Egbert of Trier

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Fol. 2r of the Codex Egberti : The enthroned Archbishop Egbert von Trier receives the Codex from the Reichenau monks Kerald and Heribert

Egbert von Trier (also Egbert, Count of Holland ; * around 950; † December 8, 993 ) was Archbishop of Trier from 977 to 993 .

Egbert's parents were Count Dietrich II of Holland and Hildegard of Flanders , daughter of Count Arnulf I of Flanders . After his training in Egmond monastery he became chancellor of Otto II in 976. Otto II appointed him in 977 as Archbishop of Trier, in this position he was supposed to secure the interests of the Ottonian Empire. In 983 Egbert attended a court day in Verona . In 984 he joined Heinrich the Quarrel , but in 985 again submitted to imperial violence.

He is known as a promoter of science and art. Under Egbert , there was a very productive scriptorium in Trier, presumably in the St. Maximin Monastery , under whose powers one of the most outstanding illuminators of Ottonian book illumination was the so-called Master of the Registrum Gregorii . In collaboration with this scriptorium, Reichenauer's illuminators created the Codex Egberti for Egbert , an evangelist that Egbert donated to the St. Paulin Abbey in Trier (Trier City Library, Ms. 24). The so-called Egbert Psalter was also produced for Egbert (Cividale, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cod. 136). The so-called Egbert workshop, which is one of the most important goldsmiths workshops of the Ottonian period and is particularly known for its enamels , is also named after Egbert . The main works are the Andreas portable altar, also known as the Egbert Shrine, in the Trier Cathedral Treasury , the Petrus rod , now in the Limburg Cathedral Treasury, and the binding of the Codex aureus Epternacensis (today in the Germanic National Museum ). From the Egbert workshop, which also worked on orders from other princes, as we know from letters that Gerbert von Aurillac wrote to Egbert as secretary to Bishop Adalbero von Reims , the emails on the Otto Mathilden Cross in Essen and the Golden Madonna also come . The Berlin frame and the Servatius cross are also attributed to her, although these two works are controversial. Since no work of Egbert workshop by Egberts death emerged, the research assumes that the Essen abbess Mathilde according Egberts death, took the artisans to Essen where little later with the emails of the lost Marsus shrine and cross with the great Senkschmelzen a Email production is demonstrable.

The Catholic student association Egbert in the KV zu Trier named itself after the bishop and refers to its role as a promoter of art and science.

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Commons : Egbert von Trier  - Collection of Images
predecessor Office successor
Theodoric I. Archbishop of Trier
977–993 		Ludolf
personal data
SURNAME Egbert of Trier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egbert of Holland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bishop
DATE OF BIRTH around 950
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 993
Place of death trier