Fulrad
Fulrad (* around 710 in Andaldovillare (today Saint-Hippolyte ) in Alsace; † July 16, 784 in Saint-Denis ) was a Benedictine, abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Denis and one of the most influential personalities of the second half of the 8th century.
Fulrad's parents Riculf and Ermengard had rich estates in the Moselle and Maas area; Close relationships between the family and other families of the Franconian aristocracy, including the Guidons , are proven. Fulrad himself is mentioned for the first time in the year 749 , but at that time already belongs to the most important advisers of Pippin the Younger : From Pippin, at that time still Hausmeier , Fulrad is sent to Pope Zacharias together with Bishop Burkard of Würzburg for the removal of the Merovingian Childerich III. and to achieve the installation of Pippin as the new Frankish king.
After the successful mission, Fulrad received the important Saint-Denis Abbey in 750, probably as a thank you to Pippins, and in 751 was appointed head of the court chapel . In addition, he was still involved in diplomatic activities, so he negotiated in 756 the transfer of the Exarchate of Ravenna to the Holy See and remained the liaison of the Franconian kings to the Pope. Hadrian I gave him the title of Archipresbian Franciae and made him primate of the Frankish clergy.
In 752 he is attested in royal service together with Count Ruthard . From Ruthard he acquired property in Breisgau , which actually belonged to the Reich. The "Adelungcella" ( Hoppetenzell ) was given to him by Adalung , Bishop of Eichstätt.
Fulrad is also said to have participated in the missionary work of the Saxons . It is believed that the monks of Abbot Fulrad von St-Denis and the abbot himself evangelized in Lerigau around 777 .
As abbot of Saint-Denis, he succeeded in regaining lost possessions of the monastery and gaining new territories, and by founding numerous monasteries and cells in the Alsatian and southern Baden region, he increased the importance of Saint-Denis: among other things, on his initiative the Monasteries in Lièpvre , Salonnes , St. Pilt (today Saint-Hippolyte ) and Esslingen am Neckar , possibly also Schwäbisch Gmünd . He has also established relationships with Bavarian monasteries such as Tegernsee , Salzburg and Schäftlarn .
In his will, he bequeathed his enormous property in Alsace, but also in Swabia and Rome, to the monastery of Saint-Denis.
literature
- Arno Duch: Fulrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 728 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Josef Fleckenstein: Fulrad of Saint-Denis and the Franconian attack in southern Germany . In: G. Tellenbach (ed.): Studies and preliminary work on the history of the Greater Franconian and early German nobility . Freiburg i. Br. 1957, pp. 9-39.
- Josef Fleckenstein: Fulrad, Abbot of St-Denis . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 4, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-8904-2 , Sp. 1024 f.
- Josef Fleckenstein: Fulrad . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3 (1995), col. 1024f.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Borgolte , The Counts of Alemannia in Merovingian and Carolingian times. A prosopography , 1986
- ↑ Bernd Hucker : Fulrad, the Apostle of Lerigaus ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lecture given at the invitation of the Barnstorf Heimatverein in the Meyer-Köster-Haus on March 22, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fulrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fulrade |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbot of Saint-Denis |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 710 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Andaldovillare (now Saint-Hippolyte ), Alsace |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 784 |
| Place of death | Saint-Denis |