbishop Aribo of Mainz and Bishop Godehard of Hildesheim over the subordination of the Hildesheim imperial monastery to its professorial interim and took part in the Synod of Frankfurt in 1027 .

His burial took place in Halberstadt Cathedral .

literature

  • Josef Leinweber : The Fulda abbots and bishops. Festival of the Diocese of Fulda for Bishop Eduard Schick for the Diamond Jubilee of Priests . Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7820-0585-6 , p. 38.
  • Eduard Machatschek : History of the bishops of the Meissen Monastery in chronological order (...) . Dresden 1884. pp. 46-48.

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predecessor Office successor
Arnulf Bishop of Halberstadt
1023-1036
Burchard I.
predecessor Office successor
Erkanbald Abbot of Fulda
1011-1013
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