Nortpert

Nortpert († after 1076 ) was abbot of the St. Gallen monastery from 1034 to 1072 .

Act

Nortpert was called from the reform monastery of Stablo to St. Gallen to reintroduce stricter monastic forms of life there as abbot. Despite resistance from the St. Gallen monks, he was able to successfully implement his reform program. In 1040 he received King Heinrich III. , whom he accompanied on his Italian train in 1046 . 1047 he obtained in Rome the canonization of St. Gallen local saint Wiborada that during the Hungarian invasion the martyrdom had found. As an abbot trying to uphold the property rights of his monastery, he got into a bloody conflict with Bishop Rumold of Constance . After a reign of 38 years, he abdicated in 1072.

Web links

Nortpert on the website of the St. Gallen Abbey Archives .

Nortpert in the city lexicon Wil; According to Johannes Duft : The Abbey of St. Gallen .

Individual evidence

^ Werner Vogler: St. Gallen - Abbots: Nortpert, 1034-1072. In: Helvetia Sacra. Dept. III: The orders with Benedictine rule. 2/1: Early monasteries, the Benedictines in Switzerland. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, p. 1289 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Thietpald	Abbot of St. Gallen 1034-1072	Ulrich II.

personal data
SURNAME	Nortpert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbot of the St. Gallen Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1034
DATE OF DEATH	after 1076

[1] Werner Vogler: St. Gallen - Abbots: Nortpert, 1034-1072. In: Helvetia Sacra. Dept. III: The orders with Benedictine rule. 2/1: Early monasteries, the Benedictines in Switzerland. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, p. 1289 f.