Tello (bishop)

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Tello (* unknown; † September 24, 765 (?)) Was Bishop of Chur from 759 to 765 .

Life

Tellostrasse in Chur

According to his will from 765 and the bishops' catalog of the Liber de feodis from 1388, he was the son of the Councilor President Victor and his wife Teusenda. His siblings are also mentioned in the will, but their names are not known. Tello may have been brought up in Disentis Monastery .

He can be proven as Bishop of Chur from 759. Like his father, he was also President at the same time and thus united the spiritual and secular authority in Churrätien in one person. Around 760 he issued the Lex Romana Curiensis collection of laws to regulate civil legal relationships. Tello is also considered to be the builder of the Carolingian cathedral in the courtyard (construction started around 750/60), which replaced the first bishop's church from the first half of the 5th century.

The Reichenau monk Walahfrid Strabo mentions him for 759/760 in his Vita Sancti Galli . In 762 he participated as a suffragan of the Archbishop of Mainz at the Council of Attigny- sur-Aisne and signed its files. Tello is mentioned among others in the fraternity book of Reichenau Abbey.

Afterlife

A street in Chur is named after Bishop Tello today.

testament

Tello's testament is one of the most important documents for the Rhaetian church history of the 8th century among the sparse written sources for Graubünden from early medieval times and one of the oldest written documents in Graubünden.

The certificate was drawn up as donatio post obitum (donation due to death). It was issued on December 15, 765 in Chur, it is signed by the donor Tello and twelve witnesses. Tello bequeathed extensive possessions (goods and lands) in the lower Surselva between Flims and Trun to the Disentis Monastery, which was built around 720 and with which it was closely connected. The document is the only document for Disentis that has survived from the Carolingian era .

The long and detailed text shows a number of linguistic and formal breaks, which repeatedly led to speculation about its "authenticity" and its meaning. The genesis of the document is uncertain. A number of questions remain unanswered: Why was the text written? Were the properties mentioned actually in Tello's possession or were his claims recorded? How and for what was the directory used?

Location of Bregl da Heida

Thanks to the excavations at the Castle Schiedberg 1964–1968 near Sagogn and thanks to the exact location information in Tello's document, the buildings mentioned could be located. The two-storey manor house is likely to have been located in the deserted Bregl da Heida between the village of Sagogn and the Schiedberg ruins and the curtis in the inner village not far from the Marienkirche.

The goods are listed very differently according to their type of use (fruit or vegetable garden, vineyards, arable land, meadows). With regard to land use and land ownership, Sagogn and the lower Surselva appear as a well-structured area.

The extensive donation to the Disentis monastery could be an atonement by Tello for the bloodshed of his father, President Viktor, who had Placidus of Disentis killed at the beginning of the 8th century .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese history Diocese of Chur
  2. Walahfrid Strabo: Vita Sankti Galli, II, 17 .
  3. Jürg Simonett, Roger Sablonier (Ed.): 150 sources on Bündner Geschichte (= Handbook of Bündner Geschichte . Part 5). CD-ROM. Publishing house Bündner Monatsblatt, Chur 2000.
  4. ^ Bishop Tello's deed of donation ("Tellotestament"), 765.
  5. ^ Gion Condrau (ed.): Disentis - Mustér. History and present. Disentis 1996, p. 37

literature

predecessor Office successor
Vigilius Bishop of Chur
759–765
Constantius