Teutgarius

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Teutgarius (also Dietgar , Teutgar ) was at the beginning of the 9th century one of the deputies of the abbot Benedikt von Aniane in the monastery Megingaudshausen . While the older literature still regards him as an independent abbot, today it is assumed that Teutgarius was merely the representative of the absent Benedict.

The monastery in front of Teutgarius

At the beginning of the 9th century, Emperor Ludwig the Pious appointed Benedict of Aniane Abbot General of all Benedictine monasteries in the Franconian Empire. Megingaud from the Mattonen family then handed over to Benedict at the Diet of Paderborn in 815 his re-establishment in the Steigerwald , Megingaudshausen Monastery. The sending of founding staff was agreed with the Abbot General and the basic features of the foundation were laid down. Abbot Benedikt then sent several monks from the model monastery Kornelimünster to Megingaudshausen.

Life

The sources are silent about the early years of Teutgarius. He was probably trained as a priest in the Kornelimünster monastery near Aachen . He was mentioned for the first time in a list of prayer fraternities in which the monks of St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg entered the names of their Megingaudhaus confreres. In tenth place in the list is called a "Diatgar". Teutgarius ran well at this time the scriptorium of the monastery. The expansion of the library holdings was later attributed to him.

Teutgarius was later appointed by Benedict as deputy of the abbot general according to an imperial order, because he could not stay often in Megingaudshausen. A monastery chronicle of the successor abbey Münsterschwarzach from 1250 ascribed Teutgarius a poem of praise to his abbot Benedict. "Frater Teutgarius", as the self-designation in the poem was, probably had a great influence on the fortunes of the Steigerwald monastery around 816, but he continued to be only Benedict's deputy.

As abbot, Teutgarius only appeared in a document that reports on the solemn transfer of the bones of St. Boniface to the new cathedral in Fulda . He was named as one of the six chosen abbots of Franconia who carried the reliquary. The entire history of the monastery in Megingaudshausen-Münsterschwarzach, on the other hand, does not include the clergyman as an abbot in the list of monastery heads.

Teutgarius later went to Italy and is said to have worked there as an important reformer of the (northern) Italian monasteries. He served with Archbishop Angilberto II of Milan together with two companions. He later supported Bishop Rambert von Brixen in reforming his monasteries.

literature

  • Theodor J. Scherg: The Counts of the Mattonen and their religious foundations in Franconia, primarily Megingaudshausen in the Steigerwald and Schwarzach am Main . Brno 1909.
  • 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. pp. 153-157.
  • Gabriel Vogt: On the early history of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey (= special print from Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch 32/1980) . Volkach 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Vogt, Gabriel: On the early history of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey . P. 9.
  2. ^ Vogt, Gabriel: On the early history of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey . Pp. 4-8.
  3. ^ Vogt, Gabriel: On the early history of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey . P. 8.
  4. ^ Theodor H. Scherg: The Counts of the Mattonen and their religious foundations in Franconia, primarily Megingaudshausen in the Steigerwald and Schwarzach am Main. In: Studies and communications from the Benedictine and Cistercian orders. With special consideration of the order's history and statistics. Founded and published as a lasting reminder of the order's jubilee. Editor Dr. P. Maurus Kinter, OSB monastery archivist in Raigern. XXX. Born in 1909. Printed by the Raigerner papal Benedictine printing house in Brno. Self-published by the Benedictine and Cistercian orders. Pp. 162-179. accessed on February 1, 2019.
  5. ^ Vogt, Gabriel: On the early history of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey . P. 9.
  6. ↑ Trunk, Leo: The Abbots of Münsterschwarzach . Pp. 154-157.
  7. ↑ Scherg, Theodor J .: The Counts of the Mattonen . P. 21 f.
personal data
SURNAME Teutgarius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietgar, Teutgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Deputy Abbot of Megingaudshausen
DATE OF BIRTH before 816
DATE OF DEATH 9th century