Hermann I of Holte

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Hermann I was abbot of the Corvey Benedictine Abbey in the East Westphalian town of Höxter from 1223 to 1253 .

Life

There are several details about its origin. He came either from the Counts von Dassel or the Osnabrück noble family von Holte. Today it is assumed that he was a brother of the Münster bishop Ludolf von Holte . With that, the nobleman Wilhelm von Holte would have been his father. The mother's name is not known. Before his abbatiate he was provost in Merseburg .

In 1234 he founded the Cistercian convent in Ottbergen. For security reasons, this was first moved to the vicinity of Höxter and then to Brenkhausen in 1247 . He had the provost office tom Roden built near Corvey . On his initiative, the Franciscans also settled in Höxter in 1248 .

Hermann signed a contract with the Bishop of Paderborn to regulate the law of the Diösezan in the area of ​​the Corveyer Propstei Obermarsberg . The provost's office remained in Corvey's possession, while the abbot recognized Paderborn's diocesan law. In 1223 he handed the Marsberg property over to the Archbishop of Cologne . This donation had to be canceled on imperial orders. In 1230 he ceded half of his secular rights in Marsberg to Archbishop Heinrich I of Cologne . He handed the city ​​of Bodenwerder over to the knight Heinrich von Homburg in 1245. For this he received other rights and possessions as a substitute.

The first town charter for Höxter also dates from his time. Hermann I had Lichtenfels Castle rebuilt. With his brother Ludolf, he concluded a contract in 1238 on joint occupation rights for Landegge Castle . Soon afterwards, Ludolf switched off the Corveyer influence and also acquired the bailiwick over Corvey's estates in Emsland.

A bailiff's dispute with the Diocese of Halberstadt was settled for the Propstei Gröningen in the Harz , which is connected with Corvey . Hermann von Corvey left the bailiwick rights over various places belonging to Gröningen and other rights, including the right to coins, to the diocese.

After his death, Corvey's long, late medieval decline began.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: Das Bistum Münster 7 Die Diözese 3 Berlin, 2003 (Germania sacra NF 37,3) p. 297
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: Das Bistum Münster 7 Die Diözese 3 Berlin, 2003 (Germania sacra NF 37.3) p. 300
  3. ↑ Christoph Römer: The Benedictines in Gröningen. Epochs of a Corveyer Propstei in the Diocese of Halberstadt. In: Harzzeitschrift 60 vol. 2008 p. 23

literature

  • Georg Victor Schmid: The secularized dioceses of Germany. Vol . 1 Gotha 1858 131f.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the sixteenth century. Vol. 1 , Leipzig, 1858
predecessor Office successor
Hugold Abbot of Corvey
1223–1254 		Thiemo
personal data
SURNAME Hermann I of Holte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermann I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Corvey (1223–1253)
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1253