Gumpert (Münsterschwarzach)

Gumpert († June 13, 1149 ) was abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach from 1142 to 1149 .

Münsterschwarzach before Gumpert

Abbot Gumpert was the seventeenth male abbot to head the Münsterschwarzach monastery. The monastery was settled as a women's abbey as early as the 8th century. It was not until the 9th century that monks came to the Main Abbey. They were brought here by the new masters of the monastery, the Würzburg bishops . Initially, the plan was to apply the Gorze reforms to the crisis-ridden abbey.

This also succeeded under Abbot Egbert , who later became Saint Egbert von Münsterschwarzach, and the monastery flourished. With the beginning of the 12th century, however, the reform efforts began to flag. Other monasteries took up the renovations. The Black Forest Monastery of Hirsau in particular stood out here. Under one of Gumpert's predecessors, Abbot Wolfram, some monks from the monastery reached Münsterschwarzach. Abbot Dietrich I was one of them.

Life

Very little is known about the origins and youth of Abbot Gumpert. The sources are silent about the years before his time as abbot of Münsterschwarzach. Only the year he took office is certain: after the death of Prelate Dietrich I in the middle of 1142, Gumpert succeeded him to the abbot's throne. As with his predecessor, only a few documents have survived in which Gumpert is noted as a witness.

It can be assumed, however, that Gumpert continued the reforms that Hirsau had begun. He also appeared in an exchange document with the Cistercian monastery in Heilsbronn in 1144 and attested a bishop's diploma from the Schlüchtern monastery . Gumpert was last mentioned in a document to the Bamberg Cathedral Chapter from 1148. Abbot Tuto von Theres dedicated a manuscript to him, which he wrote for St. Felizitas. Gumpert died on June 13, 1149.

literature

• Johannes Mahr: Münsterschwarzach. 1200 years of a Franconian abbey . Münsterschwarzach 2002.
• Leo Trunk: The Abbots of Münsterschwarzach. A comparative overview . In: Pirmin Hugger (Ed.): Magna Gratia. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Münsterschwarzach abbey church 1938–1988 . Münsterschwarzach 1992.
• Heinrich Wagner: The abbots of Megingaudshausen and Münsterschwarzach in the Middle Ages . In: Pirmin Hugger (Ed.): Magna Gratia. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Münsterschwarzach abbey church 1938–1988 . Münsterschwarzach 1992.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Corresponding to the death of his predecessor Dietrich I. See: Leo Trunk: The Abbots of Münsterschwarzach . P. 154 f.
2. ^ Johannes Mahr: Münsterschwarzach. 1200 years of a Franconian abbey . P. 18.
3. ^ Heinrich Wagner: The abbots of Münsterschwarzach in the Middle Ages . P. 121.

predecessor	Office	successor
Dietrich I.	Abbot of Münsterschwarzach 1142–1149	Sigehard