Theutgaud

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Theutgaud († 868 ; also: Dietgold, Tietgaud, Tetgaud, Thietgaud) was Archbishop of Trier , where he succeeded his uncle Hetti (814-847).

Life

Theutgaud is said to have been abbot of Mettlach before he succeeded his uncle to the office of bishop after 847. The statement that he only became archbishop in 851 is based on poorer copies of Regino . In any case, the document he issued concerning the ownership of the altar of S. Castor in the Villa Rengsdorf falls before Ludwig's coronation as emperor (April 6, 850).

A severe thunderstorm that hit the city of Trier on September 15, 857, when Theutgaud was celebrating the service, and in which a large dog was running around the altar, gave the chroniclers reason to see the bad course of Theutgaud's episcopate mapped out in such signs .

On June 14, 859, Theutgaud took part in the Synod of Savonières near Toul , which was also attended by King Charles the Bald and his nephews Lothar and Karl. More disastrous was his participation in the synod held by Archbishop Gunthar of Cologne on the orders of Lothar II in Aachen in January 860, as well as in the following larger bishops' meeting held in February 860 (also in Aachen), where he allowed himself to be misled by Gunthar To favor King Lothars regarding his divorce from Tietberga and his remarriage to Waldrade.

The same year saw him on October 22nd at the Synod at Thousey near Toul, which was visited by the bishops from the kingdoms of Charles the Bald, Lothar II and the younger Charles. Probably in the year 862 he participated in the dispute between Archbishop Hinkmar von Reims and Bishop Rothad von Soissons , on which matter he wrote to the bishops in the kingdom of Louis II as the primate of Belgian Gaul with his brothers in office from Cologne, Besançon, Arles and Milan .

On April 29, 862 he appeared with his three suffragans at the third synod held in the divorce case of King Lothar of Aachen, and also in June 863 at the Metz Synod, where he and Archbishop Gunthar of Cologne sent an embassy to the Pope Nicholas I was entrusted. When they arrived in Rome, both archbishops were stripped of their episcopal power and excommunicated by the Pope at a Lateran synod (October 30, 863) because of their favoring of Lothar's adulterous plans. Embittered by this treatment, the two went to Benevento to see Emperor Ludwig II, with whom they returned to Rome at the beginning of 864, in the hope of getting their reinstatement. Since the Pope remained relentless, they returned home at the emperor's command, and Archbishop Gunthar celebrated again in his cathedral on Maundy Thursday (March 30th), overriding the excommunication and taking the reins of the government of his monastery again.

Theutgaud, however, respected the papal ban and abstained from spiritual functions. In the meantime he was still negotiating with Lothar in Trier in November 866, who tried, through the mediation of his imperial bishops, to induce Queen Thietberga to accuse himself of a fictitious crime and to remove the veil. Pope Nicholas I persistently opposed the request of kings Lothar and Ludwig the German to reinstate Theutgaud. Pope Hadrian II , who had succeeded Nicholas in office on November 13, 864, could not be won over to this step either; but he gave Theutgaud the Lord's Supper (lay communion) on December 14th in St. Theutgaud, now destitute, received an apartment from the Pope in the monastery of St. Gregorius relied on the Clivus Scauri , which he, frightened by a dream face, soon gave up. He died, while still in Rome, probably on January 27, 868.

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  1. ^ Page of the Diocese of Trier with the official spelling
predecessor Office successor
Hetti Archbishop of Trier
847–868 		Bertolf
personal data
SURNAME Theutgaud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tietgaud; Tetgaud; Thietgaud; Dietgold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Trier
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 868