Guttorm

Guttorm († February 6, 1224 ) was elected Archbishop of Nidaros in autumn 1214 or the following winter . He succeeded Tore Gudmundsson . Annals refer to him as an abbot . Almost nothing is known about him from before 1214.

With a letter of April 19, 1213 Innocent III. Gates called to a council in Rome that was to take place on November 1st, 1215 . Guttorm used this trip to obtain his pallium . He set out in the spring of 1215, probably together with Bishop Nicholas from the diocese “Man and the Islands” (that was the Isle of Man and the Hebrides ) to the south. He probably received the pallium before the council. In any case, it was consecrated in 1215. During the council there was also a call for a crusade. The Pope confirmed the peace of Kvitsøy, which ended the civil war between Birkebeinern and Baglers in Norway .

Guttorm held at least two church synods (1218 and 1223) in connection with the king's diets in Bergen . The first synod also dealt with the reintroduction of the St. Peter's penny , which, despite various warnings from the Pope in the past, was probably not paid because of the civil war. From a papal letter of 1220 or 1221 it can be seen that Guttorm had deposited the Rome tax in the monastery of St. Victor near Paris, from where he was then transported to Rome. The second synod was the largest in Norway to date. The bishops also came from the Faroe Islands and the Orkneys . At the parallel Reichstag, the archbishop announced the legality of the kingship of Håkon Håkonssons , which had been questioned because of his descent, which had not previously been unequivocally proven. For this, he and his successors received the coin shelf in gratitude from the king in 1222 . This Reichstag, which had also come about at the instigation of the archbishop, strengthened the position of the archbishop considerably: it opened the Reichstag and also closed it. His decision about the real descent of the king and its binding proclamation at the Reichstag shows the growing influence of the church on the Reichstag and in questions of succession to the throne. During this time the Christ Church in Nidaros became a spiritual center of Norway, through which all major religious movements and thought processes of the mainland in the Norwegian Church had an influence.

After Guttorm's death, Sigurd, Abbot of Tautra, was elected as his successor, but was not accepted by the Pope because both King Håkon Håkonsson and Bishop Nikolas Arnason of Stavanger spoke out against him.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letter from the cathedral chapter of Nidaros to Pope Honorius III. Regesta Norvegica Vol. 1 No. 483.
2. ↑ Joint letter from the king and bishop to the Pope Regesta Norvegica vol. 1 no. 487.

literature

• Narve Bjørgo: Article Guttorm in Norsk biografisk leksikon , accessed on March 13, 2011.

predecessor	Office	successor
Tore Gudmundsson	Archbishop of Nidaros 1215-1224	Peter Brynjulfsson