Evergis

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Evergis († September 28, 1178 ) was bishop of Paderborn from 1160 until his death .

Life

Evergis came from an unknown family. At the time of his election as bishop he was canon in Paderborn . Even as an Elekt , he confirmed the foundation of the Hardehausen Monastery through his predecessor Bernhard I von Oesede . As a bishop he made a particular contribution to the internal expansion of his area. So he had the forest cleared around the episcopal property Herstelle in order to settle farmers there. In 1163 he called a meeting of Saxon secular and ecclesiastical princes, attended by Duke Heinrich the Lion . A year later he participated together with Archbishop Rainald von Dassel , Bishops Friedrich II. Von Are and Werner von Minden under the command of Henry the Lion in the punitive action against Count Heinrich von Arnsberg , in the course of which Arnsberg Castle was destroyed. During his reign in 1165, there was a big fire in Paderborn. The Abdinghof monastery was also destroyed. In 1168, Emperor Friedrich I ordered the bishops, who were often more secular than spiritual, that the unconsecrated bishops had to be ordained. Evergis was among them. In 1170 Evergis consecrated the Bredelar Monastery . This was politically in the domain of the Archbishop of Cologne, the later Duchy of Westphalia , but ecclesiastically it still belonged to the Diocese of Paderborn. Around the same time, a meeting of Saxon princes took place in Paderborn. When violent clashes broke out between supporters and opponents of Henry the Lion after 1175, Evergis was also involved.

During his time as bishop Reinher von Paderborn published his work Computus emendatus for the improvement of the calendar calculation at the Paderborn Cathedral School in 1171 . Reinher was the first in Western Europe to use the decimal system and Indo-Arabic number representations.

literature

  • H. Leo: Lectures on the history of the German people and empire. Vol. 5, Halle 1867, p. 620
  • Peter Florens Weddigen (ed.): Paderborn history. According to Schaten's annals. First part, first section. Lemgo 1801, pp. 168-174

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Herold: Biography Reinher of Paderborn , at School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland
predecessor Office successor
Bernhard I of Oesede Bishop of Paderborn
1160–1178 		Siegfried
personal data
SURNAME Evergis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Paderborn
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1178