Hadamar (abbot)

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Hadamar OSB († May 25, 956 in Fulda ) was Abbot of Fulda and one of the most important ecclesiastical advisers and diplomats of Otto I.

Life

He entered the order of St. Benedict , was ordained a deacon and remained so after his election as abbot. He was first mentioned as a monk of the Fulda monastery in 919.

In December 927 he became abbot . He was the first abbot to be politically active, but this led to the decline of monastic life. He founds an arts and crafts school. Thanks to donations, the monastery property increased considerably under his rule. At the Synod of Erfurt he received royal properties in Abenheim in Wormsgau for possessions in Thuringia and Saxony from King Heinrich I. On October 14, 936 King Otto I confirmed the privileges of the monastery and the possession of Northeim in the Salzgau .

On May 13, 936, he was in Rome . In the same year the privileges of the monastery were confirmed to him by Pope Leo VII . This was confirmed to him on his second trip to Rome by the privilege “Quoniam semper sunt” on March 27, 943 by Pope Marinus II . Due to the fact that he immediately set off for Balgstädt after his return to report to King Otto I on the royal order and to hand him a letter from the Pope, it is assumed that he was also in Rome on royal orders. At the same time, the king confirmed older privileges. Hadamar supported the expansion of the royal church system as a counterbalance to the secular princes. Because Archbishop Friedrich von Mainz was an opponent of this system, he was placed under the supervision of Hadamar for a year in 939. At first he was under house arrest, which was tightened after forbidden correspondence. The treatment left a lasting impression.

On January 2nd, 948 Hadamar stayed in Rome to confirm privileges for the Fulda monastery. Whether he asked for a solution to the dispute about the Archbishop of Reims on behalf of Otto I can only be guessed, possibly Hadamar was the messenger without a name, at whose request the legate Marinus of Bomarzo came to Germany. The fourth visit to Rome in the late summer of 955 took place again in the name of the king and his brother Brun of Cologne , for whom he requested the pallium . He received the pallium for the Archbishop of Cologne , relics of St. Pantaleon and permission to establish dioceses. King Otto had long wanted to move the seat of the Halberstadt diocese to Magdeburg and raise it to the status of an archdiocese for other missionary dioceses in the east. His son Wilhelm , Archbishop of Mainz , was against this plan because he would lose his suffragan Halberstadt and the possibility of expanding his influence to the east. Wilhelm was able to stop the construction despite papal confirmation. When Hadamar pushed the matter further behind Wilhelm's back, Wilhelm complained in a letter to Pope Agapitus II. Shortly afterwards, the archbishop died.

Hademar died of the plague on May 25, 956 in Fulda . He was buried in the west choir of the Fulda monastery church next to the crypt of St. Boniface .

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  1. ↑ Regest II, 5, No. 214 ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Regesta Imperii, cf. also No. 215f. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regesta-imperii.de
  2. ↑ cf. Regest II, 5, No. 218 ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Regesta Imperii @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regesta-imperii.de
predecessor Office successor
Hildebert Abbot of Fulda
927-956 		Hatto II.
personal data
SURNAME Hadamar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hadamaro Fuldensi; Adhemar; Ademaro; Adimaro; Hadamaro; Hadamarus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Fulda, Cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 956
Place of death Fulda