Heribert of Cologne

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Statue of Heribert on the Cologne town hall tower . Right: Bruno I. (Photo: 2009)

Heribert (* around 970 in Worms ; † March 16, 1021 in Cologne ) was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne from 999 to 1021 .

origin

Relationships with the widely ramified Konradin family were assumed based on the ownership structure and common first names. The property of his father Hugo, who presumably came from the count , was mainly in Worms and Einrichgau . Heribert's maternal half-brother was Bishop Heinrich von Würzburg . Another brother was Count Gezemann in Werngau . The two Eichstätter bishops Heribert (1022-1042) and Gezemann (1042) were sons of Count Gezemann in Werngau and thus Heribert's nephews.

Live and act

Heribert's education began in the cathedral school in Worms and was continued in the Gorze Abbey . After his training he became provost of the cathedral in Worms. Brun von Kärnten, who later became Pope Gregory V , attended the Worms Cathedral School around the same time as Heribert .

The Bishop of Worms and Imperial Chancellor for "Germania" , Hildebold , introduced Heribert to the imperial court. In 994 King Otto III. Heribert as Chancellor of Imperial Italy . This was the first time that a later emperor transferred this office to a German . He was ordained a priest in 995 . Three years later, after Hildebold's death in 998, Heribert was taken over by Emperor Otto III. appointed Chancellor of Germania. For the first time, both offices were united in one hand . In this position, Heribert was one of the main promoters of the concept of the Renovatio imperii Romanorum ('Renewal of the Roman Empire').

In 999 he was elected Archbishop of Cologne by the cathedral chapter while on the second Italian campaign . The election was confirmed by both the emperor and the pope on July 9, 999. As Archbishop of Cologne, he also retained the two chancellery offices of the East Frankish-German Empire . He was consecrated at Christmas 999 in the Old Cologne Cathedral , before, it is said, he had moved humbly and barefoot into Cologne.

In the presence of the new Archbishop of Cologne, the Charles grave in Aachen was opened by Emperor Otto III. open. He was also there when Emperor Otto III. died in January 1002 at Paterno Castle. He transferred the emperor's body and the imperial insignia to Aachen under heavy fighting. He had sent the Holy Lance to the hands of Count Palatine Ezzo .

In the king's election of 1002 , Heribert supported Duke Hermann II of Swabia from the Conradin family. However, this could not prevail, so that Heinrich II. Successor to Otto III. has been. Even after the election, Heribert supported the Conradin family several times against Heinrich II. In 1003 at the Synod of Dietenhofen, when he prevented the German bishops from declaring the marriage between Conrad of Carinthia and Mathilde of Swabia to be canonically invalid at the request of the king . Heribert also resisted the royal request to join the military action against Otto von Hammerstein .

After the burial of Otto III. and the election of the successor Heinrich II. he resigned the Chancellery. Back in Cologne, he founded, as with Otto III. agreed to the Deutz Abbey . In 1004 he accompanied King Heinrich II on his journey to Rome, although contemporaries described the relationship as cool. The foundation of the Bamberg diocese by Heinrich II. In 1007 was also supported by Heribert.

Heribert died on March 16, 1021 in Cologne. He was buried in the abbey he founded in Deutz.

Worship as a saint

Heribert Shrine (Photo: 2008)

A short time after Heribert's death in 1021, saints were worshiped at his grave in Deutz Abbey , which initially had only local dimensions, but between 1046 and 1060 found literary expression in Lantbert's hagiographic work by Deutz , which, in addition to a Vita sancti Heriberti with the Miracula sancti Heri Berti also an extensive miracle collection of Heribert during his lifetime and after his death bewirkter miracles and other liturgical texts and hymns written about Heribert.

A formal canonization by the Pope was not yet customary at that time and, in the case of Heribert, did not take place later either; the undated canonization document of a Pope "Gregorius" for Heribert is a forgery from the middle of the 12th century. It is related to an intensification of the Deutz Heriberts veneration in the first decades of the 12th century, especially under the Abbatiat Ruperts von Deutz (1120–1129); Rupert also wrote a Vita sancti Heriberti , which is partly based on Lantbert's work.

The bones of the saint, solemnly raised on August 30, 1147 , were placed in the precious Heriberts shrine, completed around 1175, which has been in the Neu St. Heribert church in Cologne-Deutz since the end of the 19th century .

A memorial plaque for Heribert was placed in the Walhalla near Regensburg . As part of the redesign of the sculpture program for the Cologne town hall tower in the 1980s, he was honored with a figure by Friedrich Lindenthal on the fourth floor on the south side of the tower.

Remembrance day

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literature

Web links

Commons : Heribert von Köln  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. Cf. Heribert Müller: On the canonization bull for Archbishop Heribert of Cologne In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 40 (1976) pp. 46-71.
  2. stadt-koeln.de: Sculptures on the fourth floor , accessed on January 15, 2015
  3. Heribert in the ecumenical dictionary of saints
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