Brun I. of Verden

Brun I. (also Bruno ) († on February 14, March 7 or April 26, 976 ) was the 16th Bishop of Verden from 962 to 976 .

Brun was probably a son of Wichmann I from his marriage to a sister of Queen Mathilde . He belonged to the richest and most powerful gender association in northern Saxony , the descendants of Widukind . Hermann Billung († 973), the progenitor of the Billunger and the 15th Bishop of Verden, Amelung († May 5, 962), would then be related to him. While his alleged brothers Wichmann II and Ekbert the One-Eyed were brought up at the court of King Otto I after the death of their father in 942 , Brun entered the Benedictine monastery in Corvey .

Otto I made him the successor of the late Bishop Amelung. With the elevation to the 16th Bishop of Verden, he left the monastery.

In the year 966 or 973 Brun founded the canonical monastery Oldenstadt . The foundation took place on his estate Ullishusen (today Uelzen ) and was consecrated to Mary and St. John the Baptist .

Otto I sent Brun to the Hungarians as a negotiator . This trip was probably connected with the Hungarian embassy that appeared at the Hoftag in Quedlinburg.

Brun had a dispute with his uncle Hermann Billung and pronounced an excommunication against him. This ban was possibly related to the feud between his brothers Wichmann and Ekbert. They accused Hermann of having cheated them out of their paternal inheritance. Even after Hermann's death, he refused to lift the ban. Otto I. is said to have tried to put a coadjutor at the side of the decrepit Brun , which Brun resolutely resisted. In the end he voluntarily retired to a monastery.

He generously furnished the monastery in Oldenstadt he founded. He left Verden Cathedral only an allodial to pay for his memorie . He also founded two evangelists and a vicar position.

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• Arend Mindermann: Document book of the bishops and the cathedral chapter of Verden (Verden document book, 1st section) Volume 1 From the beginnings to 1300, Stade 2001. P. 37–45

Remarks

1. ↑ Nathalie Kruppa: The Billunger and their monasteries. Examples of the extensive connections in early medieval Saxony. In: Concilium medii aevi. Vol. 12 (2009), pp. 1–41, here pp. 7 and 22 PDF
2. ↑ Otto I. (RI II) n.338a (RI-Online)
3. ↑ Caspar Ehlers : The integration of Saxony into the Frankish empire. Göttingen, 2007 p. 88; Nathalie Kruppa: The Billungers and their monasteries. Examples of the extensive connections in early medieval Saxony. In: Concilium medii aevi. Vol. 12 (2009), pp. 1-41, here p. 22
4. ^ Otto I. (RI II) n.569 RI-Online
5. ↑ Gerd Althoff : Otto the Great and the new European identity. in: Andreas Ranft (Ed.): The Hoftag in Quedlinburg 973: from the historical roots to the New Europe. DeGruyter, Berlin 2006, pp. 3–18, here p. 6.
6. ↑ Christoph Gottlieb Pfannkuche: The older history of the former diocese of Verden. Verden, 1830 pp. 42-47. Full text in Google Book Search.

predecessor	Office	successor
Amelung of Verden	Bishop of Verden 962–976	Erp of Verden