Gozbald

Gozbald or Gozbaldus or Gauzbaldus († September 20, 855 ) was the sixth abbot of Niederaltaich monastery in Lower Bavaria from 825 , from 842 to 855 bishop of Würzburg at the instigation of King Ludwig II and from 830 to 833 head of the king's office.

Nothing certain is known about the ancestry of the Gozbald. A relationship with Hariolf, who founded the Ellwangen monastery in 764 , mentions his vita , which, however, has only survived in a revision from the 12th century.

Even before his tenure as Bishop of Würzburg, he furnished his own church in Ochsenfurt with several relics . Shortly before his death, the Würzburg Cathedral was destroyed by lightning. The reconstruction began under his successor Arn.

literature

Alfred Wendehorst: Germania Sacra. Historical-statistical description of the Church of the Old Empire , Part 1, Berlin Verlag Walter de Gruyter , ISBN 3-11-001291-X , * pages 42–46
Peter Kolb, Ernst-Günther Krenig (Ed.): Lower Franconian history . Volume 1: From the Germanic conquest to the high Middle Ages . Echter, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 3-429-01263-5 , pp. 163-164.

Web links

Gozbaldus abbas Altahensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

Gozbald in the personal register of Germania Sacra online

predecessor	Office	successor
Hunbert	Bishop of Würzburg 842–855	Arn

personal data
SURNAME	Gozbald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gozbaldus; Gauzbaldus; Gozbaldus abbas Altahensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbot of Niederaltaich, Bishop of Würzburg, Head of the Chancellery of Ludwig the German
DATE OF BIRTH	before 825
DATE OF DEATH	September 20, 855