Sifrid

Sifrid († February 5, 1316 ) was abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach from 1288 to 1316 .

Münsterschwarzach before Sifrid

Abbot Sifrid was already the twenty-ninth abbot to head the Münsterschwarzach monastery. After the abbey was finally subordinated to the Würzburg bishops , who turned the monastery into an episcopal monastery, abbots were mainly appointed to consolidate the reforms of Gorze . Along with many others, the later Saint Egbert von Münsterschwarzach particularly distinguished himself here .

After the Hirsau reform was able to gain a foothold in the abbey in the 12th century , the buildings were partially renovated and repaired. The 13th century is mainly characterized by the lack of sources. A circumstance that led the monastery chroniclers to omit some abbots completely. Only recent research has succeeded in reconstructing the missing monastery rulers. Sifrid's direct predecessor Sigiloch was only mentioned in Heinrich Wagner's abbot series.

Life

Nothing is known about the youth and early years of Abbot Sifrid. It appeared for the first time in a document dated January 26, 1289, in which he sold some monastery goods to the Cistercian monastery in Ebrach . Sifrid was mentioned again in 1290. Again Münsterschwarzach sold his goods in a place called Sambach to the Ebrach abbot Winricus. It is unclear whether this was Untersambach in today's Kitzingen district or Mönchsambach, which today belongs to Burgebrach .

In 1291 the monastery property continued to be dissolved. With the consent of the Würzburg bishop Manegold , the estates in Güntersleben and Theilheim were dissolved. With these sales Sifrid managed to discharge the abbey. Now he was able to buy back monastery property that had previously been pledged: He bought back the bailiwick of almost all monastery villages from the Counts of Castell and also bought the important Dettelbacher tithe from the heirs of Konrad von Sickershausen.

Pope Celestine V confirmed his rights to the monastery in 1294. Sifrid also had the buildings of the monastery, which had been affected by the many feuds of the Würzburg bishops, rebuilt. Towards the end of his term of office, however, there was a major conflict in the Convention , which can only be vaguely understood due to the lack of sources. Sifrid is documented for the last time in 1306, which makes a death in 1316, on February 5th, rather unlikely.

literature

• Johannes Mahr: Münsterschwarzach. 1200 years of a Franconian abbey . Münsterschwarzach 2002.
• Leo Trunk: The Abbots of Münsterschwarzach. A comparative overview . In: Pirmin Hugger (Ed.): Magna Gratia. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Münsterschwarzach abbey church 1938–1988 . Münsterschwarzach 1992.
• Heinrich Wagner: The abbots of Megingaudshausen and Münsterschwarzach in the Middle Ages . In: Pirmin Hugger (Ed.): Magna Gratia. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Münsterschwarzach abbey church 1938–1988 . Münsterschwarzach 1992.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ While Heinrich Wagner (p. 131) mentions this number, all other representations are based on the year 1290. Compare: Trunk, Leo: The Abbots of Münsterschwarzach . P. 154 f.
2. ↑ Mahr, Johannes: Münsterschwarzach. 1200 years of a Franconian abbey . P. 19.
3. ^ Wagner, Heinrich: The abbots of Münsterschwarzach in the Middle Ages . P. 132.

predecessor	Office	successor
Sigiloch	Abbot of Münsterschwarzach 1288-1316	Conrad I. Zobel Conrad II.