Pilgrim from Passau

Pilgrim von Passau (also: Piligrim , Pilegrinus , Peregrinus ) (* around 920; † May 21, 991 in Passau ) was the 18th bishop of Passau .

Life

Pilgrim came from the Bavarian nobility. Paternal it was victory Hardinger , maternal Aribone . He received his training in Niederaltaich Monastery . Presumably he was also a canon there .

In 971 Emperor Otto I appointed him Bishop of Passau. Since he was on the side of Emperor Otto II during the uprising of the Dukes Heinrich II of Bavaria and Heinrich I of Carinthia , Passau was besieged and destroyed in 977. Pilgrim received from the emperor possessions in the Mark in the east and took care of the reconstruction there after the Magyar invasions . From 985 to 991 he held three diocesan synods in Lorch , Mautern and Mistelbach near Wels .

Pilgrim promoted the proselytizing of the Magyars, which was successful with the baptism of the Árpád prince Géza and his son Stephan in 975 or 985. He recalled Wolfgang , who was later canonized, from the Mission to Hungary and made him Bishop of Regensburg .

He did not succeed in obtaining the metropolitan rights over Moravia and Hungary . He wanted Passau to become an archbishopric and possibly made the Lorch forgeries by hand . He wanted to prove that the diocese of Passau was the legal successor to the ancient archdiocese of Lauriacum (today Lorch).

At the end of the 12th century he was temporarily venerated as a saint . At the same time, the poet of the Nibelungenlied , who probably worked in Passau and who called him the uncle of Kriemhild , set him a literary monument . The supplementary poem for the Nibelungenklage even attributed the initiative to Pilgrim to record the fabulous events of the Nibelung's fall in Latin. It is probably a literary fiction.

literature

Karl Uhlirz : Pilgrim (Bishop of Passau) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 131-134.
Anton Landersdorfer : Pilgrim (Piligrim). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 441 ( digitized version ).
Franz-Reiner Erkens : The forgeries Pilgrims of Passau . Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-10411-4 .
Josef Oswald: Pilgrim, Bisch. v. Passau . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd edition, 8th volume. Herder, Freiburg i. B. 1963.
Josef Vodka: Church in Austria. Guide through their history . Herder, Vienna 1959.
Waldemar Lehr: Pilgrim, Bishop of Passau, and the Lorcher forgeries . Dissertation Berlin 1909.
Franz-Reiner Erkens: Pilgrim from Passau. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 616-619. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Pilgrim from Passau in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
Entry on Pilgrim von Passau in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Entry on Pilgrim von Passau in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

Individual evidence

^ Herbert Wilhelm Wurster: The Diocese of Passau and its history. 4 volumes, Strasbourg 1994–2010.
^ List of all bishops in the diocese .
^ Franz-Reiner Erkens: A great forger: Bishop Pilgrim of Passau. In: Akademie Aktuell, magazine of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 01/2012, pp. 66–68.

personal data
SURNAME	Pilgrim from Passau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Piligrim; Pilegrinus; Peregrinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Passau
DATE OF BIRTH	around 920
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 991
Place of death	Passau

[1] Herbert Wilhelm Wurster: The Diocese of Passau and its history. 4 volumes, Strasbourg 1994–2010.

[2] List of all bishops in the diocese .

[3] Franz-Reiner Erkens: A great forger: Bishop Pilgrim of Passau. In: Akademie Aktuell, magazine of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 01/2012, pp. 66–68.