Purchart II of St. Gallen

Purchart (*?; † July 17, 1022 ) was abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Gallen from 1001 to 1022 .

Life

Purchart enjoyed great veneration among his monks. So some stories are told about him. From his youth the one that he went with Ekkehart II to Hohentwiel Castle to Hadwig the Duchess of Swabia. He is said to have delighted them with his self-written verses, whereupon she gave him lessons in the Greek language. However, no documentary confirmation of his career can be found prior to his election as abbot; Nothing can be found in the Book of Professions either. Henry II . on June 17, 1004 confirmed the immunity of the monastery and the free election of abbots. His term of office ended with his death, which overtook him on the way back from Henry II's Italian campaign when an epidemic struck the army.

Act

Purchart is said to have reversed the loss of St. Gallen monastery after Kerhart's reign. He reestablished monastery breeding and brought many lost monastery goods, especially fiefs that had been given out, back to the monastery. He also had the convent building repaired and expanded, increased the church treasury and probably furnished the cloister with a series of images from the life of St. Gallus , for which Ekkehart IV composed the inscriptions. The German language was particularly cultivated under Purchart, as Notker ("Der Deutsche") Labeo was head of the St. Gallen monastery school.

He successfully defended himself against legal and financial claims of the Curia of Constance and especially the archpriest.

Web links

• Peter Erhart: Purchart. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Vogler: Short biographies of the abbots . In: Johannes Duft, Anton Gössi and Werner Vogler (eds.): The St. Gallen Abbey . St. Gallen 1986, ISBN 3-906616-15-0 , p. 118 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Kerhart	Abbot of St. Gallen 1001-1022	Thietpald