Libentius I.

Libentius I (also: Libizo, Liawizo) (* in the 10th century ; † January 4, 1013 in Bremen ) was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bremen .

biography

Libentius I came from what was then southern Swabia, from Churrätia or Hochburgund . When Pope Benedict V was deposed and banished from Rome in June 964, he had to follow Adaldag's captive Archbishop to Hamburg . Libentius was Adaldag's confidante in his entourage. In 988, after Adaldag's death, he succeeded him as archbishop and bishop in the double dioceses of Bremen and Hamburg, based in Bremen. When the Normans invaded, he temporarily had to move to St. Materniani Abbey at Bücken near Hoya .

According to Adam von Bremen's reports, around 1000 he had a wall with palisades built around the Bremen Cathedral as a cathedral castle. The later walling was largely demolished again in the 11th century under Bishop Adalbert von Bremen . After 1002 he inaugurated the monastery in Harsefeld . Several times Libentius sought the royal court of Emperor Otto III. and King Henry II . He died in 1013 and was buried in Bremen Cathedral, where his high grave was preserved for a long time. He was succeeded by Archbishop Unwan .

Archbishop Libentius II († 1032) was his nephew.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
• Günter Glaeske: The archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen as imperial princes (937-1258). Hildesheim 1962, pp. 25-32.

predecessor	Office	successor
Adaldag	Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen 988-1013	Unwan