Hugo of Verden

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Hugo von Verden († March 11, 1180 ) was Bishop of Verden from 1167 to 1180 . He maintained relationships with both Henry the Lion and Friedrich I. He played a political role in the peace agreement between the emperor and Pope Alexander III. , the Kingdom of Sicily and the Lombard League in Italy in 1177

Hugo of Verden

Life

He was a member of the cathedral chapter in Verden and briefly provost of the cathedral in Münster . It could be that he was chaplain and commander of the troops of Bishop Hermann von Verden with Frederick I in Italy in 1167. There the bishop died. After his bishop's election in 1168 by the cathedral chapter, he took part in a court day in Würzburg, which was about the reconciliation of the Saxon princes. In the Welfisch - Hohenstaufen conflict he stood between Heinrich the Lion and Friedrich I. Hugo was present when Heinrich the Lion reconciled with the Saxon princes on an imperial court day in 1170 in Fulda . The emperor decided in a dispute between Hugo and the Bishop of Halberstadt over important lands in favor of Verden. The emperor commissioned Otto von Brandenburg to protect this property. Hugo enfeoffed this with the property. He suggested the foundation of the monastery in Lüne , confirmed the first abbess and in 1172 issued a letter of foundation. Heinrich the Lion signed as the first witness and gave his consent as sovereign.

In 1174 Hugo followed the emperor to Italy. There he served him variously as a witness and as a judge. In 1177, in the presence of Empress Beatrix of Burgundy , King Henry and others , Hugo swore that the king would respect the treaty with the Roman Church , the peace treaty with the King of Sicily and the armistice with the Lombards for six years. As a representative of the emperor and king, he has taken the oath on these agreements towards the representatives of the opposite side on the gospels and the relics. Subsequently, too, he often served as a witness to the emperor.

After Henry the Lion returned from the Holy Land, Hugo consecrated an altar and a chapel in Lüneburg at the request of the Duke in 1179 . The relationship between Hugo and Heinrich the Lion seems to have been good. It is possible that they both worked together to found the market settlement around the church of St. Johannis in Verden .

Strangely enough, there is a document dated to the year 1190, ten years after the bishop's death, in which Hugo met Heinrich VI. complained about the destruction of Bardowick by Heinrich the Lion. Their authenticity is disputed.

literature

  • Ch. G. Pfannkuche: The older history of the former diocese of Verden. Verden, 1830 pp. 79-81

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kohl : The cathedral monastery of St. Paul in Münster. Berlin, 1982 (Germania sacra NF 17.2), page 6
  2. ↑ Florence Tourtual: Bishop Hermann von Verden 1149-1167 Münster, 1866 p.52
  3. ^ Friedrich I. (RI IV, 2) n. 1799
  4. ↑ The German Konigspfalzen. Delivery 2.2 Göttingen, 1984 p.121
  5. ^ Frederick I (RI IV, 2) n.2067
  6. ↑ Friedrich I. (RI IV, 2) n.2432
  7. ↑ Angela Karstensen: The resurrection carpet at Lüne Monastery: Pictorial tradition and singularity. Berlin, 2009 p. 11
  8. ↑ for example: Friedrich I. (RI IV, 2) n. 2111
  9. ^ Friedrich I. (RI IV, 2) n.2196
  10. ↑ Henry VI. (RI IV, 3) n.1a
  11. ^ Frederick I (RI IV, 2) n.2300
  12. ↑ Arend Mindermann: The bishops and the cathedral chapter of verden in their fragmentary visible relationships to the (northern) city of Verden in the 12th to 14th centuries. In: Bishop and Citizen. Dominant relationships in the cathedral cities of the High and Late Middle Ages. Göttingen, 2004 p.131
  13. ↑ Henry VI. RI IV, 3 - n.104
predecessor Office successor
Hermann Bishop of Verden
1167–1180 		Tammo
personal data
SURNAME Hugo of Verden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Verden (1167–1180)
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1180