Richwin (Strasbourg)

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Richwin († August 30, 933 ) was Bishop of Strasbourg from 914 to 933 .

Richwin, by descent from Lorraine , seems like his predecessor to have been brought to the episcopal see by the influence of West Franconian politics in 914 and to have initially asserted himself there in contrast to his rightful metropolitan, the Archbishop of Mainz . The then extremely uncertain conditions in the German border regions in the west will have made this easier for him. Even after the resolutions of the Synod of Hohenaltheim in 916, which Richwin had requested in vain, he remained quietly in his seat, although the same had declared him deposed with the consent of the papal legate , if he did not appear before Archbishop Heriger at the next Provincial Synod in Mainz ask that he justified himself to the Pope. Whether and how he obeyed this request is not recorded; it seems, however, that after King Henry had firmly seized the reins of government, Richwin decided to take his side. At least we find him of all the Alemannic bishops at the Synod of Koblenz in 922, also at the great Imperial Assembly in Worms in November 926 and finally at the Erfurt Synod in the summer of 932. The victory over the Hungarians, whose cavalry storms also repeatedly devastating his diocese had broken in, he still lived through it, he died on August 30, 933, characterized in the Erchenbald's catalog of bishops as profunditate litterarum amplior, virtutibus illustris, in juventute vividus, in senecta spiritalis. What Richwin did for his diocese and the Strasbourg Church is not known, only we know from documentary records that he provided ample donations for both the cathedral chapter and, in particular, the St. Thomas monastery in Strasbourg.

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predecessor Office successor
Gozfrid Bishop of Strasbourg
914–933 		Ruthard
personal data
SURNAME Richwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Strasbourg
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 933