Ragnacharius

Ragnacharius (also Ragnachar ; † between 621 and 629) was a bishop of Augst and Basel .

Ragnacharius was a student of Eustasius, abbot of Luxueil, where he became a monk. At the beginning of the 7th century he was Bishop of Basel. He is in the Vita of St. Eustasius of Luxueil known as Augustanus et Basileae ecclesiarum praesul . The double location could be an indication of the relocation of the bishopric from Augst to Basel. In the Vita S. Agili, however, it is only referred to as Ragnacharius qui Augustodunensis . Perhaps the passage in the Vita of St. Gallus , according to which Duke Cunzo of Alemannia called the Augustodunensem praesulem, who is not named by name, to elect Bishop John I of Constance , also relates to him. The mention of a bishop in the Basel region after almost 300 years of interruption is probably related to Columban's mission and the revival of the Archdiocese of Besançon, which was first tangible in 614 . After Ragnacharius, however, the diocese of Basel could have perished again, as the oldest known list of bishops is in first place Walau , who held his office in the middle of the 8th century. However, no names of Basel bishops have survived between Ragnacharius and Walaus.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), Volume 18 (Supplements V), Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , pp. 1173f.
• Eugène Folletète: Ragnachaire, moine de Luxeuil, évêque de Bâle . In: Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Kirchengeschichte 44, 1950, pp. 290–292 ( digitized version ).
• Helvetia Sacra , Division 1, Volume 1: Swiss Cardinals. The Apostolic Legation System in Switzerland. Archbishoprics and Dioceses I , edited by several authors, edited by Albert Bruckner , Bern 1972, p. 163.
• Hagen Keller : Germanic land grab and early Middle Ages. In: Meinrad Schaab and Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (Hrsg.): Handbook of Baden-Württemberg history. Vol. 1. Part 1. Stuttgart 2001, pp. 191-296, here pp. 261-263.
• Hans-Rudolf Meier and Dorothea Schwinn Schürmann; Marco Bernasconi, Stefan Hess , Carola Jäggi , Anne Nagel and Ferdinand Pajor: The Basel Minster . (The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Stadt, Volume X). Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2019, ISBN 978-3-03797-573-2 , pp. 36, 76.

Web links

• Romain Jurot : Ragnacharius. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .