Einold

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Einold (also: Eginoid , Ainold , Aginold ) († March 19, 967 (?)) Was Abbot of Gorze and one of the founders of the Gorzer Reform .

Life

He came from a wealthy family. He entered the clergy, became a secular clergyman and rose to the position of archdeacon of Toul .

He increasingly turned to a very ascetic attitude towards life and spirit. He gave up his office and his possessions in order to live as a penitent in a small cell at the cathedral of Toul . With other proponents of a religious renewal from Lorraine, such as the Gorz monk Johannes von Gorze , he initially planned to move to southern Italy. Instead, Bishop Adalbert von Metz persuaded the group to put into practice their ideal of a Christian life modeled on the Rule of Benedict in Gorze Monastery .

Einold and the other world clerics changed their clothes and outwardly became monks. He was elected Abbot of Gorze. At least some of the twenty or so monks still living in Gorze joined the renewed community. Bishop Adalbert improved the material basis by returning estranged monastery property. Pope Leo VII confirmed to him the possessions of Gorze in 938 and granted the monks the right to freely elect abbots in the future.

A kind of division of labor developed between him and his companion Johannes von Gorze. Einold devoted himself mainly to internal reforms, while Johannes took care of external matters. In 948 Einold took part in the Synod of Verdun . Even during his lifetime, the strict monastic life was a model for other communities. In 950 even Pope Agapitus II asked Einold to send some monks to support the reform efforts in Saint Paul Outside the Walls near Rome . At the request of Otto I , Einold sent his deputy Johannes on a diplomatic trip to Muslim Spain in 950.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edeltraud Klueting: Monasteria semper reformanda: Monastery and order reforms in the Middle Ages. Münster, 2005 p. 20
  2. ↑ Leo VII. (RI II, 5) n.145 (Regest RI-online)
  3. ↑ Agapit II. (RI II, 5) n. 223 (Regest RI-online)
  4. ↑ Otto I. (RI II) n.231b (Regest RI-online)

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personal data
SURNAME Einold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Gorze
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 967