Diego Gelmírez
Diego Gelmírez (* probably around 1069 , † 1140 ) was the first archbishop of Santiago de Compostela .
Life
Diego Gelmírez was the son of a Galician nobleman who was posted to Iria Flavia to defend the coast against the Normans . After basic training at the Cathedral School in Santiago de Compostela , Gelmírez studied humanities and began a career in the clergy as a canon . It developed so quickly that in 1096 he took over the administration of the bishop-free Compostelan diocese . He was ordained bishop in 1101 and archbishop in 1124.
Diego Gelmírez initiated various processes or continued them with great energy. This included constitutional actions on a grand scale as well as the organization of the defense against the Normans and the permanent increase of his influence in Rome . He worked successfully towards the appointment of Santiago to the archbishopric . He was also the mentor of the future King of Castile and León, Alfonso VII .
The Historia Compostellana , the first compostelan diocese history , was written at Gelmírez's order . The most important testimony of Bishop Diego Gelmírez's work, which can still be viewed today, is the cathedral in Santiago , the construction of which his predecessor Diego Pelayez had begun. Gelmírez drove its construction with great energy. In 1120 Santiago became the seat of archbishopric and Archbishop Diego Gelmirez was appointed papal legate.
His temporary excommunication and an uprising of the Compostelan citizens in 1117, in which the north portal of the cathedral went up in flames and was completely destroyed , show that so much energetic activity did not always meet with approval .
See also
literature
- Anselm Gordon Biggs: Diego Gelmirez, first archbishop of Compostela. , Washington, DC, Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1949 (dissertation)
- Helmut Domke: Northern Spain . Prestel, Munich 1973, ISBN 3791302809
- RA Fletcher: Saint James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmirez of Santiago De Compostela , Clarendon Press 1984, ISBN 0198225814
- Rolf Legler: Star Road and Pilgrimage, The Jacob's Cult of Santiago de Compostela. Truth and forgery , Gustav Lübbe Verlag 1999, Bergisch Gladbach, ISBN 3-7857-0976-5
- Ludwig Vones: The "Historia Compostellana" and the church politics of the north-western Spanish area: 1070 - 1130; a contribution to the history of relations between Spain and the papacy at the beginning of the 12th century. Cologne; Vienna: Böhlau 1980, ISBN 3-412-02380-9
- Compostela and Europe. The Story of Diego Gelmírez , Skira, Milano 2010, ISBN 978-88-572-0493-2
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gelmírez, Diego |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gelmírez, Diego Archbishop |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1069 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1140 |