Marco (Schleswig)

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Marco or Marke († November 11th around 1010 ?) Was bishop of the diocese of Schleswig in the 10th and 11th centuries.

Life

origin

Marco came from Fallersleben near Braunschweig. He or one of his ancestors was the head of the St. Michaelskirche , Marco , who gave gifts to King Otto I in 942 (originally dated 966!). After 1005 a bishop Marco was designated as the uncle of Dodilo von Fallersleben. Since there was no other bishop of that name at the time, he must have been meant.

Bishop of Schleswig

A catalog of the bishops of Schleswig from the 11th century named Marco as the fourth bishop of Schleswig, and Saxo Grammaticus from the 12th century named him the successor to the first bishop Hored . Adam von Bremen listed him as the seventh and last bishop to be ordained for a Danish diocese by Archbishop Adaldag of Hamburg († 988). without naming a diocese. His exact term of office can only be determined imprecisely from this, he must have been ordained before 988. His successor Poppo was bishop in 992 at the latest. The catalog named an alleged tenure of 19 years, the date of the beginning is difficult to assign.

It is uncertain whether Marco was actually able to exercise his episcopate in Haithabu.

Bishop in Oldenburg before 968/972?

In the 12th century, Helmold von Bosau named Marco as supposedly the first bishop of Oldenburg in Wagrien, for the period before 972. The diocese extended to the Peene in the Land of the Obodrites and included Demmin , as well as Schleswig / Haithabu. Only after his death was an independent diocese of Schleswig formed. With this, Helmold deviates from the older tradition of Adam von Bremen, who was the first bishop of Oldenburg to name Marco's alleged successor Egward . Helmold referred to Marco as the first bishop of Oldenburg to show that his diocese was as old as possible, even before Schleswig.

The Schleswig bishops list named November 11th as the day of death.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Certificate in Theodor Sickel (Ed.): Diplomata 12: The documents Konrad I., Heinrich I. and Otto I. (Conradi I., Heinrici I. et Ottonis I. Diplomata). Hannover 1879, pp. 133-134 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ) No. 50; the document was dated to 966, but had to be dated back to 942 due to the named people and circumstances. Annette von Boetticher: Fallersleben in the Middle Ages. In: Braunschweigische Jahrbücher für Landeskunde . Volume 78, 1997. pp. 65-85, here p. 66f. PDF
  2. ↑ cf. Johann Martin Lappenberg : About the chronology of the older bishops of the diocese of the Archdiocese of Hamburg . In: Archive of the Society for Older German History , 9, 1847, p. 396ff.
  3. ^ Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum , 10.13.1 .
  4. ↑ Adam von Bremen: Hamburgische Kirchengeschichte , II, 23 or 25, in Bernhard Schmeidler (ed.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 2: Adam von Bremen, Hamburgische Kirchengeschichte (Magistri Adam Bremensis Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum). Hannover 1917, p. 85 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ), German in II, 23
  5. ↑ Adaldag died in 988, and the Danish King Harald Blauzahn, during whose time Marco was supposed to have worked according to Saxo Grammaticus, died in 987.
  6. ↑ 42 years since the beginning of the diocese, that would be 991 to 1010 from 948 onwards.
  7. ^ Helmold von Bosau, Chronik der Slawen , I, 12, German among others in Johann Christian Mauritz Laurent: Helmolds Chronik der Slawen. (= Historian of the German prehistoric times, 56) Berlin 1852. S. 26f
  8. ↑ Volker Scior: The own and the foreign. Identity and foreignness in the chronicles of Adam von Bremen, Helmolds von Bosau and Arnold von Lübeck. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002. p. 150
  9. ^ Christian Radtke:  Marco. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 127 f. ( Digitized version ).
predecessor Office successor
Folkbert Bishop of Schleswig
991-1010 		Poppo
personal data
SURNAME Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of the Danish diocese of Schleswig
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH November 11 at 1010