Giselbert of Admont

Giselbert von Admont († October 1, 1101, presumably in Jerusalem ) was originally a monk of the Hirsau monastery , then abbot of the Reinhardsbrunn monastery ; he was appointed abbot of the Admont Monastery , where he worked from 1091 to 1101.

In 1091, Archbishop Thiemo of Salzburg , who had been Abbot of St. Peter before his episcopal ordination - as Profess of Niederaltaich - appointed the monk Giselbert as Abbot of Admont. Abbot Giselbert was remembered by Thiemo from a meeting in Hirsau , where he had fled into exile as abbot of St. Peter loyal to the Pope. At the time of his appointment to Admont he was Abbot of Reinhardsbrunn.

We know little about his reign. To what extent he can be seen as the founder of the Admont monastery reform is controversial. In Jakob Wichner's great history of the monastery, there is only one reference to the fact that Giselbert had farmers who had settled near the monastery relocated to the Paltental, because he "considered this fact to be detrimental to monastic breeding". With Archbishop Thiemo he took part in the first crusade and died on October 1, 1101 in Jerusalem.

literature

• Jakob Wichner: History of the Benedictine monastery Admont, Vol. 1 (From the oldest times to the year 1177) . Admont 1874, pp. 51-63
• Thomas Stellwag: The importance of the Benedictine Abbey Admont for the spread of the Hirsauer Reform in the southern German-Austrian region (Admonter Reform) . Admont 1999, pp. 27-32
• Klaus Arnold: Admont and the monastic reform of the 12th century , in: M. Kaser u. a. (Ed.): Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History , Vol. 89 (Canonical Department LVIII) . Weimar 1972, pp. 350-355
• Romuald Bauerreiß : St. Georgen in the Black Forest, a reform center of southeast Germany in the beginning of the 12th century , in: Bayerische Benediktinerakademie (ed.): Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches , vol. 51 . Munich 1933, p. 196
• Kassius Hallinger: Gorze-Kluny. Studies on the Monastic Life Forms and Opposites in the High Middle Ages, Vol. 1 and 2 . Graz 1971, pp. 386-388
• Helmut Mezler-Andelberg: Admont and the monastery reform at the beginning of the 12th century , in: Ferdinand Tremel (ed.): Journal of the historical association for Styria, 47th year Graz 1956, pp. 33–36
• Eberhard Demm: Reform monasticism and Slavic mission in the 12th century. Investigations in the sociology of values ​​and the history of ideas on the lives of Bishop Otto von Bamberg (= historical studies, vol. 419) . Lübeck / Hamburg 1970, p. 25
• Johann Tomaschek: St. Georgen and the “Admonter Reform”. The relationship between the Black Forest monastery and the Styrian Benedictine Abbey of Admont in the 12th century , in: Stadt St. Georgen (ed.): 900 years city of St. Georgen in the Black Forest (1084-1984) . St. Georgen 1984, pp. 35-36

predecessor	Office	successor
Isingrim	Abbot of Admont Abbey 1091–1101	Wecilo