Dragobodo

Dragobodo , also Tragobodo , ruled as Bishop of Speyer around 659 to 700 and was the founder of the Weissenburg Monastery in Alsace . In the official census of the Speyer bishops, he is named as the fifth bishop of the diocese.

Dragobodo is listed in the oldest Speyer bishops list, which was created between 1078 and 1088 in the Schäftlarn Abbey , under the name "Tragobodo" and is in second place. However, the group of the first eight bishops there is incomplete and in disarray.

According to a document dated February 24, 700, he built the Abbey of Weißenburg and was also the abbot there. Later medieval historical sources ousted Dragobodo as the founder of Weissenburg history and instead referred to the Merovingian King Dagobert I - to make the abbey older .

King Childerich II. († autumn 675) issued an immunity privilege for Bishop Dragobodo, according to which “the Church of Speyer, which is consecrated to the mother of the Lord and St. Stephen and which the apostolic father Dragobodo presides as bishop, on the encouragement of Apostolic men, Chlodulf , the Bishop of Metz and Chrotar, the Bishop of Strasbourg, furthermore, on the intercession of the Dukes Amalrich and Bonnifaz and on the advice of Queen Ennehilde, exempted from any tax demand that the royal chamber is entitled to levy should be."

At the Synod of Trier in 664, Bishop Dragobodo, as Bishop of Speyer, also signed the document establishing the monastery of Saint-Dié in the Vosges. The bishops Chlodulf of Metz and Chrotar of Strasbourg signed with him again .

During the reign of Dragobodo, on September 10, 670, in the Bienwald, not far from Speyer, near the present-day town of Rülzheim, Bishop Theodard of Maastricht (Diethard) was murdered by Franconian nobles. He was on his way to the King to protest the suppression of the Church in his area. The body of the head shepherd was first buried at the scene of the crime, later transferred to Liège by his pupil, St. Lambert . The murdered bishop is venerated as a saint. A chapel, the so-called " Dieterskirchel ", was built at the place of death and the first grave . The place became a place of pilgrimage that is still visited today and is one of the oldest in the Speyer diocese .

literature

Max Wilberg: Regent tables. A compilation of the rulers of countries all over the world up to the beginning of the 20th century ; Berlin: Transpress VEB publishing house for traffic, 1987 (= Frankfurt / Oder 1906); ISBN 3-344-00094-2 .
Georg Gresser : The Diocese of Speyer until the end of the 11th century ; Sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine Church history , 89; Mainz 1998.
Sigmund Joseph Zimmer : Article Speyer ; in: Wetzer and Welte's Church Lexicon or Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology and its auxiliary sciences , Volume 11; Freiburg: Herder'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1882–1903;
Jakob Baumann: History of the Bishops of Speyer, " The Pilgrim ", born in 1906
Ludwig Stamer : Church history of the Palatinate , Volume 1, Speyer, 1936
Hans Ammerich : The Diocese of Speyer and its history , Volume 1: From the beginnings to the end of the Salier period (1125) ; Kehl am Rhein 1998; ISBN 3-927095-36-2 . P. 20.
Thieme / Sommer / Wolfe: "The big book of styles", Volume 5, "Die Romanik", Reinhard Welz, Vermittler Verlag eK Mannheim, 2005, ISBN 3-938622-53-9 , scan of the chapter on early Christianity in Speyer

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Franz Xaver Remling : Document book on the history of the bishops of Speyer I , 2
↑ On the murder and veneration of Bishop Theodard ( Memento from November 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Principius	Bishop of Speyer 659–700	Atto

personal data
SURNAME	Dragobodo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tragobodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH	before 659
DATE OF DEATH	after 700

[1] Franz Xaver Remling : Document book on the history of the bishops of Speyer I , 2

[2] On the murder and veneration of Bishop Theodard ( Memento from November 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )