Udalschalk (abbot)

Udalschalk was abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg from 1127 to 1151 .

The historical person Udalschalk first becomes tangible when the monk accompanied his abbot Egino (1109–1120) on a trip to Rome after his expulsion from the Augsburg monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra (1118) . After Egino's death (1120) Udalschalk was chaplain of Bishop Ulrich I of Constance (1111–1127), he helped prepare the canonization of Konrad von Konstanz (935–975) on November 26, 1123 in Constance , u. a. through another trip to Rome, this time to Pope Kalixt II (1119–1124), and wrote the saints' vitae of St. Conrad. Other writings of Udalschalk are: the “biography” “About Egino and Hermann”, the biography of the Augsburg bishop Adalbero (887–909), poems, music-theoretical writings, liturgical texts.

In 1127 Udalschalk became abbot of the Augsburg monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra. He continued the reform measures of his predecessor Egino and put his monastery on a solid economic basis by expanding the property. Udalschalk died in Augsburg around or after 1150.

expenditure

• Uodalschalcus, De Egino et Herimanno , in: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 12: Historiae aevi Salici. Hanover 1856, pp. 429–448 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )

literature

• M. Buhlmann: The St. Georgen Monastery and the magnus conventus in Constance in 1123 . (= Vertex Alemanniae; H. 17). St. Georgen 2005
• M. Buhlmann: St. Georgen as the reform center of Benedictine monasticism . (= Sources on the medieval history of St. George; Part VIII = Vertex Alemanniae; H. 20). St. Georgen 2005, p. 26 ff.
• N. Hörberg: Libri Sanctae Afrae. St. Ulrich and Afra zu Augsburg in the 11th and 12th centuries according to testimonies from the monastery library . (= Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History; Vol. 74). Göttingen 1983, pp. 236-242
• G. Kreuzer: Udalschalk , in: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Vol. VIII, Sp. 1175
• Wilhelm Vogt:  Udalschalk . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 128.

Web links

• Uodalscalcus Augustensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"