Ruotbert of Trier

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Ruotbert von Trier († May 19, 956 in Cologne ) was Archbishop of Trier from 931 to 956 .

Life

The assumption that Ruotbert was a brother of Mathilde , the wife of King Henry I , is doubted in recent research. Eduard Hlawitschka suspects an origin from Lorraine. Ruotbert was appointed Archbishop of Trier in 931, shortly afterwards he was appointed Arch Chancellor of Lorraine by King Heinrich I. From 937 to 951 it is as Lord Chancellor and Erzkapellan Otto I occupied. In 951 he took part in Otto I's first Italian campaign. The focus of his politics lay in the west of the empire, which brought him into conflict with the Lorraine Duke Konrad the Red and Otto's brother Brun(Bruno von Sachsen, Chancellor of the Roman-German Empire and Archbishop of Cologne) brought. Konrad accused Otto of infidelity and Brun increasingly ousted him from the court chapel after 940. In 946 Ruotbert achieved the transfer back of the Abbey of St. Servatius in Maastricht . He died while attending the Cologne Court Conference in 956. His body was buried in Trier.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Persch:  Ruotbert von Trier. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1012-1013.
  2. ^ Eduard Hlawitschka: Controversies from the environment of King Heinrich I's wife Mathilde . In: Ernst-Dieter Hehl (Ed.): Deus qui mutat tempora: Menschen u. Institutions in transition d. Middle Ages; Festschr. for Alfons Becker on his 65th birthday. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1987.
predecessor Office successor
Ruotger Archbishop of Trier
931–956
Heinrich I.