Hermann I. (Cologne)

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Hermann I. von Bliesgau (* around 870; † April 11, 924 ) was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne from 889/890 to 924 . He was nicknamed the Pious .

Life

Hermann was the younger son of Count Erenfried I von Bliesgau from the house of the Lorraine Peace of Honor ( Ezzonen ) and his wife Adelgunde of Burgundy, whose father was Margrave Conrad II of Burgundy. Others call its origin unknown. Before his spiritual career he was married to (the Konradine?) Gerberga.

Hermann was elected as the new archbishop by the clergy and people of Cologne at the turn of the year 889/890. He tried to reintegrate the suffragan diocese Hamburg-Bremen back into the Cologne sphere of influence, with which he failed, although Pope Formosus recognized the Cologne claims in 893; his successor Sergius III. however, made Bremen independent of Cologne. In 909 he was allowed to consecrate Hoger as Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. Hermann generally had good relations with the Holy See. From 895 to 897 he was Archkaplan of King Zwentibold of Lorraine . He took part in various synods: Forchheim 890, Tribur 895 and Koblenz 922. In 921 Hermann belonged to the retinue of King Charles III of West Franconia . the simple-minded at the conclusion of the Bonn contract and conjured up the contract.

The Liège diocese dispute of 920/21 brought Hermann the temporary disfavor of the West Frankish king and a summons to Rome. The sequel to the Chronicle of Regino von Prüm called Hermann a very saintly man . On August 11, 922, the archbishop assigned the convent of St. Ursula in Cologne to the sisters of the Gerresheim women's monastery, which had been destroyed by the Hungarians , took them under the protection of St. Peter and confirmed the goods and income of the united monasteries. He died on April 11, 924 and was buried in the Old Cologne Cathedral .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Cologne Cathedral
  2. ^ Schaab Meinrad: History of the Electoral Palatinate. Verlag W. Kohlhammer 1988 page 18,220
  3. a b c Wisplinghoff, NDB, Vol. 8, p. 634
  4. a b LexMA, Vol. 4, Col. 2163
  5. Archbishopric, Vol. 1, pp. 97f.
  6. Archbishopric, Vol. 1, p. 99
  7. ^ H. Cardauns, Rheinische Urkunden des X.-XII. Century, in: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine 26/27 (1874), pp. 334–341
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Willibert Archbishop of Cologne
889–924
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