Hildebold (Worms)

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Hildebold (also Hildibold , Hildibald , Hildebald ) (* around 940; † August 3, 998 ) was Bishop of Worms from 978 to 998 .

Life

Drawing of the grave slab ( Johann Friedrich Schannat )

It is questionable whether Hildebold emerged from the Worms Cathedral School. He was Chancellor and confidante of Otto II. At the end of October 977 he became head of the German royal chancellery of Otto II. He was the first chancellor to keep this office until his death, even after his elevation to bishopric. The Bishop of Worms was one of the representatives of the royal party during the uprising of Heinrich the Quarrel . Along with Archbishop Willigis of Mainz, he was the most influential advisor to Empress Theophanu and Chancellor of the empire and thus to the guardianship government of Otto III. involved from 984 to 994. In 985, on the intercession of Empress Theophanu, Archbishop Willigis and Duke Konrad von Schwaben, he received royal property in Eppingen, in the county of Duke Otto in Elsenz and Kraichgau . Hildebold took Otto III. in April 996 and accompanied Bruno of Carinthia as the later Gregor V to the enthronement in Rome. Hildebold died during the second Italian train. He was buried in Worms-Neuhausen , in the lost collegiate monastery St. Cyriakus .

The historians Georg Helwich († 1632) and Johann Friedrich Schannat († 1739) saw his grave slab in the Cyriakus monastery themselves; the latter also handed down a drawing of it.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website for the no longer existing grave slab
predecessor Office successor
Hanno from Hessen Bishop of Worms
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personal data
SURNAME Hildebold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hildibold; Hildibald; Hildebald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Worms
DATE OF BIRTH around 940
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 998