Egward

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Egward (Latin Egwardus ) was the first bishop of Oldenburg from around 968/972 to around 973.

Life

Egward was probably a monk in Hirsau . At an unknown time, Archbishop Adaldag of Hamburg consecrated him as the first bishop in the Slavic diocese of Oldenburg . No further information about him has come down to us.

Egward may have died on a February 13th.

literature

  • Johann Martin Lappenberg : About the chronology of the older bishops of the diocese of the Archdiocese of Hamburg . In: Archive of the Society for Older German History , 9, 1847, p. 388f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicon von Hirsau , op. 965, told of a monk Egwardus, who became Bishop of Schleswig (?) In 965; see. Lappenberg, p. 389
  2. ↑ Adam von Bremen, Hamburgische Kirchengeschichte , II, 14 and 24, in: Bernhard Schmeidler (Ed.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 2: Adam von Bremen, Hamburgische Kirchengeschichte (Magistri Adam Bremensis Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum). Hannover 1917, p. 72 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitalisat ), p. 86, German in II, 14 and 24
  3. ↑ The Necrologium von Möllenbeck named a bishop Ecwardus for this day, cf. Lappenberg, p. 388
personal data
SURNAME Egward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egwardus (Latin); Ecwardus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first bishop of the Slavic diocese of Oldenburg (around 968/972 to around 973)
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: around 973