Lutold (St. Gallen)

Lutold was from 1077 to around 1083 the abbot of the St. Gallen monastery . Nothing is known about life before and after his work in St. Gallen. He is absent from the oldest abbot lists.

Act

During the dispute over the investiture controversy, the rival king Rudolf of Swabia appointed Lutold as abbot of the St. Gallen monastery in 1077 . However , he was not accepted by the St. Gallen monks who took the position for Henry IV . In a symbolic action, they broke the abbot's staff and thus referred to the illegality of his abbot dignity. In September 1077 the influence of Henry IV was so great that he appointed Ulrich von Eppenstein as abbot. Lutold then fled to Reichenau Monastery . New attempts to install the counter-abbot Lutold in St. Gallen were unsuccessful. In 1083, the counter-king Hermann von Salm appointed the Reichenau monk Werinhar as counter-abbot in St. Gallen in place of Lutold .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Werner Vogler: St. Gallen - Abbots: Lutold, 1077 – approx. 1083. In: Helvetia Sacra. Dept. III: The orders with Benedictine rule. 2/1: Early monasteries, the Benedictines in Switzerland. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, p. 1291 f.

Web links

Lutold on the website of the St. Gallen Abbey Archives .
Lutold in the Stadtlexikon Wil; According to Johannes Duft : The Abbey of St. Gallen .

predecessor	Office	successor
Ulrich von Eppenstein	Abbot of St. Gallen (counter-abbot) 1077-1083	Werinhar

personal data
SURNAME	Lutold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Opposite Abbot of the St. Gallen Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1083

[HS-1] Werner Vogler: St. Gallen - Abbots: Lutold, 1077 – approx. 1083. In: Helvetia Sacra. Dept. III: The orders with Benedictine rule. 2/1: Early monasteries, the Benedictines in Switzerland. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, p. 1291 f.