Emmehard

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Emmehard († 1155 in Central Germany) was the second verifiable Mecklenburg bishop after Johannes Scotus .

Life

After a vacant time of 80 years, Hartwig I. von Stade , the archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen, attempted to introduce a new bishop into the diocese of Mecklenburg with a bishopric in Mickelenburg near Wismar . On October 10, 1149 in Harsefeld near Stade he consecrated the priest Vicelin von Aldenburg for Oldenburg and for Mecklenburg Emmehard as bishops and sent them to the land of poverty and hunger, where the seat of Satan and the dwelling of all unclean spirits were . Since the bishop's consecration day was then a Monday, according to the liturgical practice of the Church it would be more correct to accept October 9, 1149 as the consecration day. In another unconfirmed source, September 25, 1149 is given.

Because of the secular arm's refusal to invest , the new bishop apparently had conscience concerns, so that he could hardly work in his diocese. Emmehard stayed mostly outside the country, so he was with King Friedrich in Merseburg on May 18, 1152 and with Bishop Wichmann in Naumburg on March 8, 1154. Since the Mecklenburg bishop Emmehard was only mentioned in Central German traditions in 1152, 1154 and 1155 , he does not seem to have gotten to the seat at all ... as can be seen from the German translation of a document from the Pforta monastery .

It was reported that Emmehard had faithfully presided over his office and administered the same through sermons and baptisms and worked with great effort on the confession of the Wends and brought many of them to the Christian faith through his provision, but otherwise led an exemplary apostolic change . Occasionally Bishop Emmehard was also referred to as a monk, as he referred to himself as a frater to Abbot Wibald von Corvey , but he could also be called a confrere.

The erring and struggling bishop is said to have died somewhere in Central Germany in 1155, the date of his death and the place of burial are unknown. His own documents have not survived either and his seal does not exist.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Emmehard . In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania . 2011.
  • Jürgen Petersohn : Emmehard of Mecklenburg and Heinrich the lion. In: Johannes Fried , Otto Gerhard Oexle : Heinrich the lion. Dominion and representation (= lectures and research. Volume 57). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-6657-0 ( digitized version ).
  • Jürgen Petersohn: Emmehard . In: Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg . 2004, pp. 48-53.
  • Grete Grewolls: Emmehard . In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania . 1995, p. 117.
  • Joseph Traeger: Emmehard, 1149–1155 . In: The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin . Leipzig 1984, pp. 18-19.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch (MUB) Volume I. (1863) No. 49.
  2. ↑ according to Traeger or Harzfeld according to Grewolls
  3. ^ Alfred Rische: Directory of the bishops and canons of Schwerin. Ludwigslust 1900, p. 11.
  4. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 49.
  5. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 54.
  6. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 55. Emerhardus Michelenburgensis
  7. ↑ Document book of the Hochstift Naumburg I. (1925), 194 No. 216.
  8. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 55.
  9. ↑ MUB IV. (1867) No. 2653.
  10. ^ Julius Wiggers : Church history Mecklenburg . Parchim / Ludwigslust 1840, p. 36.
  11. ↑ MUB IV. (1867) No. 60. Emmerhard, Bishop of Mecklenburg, dies .
personal data
SURNAME Emmehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH 1155
Place of death Central Germany