Erkanbald

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Seal stamp of Archbishop Erkanbald, slate, around 1011. Joint ownership of the Museum of Hamburg History and the Focke Museum Bremen.

Erkanbald OSB , also Erchanbald , (* before 982; † August 17, 1021 ) was abbot of Fulda from 997 to 1011 and archbishop of Mainz from 1011 until his death . He is buried in the Mainz Johanniskirche , the "old cathedral".

Erkanbald came from the family of the Counts of Ölsburg and was related to Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim . His parents are unknown, he was born perhaps around 967, because he was around 30 years old when he became abbot. As abbot and later as archbishop he supported Emperor Heinrich II , to whom he owed the appointment as Archbishop of Mainz. According to the testimony of Vita Godehardi (c. 25), Bernward von Hildesheim consecrated the bishop on April 1, 1011. Erchanbald had supported this in turn in the dispute over Gandersheim against Archbishop Willigis of Mainz.

As Abbot of Fulda, Erchanbald supported Heinrich in 1002 and 1003 on the Middle Rhine and in Franconia. In 1007 he supported the establishment of the diocese of Bamberg . In 1008 he again sided with Heinrich in the Luxembourg feud .

Apparently he did not receive the Italian Arch Chancellery of his immediate predecessor Willigis from Heinrich II. Several times he appears as an intervener in the emperor's documents, and he consecrated the bishops of Verden and Prague to his ecclesiastical province of Mainz . In 1013/14 he took part in the Romzug , after which he supported the emperor in implementing the reform in Fulda. He also supported the emperor in politics in Lower Lorraine and towards Poland.

In questions of canon law he tended towards the Gorzer reform . In the Hammerstein marriage dispute , Erkanbald helped to ensure that Count Otto had to separate from his wife Irmingard (1018). Before his death, Erchanbald elevated Heilig-Kreuz, formerly St. Maria auf dem Felde (Sanct Maria in Campis), to a collegiate monastery.

In 1991 a slate find was identified as the archbishop's seal stamp .

In June 2019, a sarcophagus was opened by archaeologists in the Mainz Johanniskirche. The examinations showed that the corpse inside was Archbishop Erkanbald. There were clues, one follows the restorer Anja Bayer, a chasuble made of blue-dyed silk, which ended with a gold braid on the neck of the deceased. On the chasuble, in turn, there was a piece of wool that was a pallium . The dead man also wore pontifical shoes . These parts of clothing were only available to the highest clergy, especially bishops. Studies by the anthropologist Carola Berszin showed that the 1.82 m tall, 40 to 60 year old man weighed around 70 kg, and that he suffered from gout in his feet and ankylosing spondylitis . Why he was upside down in the coffin is unclear. Genetic tests are to be carried out in Bolzano .

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  1. ^ Vita Godehardi of Wolfhere. In: MGH, Scriptores 11. p. 185 , accessed on June 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Maria im Felde Monastery - Holy Cross
  3. ^ Andreas Röpcke and Alfred Löhr: Archbishop Erkanbalds Siegel in: Jahrbuch für Westdeutsche Landesgeschichte 17, 1991, pp. 43–51.
  4. ↑ Julia Sloboda: The sarcophagus in St. John's Church contains the corpse of the Archbishop. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. November 14, 2019, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Gisela Kirschstein: It's Erkanbald - Final report on the sarcophagus in the Johanniskirche confirms identity as archbishop , in: Mainz &, November 14, 2019.
predecessor Office successor
Hatto III. Abbot of Fulda
997-1011 		Branthoh II.
Willigis Archbishop of Mainz
1011-1021 		Aribo
personal data
SURNAME Erkanbald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erchanbald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH before 982
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1021