Halitgar from Cambrai

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Halitgar of Cambrai (Fr .: Halitgaire ; lat .: Halitgarius ; * before 817 ; † 830 or 831 ) was bishop of Cambrai in what is now northern France from 817 until his death . He is known as the apostle of the Danes and as the author of a book of penance that was widely used in the Middle Ages.

In the year 822 or 823 he traveled with Archbishop Ebo of Reims and Bishop Willerich of Bremen to Denmark to begin the northern mission sponsored by Emperor Ludwig the Pious and Pope Paschalis . However, this work was not crowned with much immediate success. In 823 he consecrated the church and the relics of St. Ursmar (Ursmer) in Lobbes Abbey in Hainaut . In 825 he and Amalarius von Metz brought the resolutions of the Paris synod on iconoclasm to Louis the Pious. In 828 he traveled to Byzantium as the envoy of Emperor Louis the Pious .

In 829 he took part in the Paris Synod, which spoke out against the use of inadequate books of penance. Archbishop Ebo of Reims then commissioned him to compile a new penal book, which was binding for the entire metropolitan area of ​​Reims, on the basis of the teachings of the church fathers , in order to put an end to the confusion in the use of the traditional penal books. He then wrote the work: De vitiis et virtutibus et ordine poenitentialium (previously attributed to Rabanus Maurus ). The task was difficult, because the form of discipline and penance on which the Celtic books of penance popular at the time were based were unknown to the Church Fathers. Halitgar completed his work in 830.

He died in 830 or 831. His successor as Bishop of Cambrai was Theodoric (Dietrich).

literature

  • Halitgar . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 7 . Altenburg 1859, p. 874 ( zeno.org ).
  • Josef Raith (Hrsg.): The old English version of Halitgar'schen Bussbuch. (So-called Poenitentiale Pseudo-Ecgberti). 2nd, corrected and supplemented edition with a new foreword. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1964.
  • Raymund Kottje : The penitential books of Halitgar from Cambrai and Hrabanus Maurus. Their tradition and sources (= contributions to the history and source studies of the Middle Ages. 8). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1980, ISBN 3-11-007666-7 (At the same time: Bonn, University, habilitation paper, 1965).
  • Raimund Kottje: Halitgar from Cambrai . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 4, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-8904-2 , Sp. 1876 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rosamond McKitterick : The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987. Longman, London et al. 1983, ISBN 0-582-49005-7 , p. 133.
  2. ^ Samuel Macauley Jackson (ed.): The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Volume 5: Goar - Innocent. 3rd edition. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids MI 1953, p. 122 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Bauer:  THEODERICH I., Hl., Bisch. from Cambrai. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 836-839.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
predecessor Office successor
Hildwart Bishop of Cambrai
817 - 830 		Lockpick
personal data
SURNAME Halitgar from Cambrai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halitgarius episcopus Cameracensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Cambrai in what is now northern France
DATE OF BIRTH before 817
DATE OF DEATH 830 or 831