Ludolf (Corvey)

Ludolf (* around 915 ; † August 13, 983 in Corvey ) was abbot of Corvey from 965 to 983 and is a saint of the Catholic Church. His feast day is August 13th.

Ludolf was related to the house of the Saxon dukes and was the son of the bailiff of Corvey, named Hoger. Ludolf was considered an energetic man who maintained the monastic discipline with strength and rigor. He has conscientiously visited churches in his area. In his time the monastery school had a good reputation. In his time Widukind von Corvey and other important scholars still lived in the monastery. He made a pilgrimage to Cologne and Rome . He had the church in Godelheim expanded and donated an altar to it. He had the monastery surrounded with a strong wall. Otto I donated properties to the monastery. Otto II confirmed all previous rights to Corvey. These were confirmed by Benedict VII , who at the same time recognized Corvey's direct subordination to the papal see. With this, the monastery had finally secured its immunity and independence from the diocese of Paderborn . Its bishop Volkmar , himself a former monk in Corvey, did not oppose this. In 980 he exchanged a number of properties with the emperor for the benefit of the monastery. The tithe he had lost through neglect in a Gau in the Diocese of Bremen was returned to him by Otto II.

After his death, Ludolf was venerated as a saint. In 1001 Abbot Markward von Corvey had his remains buried in a tomb in front of the Altar of the Holy Cross in the monastery church.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in heiligenlexikon.de

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the sixteenth century . Vol. 1, Leipzig, 1858 p. 343.
• Paul Wigand: History of the royal abbey Corvey and the cities of Corvey and Höxter . Vol. 1, Höxter, 1819 pp. 117-120

predecessor	Office	successor
Tanners	Abbot of Corvey 965-983	Ditmar I.