Hildegrim II

Hildegrim II († December 21, 886 ) was the fourth bishop of Halberstadt from 853 to 886 .

Liudger's nephew was the sixth abbot of the Werden and Helmstedt monasteries and, after the death of Bishop Haymos in 853, became his successor in Halberstadt . Hildegrim II completed the construction work on the cathedral , which allegedly had already begun under Hildegrim I and a crypt had been added since 853 . On November 5, 859, he consecrated the house of God to Jesus Christ and Saint Stephen , whose arm relic he had walled into the high altar together with a large number of relics of other saints . The presence of Bishop Hildegrim II is documented for the synods in Cologne (868) and in Worms (870), albeit without reference to his diocese of Halberstadt. After 863, but before 877, Hildegrim became abbot of the monastery like the bishops before him. There he consecrated the Church of the Redeemer in 875, drove the building of the tower and placed the monastery in 877 under the protection of the king. He guaranteed the monks the right to freely elect an abbot for the time after his death. After his death, Hildegrim II, like his predecessors, was not buried in Halberstadt, but in the Liudgerid crypt of the Werden monastery.

literature

• Heinrich Engel: Ruhr Christians. History and stories of Ludgerus and the Liudgeriden, of imperial abbots and pastors in Werden an der Ruhr. Schmitz, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-932443-04-7 .
• Hedwig Röckelein : Halberstadt, Helmstedt and the Liudgeriden. In: Jan Gerchow (Ed.): The millennium of the monks. Cologne, Wienand 1999, pp. 65–73 ( PDF )

predecessor	Office	successor
Altfried	Abbot of Werden and Helmstedt 849–886	Andulph
Haymo	Bishop of Halberstadt 853–886	Agiulf