Heddo

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Heddo (also Eddo, Adda, Addae, Eddanus, Haeddo) (* around 697 ; † March 8, 776 ) was bishop of Strasbourg from 734 and previously abbot of the Reichenau monastery .

Heddo, who came from the Alemannic nobility, worked as a missionary in the vicinity of Bonifatius and Pirmin . In 727 Pirmin appointed him abbot of the important Reichenau monastery that he had founded. Under Heddo, branches in Niederaltaich , Murbach and Pfäfers were founded from Reichenau . 732 Duke Theudebald exiled Heddo to Uri . Karl Martell took him back and sat him on the bishop's seat of Strasbourg, about which there had been a dispute between Franks and Alemanni. In his new role, Heddo founded the monasteries Ettenheimmünster and Münster in the Gregoriental , which he also headed as abbot. At the Franconian Synod of Boniface in March 747 as well as at the Synod of Attigny in 762 and at the Concilium Germanicum of April 21, 742, Heddo acted as a mediator between Boniface and Pirmin on the one hand and Chrodegang von Metz on the other. He was buried in Ettenheim Munster.

In his will from the year 762, Heddo confirmed to the Ettenheimmünster monastery that it owned its former property on which it was founded. This document, which was often used as evidence for the first mention of places, is, however, a forgery from the beginning of the 12th century, at least in the form available today. This is a copy from the 17th century based on a Vidimus from 1457, which refers to a copy from 1121. The founding of the monastery in his name is also documented in Hermann the Lame's in his chronicle.

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  1. Hansmartin Schwarzmaier : The monasteries of the Ortenau and their convents in Carolingian times. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins Vol. 119 (1971), or NF 80 (1971), pp. 1–31, here: pp. 4 f., Full text (PDF; 2.5 MB) at Monumenta Germaniae Historica
predecessor Office successor
Pirminius Abbot of Reichenau
727-734
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