Leuderich

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Lead plaque from the grave of Bishop Leuderich, Focke-Museum Bremen

Leuderich (Leuterich, Lüder) († August 24, 845 in Bremen ) was the third bishop of the diocese of Bremen . Practically nothing is known about his origin and his life; Adam von Bremen only reports that he was a deacon under his predecessor Willerich (r. 805 until May 838). A grave plan from the 11th to 13th centuries shows that he was buried on the north side of the high altar in Bremen Cathedral . In 1840, when an altar was demolished, a lead plaque from his grave was found. Her engraved inscription reads: VIIII K (a) L. SEPT. O (BIIT) LIUDERICUS EP (is) Copus (= On the 9th before the Kalends of September died Bishop Leuderich). It only mentions the day of death, not the year, because it was intended to ensure that the commemorative mass was read regularly. The board is considered to be the oldest written document in Bremen. The title of the buried is still episcopus , the arch dignity only came to his successor Ansgar .

proof

  1. ^ Adam of Bremen: Bishop history of the Hamburg church . In: Sources of the 9th and 11th centuries on the history of Hamburg history and the empire, Darmstadt 1978, p. 193.
  2. Der Bremer Dom , exhibition catalog Focke-Museum Bremen, 1979, p. 108.
predecessor Office successor
Willerich Bishop of Bremen
838–845
Ansgar