Ithier from Saint-Martin

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Ithier († between February 791 and May / July 796 probably in Tours , Latin Itherius , also Hitier, or Hithier , Latin Hitherius ) was the last Chancellor of Pippin the Younger and the first Chancellor of Charlemagne , and from 775 abbot of Saint -Martin de Tours .

Life

Ithier comes from Aquitaine , probably with Visigoth ancestors.

He had been a clerk at Pippin since at least June 760. He succeeded Badilon as head of the chancellery when the latter became abbot of Saint-Savin in 766 . After Pippin's death in 768, he was confirmed in office by Charlemagne and kept it at least until June 9, 776 (date of the last secured document), but certainly until January 777. He was replaced by Radon.

In 770 he became Pope Stephan III together with Beornrad , who later became Abbot of Echternach and Archbishop of Sens . sent, in 774 he accompanied Charlemagne to Rome. Also 781 - so after taking office as Chancellor - he accompanied Charlemagne to Rome and took here with Maginarius, the royal chaplain and since 784 followers Fulrads as abbot of Saint-Denis , in the negotiations that the Papal States , the annexation of the Sabina made possible. In 785 Ithier and Maginarius were back in Rome to agree with Pope Hadrian I how to deal with the newly defeated Saxons .

As Abbot of Saint-Martin in Tours he is mentioned for the first time in a document from Charles on May 10, 775; he was the successor of Abbot Vulfard . On February 7, 791 he founded a branch of his abbey in Cormery , the Celle Saint-Paul , which he also subordinated to Saint-Martin. His successor Alcuin elevated the foundation to a Benedictine monastery under the name Saint-Paul de Cormery .

Ithier's date of death is not known, only that Charlemagne gave Alcuin the management of the Abbey of Saint-Martin in Tours between May and July 796.

literature

  • Annick Chupin: Ithier, abbé de Saint-Martin et fondateur du monastère Saint-Paul de Cormery. In: Bulletin de la société des amis du pays lochois , 1993, p. 2219.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chupin, 1993, p. 221 and p. 225 footnote
  2. ↑ The terms were not common back then, but the functions correspond to one another.
  3. ↑ Chupin, 1993, p. 221
  4. ^ Robert-Henri Bautier : La chancellerie et les actes royaux dans les royaumes carolingiens. Bibliothèque de l ' École des chartes 142, 1984, pp. 5-80, v. a. P. 10
  5. ↑ In a letter to Bertrada the Younger and her son Karl, Stephan III. expressing his full satisfaction with Ithier's actions, calling him “vir religiosus” and “sollertissimus” after he had conceded the Pope to extend his rule over Benevento (Étienne Delaruelle: Charlemagne, Carloman, Didier et la politique du mariage franco-lombard. In : Revue historique No. 170, 1932, pp. 213–224, v. A. P. 217)
  6. ↑ In the Vita Hadriani he is referred to as a royal chaplain and notary ( Louis Duchesne : Vie du pape Adrien Ier. Paris 1886, § 41)
  7. ↑ Louis Duchesne: Le premiers temps de l'État pontifical (754-1073) Paris 1911, p. 158
  8. ↑ Jean-Louis Chalmel : Tablettes chronologique de l'histoire civile ecclésiastique de Touraine suivi de mélanges historique relatifs à la même province. Tours 1818, pp. 39-40
  9. ↑ Chupin, 1993, p. 223
personal data
SURNAME It here
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Itherius; Hitier; Here; Hitherius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chancellor Pippins the Younger and Charlemagne, Abbot of Saint-Martin de Tours
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Aquitaine
DATE OF DEATH between February 791 and July 796
Place of death unsure: Tours