Osdag

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Osdag († November 8, 989 ) was Bishop of Hildesheim from 985 to 989 .

Like his successor, he probably came from the Ricda clan . During his term of office, the Gandersheim dispute broke out on the question of whether Gandersheim should belong to the Hildesheim or the Mainz diocese , from which the rights of the respective bishops are derived. The cause of the dispute was the question of who the Emperor's daughter Sophia , the sister of Otto III. , should dress. She did not only want to receive the nun's veil from Hildesheim Bishop Osdag and turned to Willigis, the Archbishop of Mainz. In order to defend his right as a diocesan bishop , Osdag had Theophanus and the royal child Otto III. set up his bishop's seat next to the altar. The threatening escalation of the dispute could be avoided by the fact that both bishops were to dress up Sophie, while the rest of the Osdag took on the dressing alone.

Osdag made little prominence in imperial politics.

swell

  • Life of St. Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, written by Thangmar (?). In: Life descriptions of some bishops of the 10th – 12th centuries Century (=  selected sources on the German history of the Middle Ages. Volume 22). Translated by Hatto Kallfelz. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1973, ISBN 3-534-01421-9 , pp. 263-361.

literature

  • Gerd Althoff : Otto III. (= Design of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-89678-021-2 , p. 57f.
  • Gerd Althoff: Noble and royal families in the mirror of their memorial tradition. Studies on the commemoration of the dead of the Billunger and Ottonians (= Münster medieval writings. Volume 47). Fink, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7705-2267-2 , p. 333 ( digitized version ).
  • Hans Goetting : The diocese of Hildesheim: Part 3: The Hildesheim bishops from 815 to 1221 (1227) (= Germania sacra. The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The diocese of Hildesheim. New series, vol. 20). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1984, ISBN 3-11-010004-5 , pp. 156-163 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ RI II, 3 n.1017i, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/0989-11-00_2_0_2_3_0_307_1017i (accessed on October 14, 2016).
predecessor Office successor
Othwin Bishop of Hildesheim
985–989 		Gerdag
personal data
SURNAME Osdag
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Hildesheim (985–989)
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 989