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Erlebald (* before 790; † February 13, 847 ) was abbot of the Reichenau monastery from 823 to 838 .

Live and act

Erlebald came from a Swabian count family and was a nephew of Abbot Waldo . He came to Reichenau Monastery as a monk around 790 and was initially a pupil of Abbot Haito before he sent him to the court school of Charlemagne in Aachen , where he was presumably taught by Clemens of Ireland . After his return to Reichenau Abbey, he became a close confidante of Abbot Haito, whom he also accompanied on his diplomatic trip to Byzantium in 811 . After Haito resigned his office in 823, Erlebald was unanimously elected as the new abbot by the Reichenau convent members.

During its abatement , the convent reached its highest level. Erlebald was particularly keen to expand the monastery library and had the fraternization book of Reichenau Abbey created . He commissioned one of his monks to write down the history of the founding of the neighboring monastery , whereupon relics of St. Genesius were transferred to the monastery in Reichenau. Furthermore, under Abbot Erlebald, the cross basilica built by Haito was supplemented by a west transept with a double tower facade .

Soon Ratold refused the wish to settle in the cell founded by Egino von Verona on the western tip of Reichenau and instead assigned him a place on the opposite bank of Lake Constance , where Ratold built a church and a monastery cell, from which the town of Radolfzell later emerged . In the year 830 Abbot Erlebald received relics of St. Mark the Evangelist from Ratold , but these were initially passed off as those of St. Valens.

In 838 Erlebald resigned from his office. What could have caused him to resign is unclear. Presumably he wanted to anticipate the decision of Louis the Pious to appoint Walahfrid Strabo as abbot by enabling the convention to exercise its right to freely elect an abbot through his resignation. His confreres then appointed Ruadhelm , a follower of Ludwig the German , to be Erlebald's successor, while Ludwig the Pious at the same time appointed Walahfrid as abbot on the Reichenau, who was initially unable to assert himself against Ruadhelm.

literature

• Konrad Beyerle : From the foundation to the end of the baronial monastery (724-1427) . In: Konrad Beyerle (ed.): The culture of the Reichenau Abbey. Commemorative pamphlet for the twelve hundredth anniversary of the founding year of the island monastery 724–1924 . 1st subband. Verlag der Münchner Drucke, Munich 1925, pp. 85–92.
• Veronika Feller-Vest: Adventure soon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Roland Rappmann, Alfons Zettler: The Reichenau monk community and their commemoration of the dead in the early Middle Ages ( archeology and history 5). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1998, ISBN 3-7995-7355-0 , pp. 296-297.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Veronika Feller-Vest: Erlebald. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
2. ^ Konrad Beyerle: From the foundation to the end of the baronial monastery (724-1427) . In: Konrad Beyerle (ed.): The culture of the Reichenau Abbey. Commemorative pamphlet for the twelve hundredth anniversary of the founding year of the island monastery 724–1924 . 1st subband. Verlag der Münchner Drucke, Munich 1925, p. 86.
3. ^ Art. Reichenau , in: Franz Quarthal (arr.): Benedictine monasteries in Baden-Württemberg ( Germania Benedictina ; 5). Winfried-Werk, Augsburg 1975, pp. 503-548, here p. 505.
4. ^ Walter Berschin: Charles the Bald as Duke of Alemannia (829-833). The trail of literature . In: Euphrosyne 38 (2010), p. 388. ( digitized version )
5. ^ Eduard Hlawitschka: Ratold, Bishop of Verona and founder of Radolfzell . In: Hegau 54/55 (1997/98), pp. 5-44, here pp. 6 and pp. 20-21.
6. ↑ Roland Rappmann, Alfons Zettler: The Reichenau monk community and their commemoration of the dead in the early Middle Ages ( archeology and history 5). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1998, ISBN 3-7995-7355-0 , pp. 296-297.

predecessor	Office	successor
Haito	Abbot of Reichenau 823-838	Ruadhelm