Egino (abbot)

Egino or Egon (* around 1065 probably in Augsburg ; † July 15, 1120 in Pisa ) was a monk and later an important Reform Abbot (1109–1120) at the Benedictine monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg.

Egino is Old High German and means "sword" and "fighter".

Life

Given to the Benedictine monks of St. Ulrich and Afra at a young age, he was educated there and entered the monastery as a monk in 1080. Because he had taken sides for the Pope and against his bishop in the investiture dispute (1075–1122), which had also affected his monastery, he had to leave Augsburg in 1098. He entered the Black Forest Monastery of St. Blasien , where he perfected his education and served the Bishop of Constance Gebhard III. (1084-1110) entered. After the latter was able to return to his bishopric (1105), Egino retired to a monastery. This monastery, which does not name the Egino "biography" of the monk and later abbot Udalschalk , is identified with St. Georgen on the basis of the Augsburg abbot mentioned in the Vita Theogeri , the biography of St. Georgen's abbot Theoger (Egino) who, with the help of Theogers (1088–1119), reformed monastic life in St. Afra. This is said to have happened in the year 1109, i.e. when Egino was appointed abbot, but historical research also discusses the year 1113, when Egino demonstrably appeared (in Theoger's entourage?) At the second consecration of the monastery church in St. Peter the Black Forest . In 1106 Egino returned to Augsburg, where he was elected Abbot of St. (Ulrich and) Afra in 1109 . As abbot, Egino took care of the restoration of monastery breeding in Ortisei and Afra, but repeatedly had disputes with the Augsburg bishop Hermann von Vohburg (1096–1133). The latter mostly sided with the king in the investiture controversy. In 1118 or 1120 Egino was expelled from his monastery. He therefore traveled to Rome to consult with Pope Kalixt II and died on July 15, 1120 on his return journey in Pisa in the Camaldolese monastery of St. Michele, where his grave is still preserved.

His successor Udalschalk (1127 - after 1151) reports in detail about Egino in his book "About Egino and Hermann" ( De Egino et Herimanno ).

Egino is shown in monk's clothing chasing the devil to flight. The name day for Egino or Egon is July 15.

literature

• Michael Buhlmann: St. Georgen as the reform center of Benedictine monasticism (= sources on the medieval history of St. George, part VIII = Vertex Alemanniae, no.20). Association for local history, St. Georgen 2005, OCLC 180904810 , p. 26 ff.
• N. Hörberg: Libri Sanctae Afrae. St. Ulrich and Afra zu Augsburg in the 11th and 12th centuries based on testimonies from the monastery library (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History, vol. 74). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 3-525-35389-8 , pp. 256-264, 278-287.
• Uodalschalcus: De Egino et Herimanno . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 12: Historiae aevi Salici. Hanover 1856, pp. 429–448 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )

Web links

• Egino von Augsburg in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints