Egbert of Trier
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.
literature
- Leopold von Eltester : Ekbert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 784 f.
- Martin Persch : Egbert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 509-510.
- Franz J. Ronig (Ed.): Egbert - Archbishop of Trier 977–993. Commemorative writing of the Diocese of Trier on the 1000th anniversary of death. 2 volumes. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Trier 1993, ISBN 3-923319-27-4
- Mathilde Uhlirz: Egbert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 320 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Article in the Catholic Encyclopia (English)
- Egbert in the portal Rheinische Geschichte
- Egbert in the Saarland biographies
- Egbert von Trier in the personal register of the Germania Sacra online
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Theodoric I. |
Archbishop of Trier 977–993 |
Ludolf |
personal data | |
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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 |