Udo IV of Strasbourg

Udo IV of Strasbourg also Utho , Uto (he is sometimes also counted as III) (died 965 ) was Bishop of Strasbourg from 950 to 965 .

Life

He came from the family of the Conradines . He was the son of Count Udo I. von der Wetterau and the daughter of Count Heribert I. von Vermandois from the house of the Carolingians .

Otto I installed him as Bishop of Strasbourg.

He renewed church discipline in his diocese and took part in a church meeting in Augsburg in 952 . He promoted the existing schools and founded new ones. He renewed and expanded the library of the Strasbourg cathedral . He himself worked as an author and wrote a résumé of Bishop Arbogast of Strasbourg . A vita of St. Amandus of Strasbourg , who is said to have been the first bishop of Strasbourg in the 4th century, is ascribed to him.

Significant donations were made to the diocese during his time, and in 961 the bishop himself gave the Strasbourg church significant property belonging to his family. He always remained a supporter of the king.

Otto I tried to secure the connections between his possessions on the middle Rhine and the passes over the Alps. He therefore ousted the Counts of Alsace, who were descended from the Etichonen , and promoted the diocese of Strasbourg. At Udo's request, the diocese was renewed the tariff exemption granted earlier in 953 at a meeting of princes that took place in Udo's sphere of influence.

Udo von Strasbourg accompanied Otto to Italy in 961 and he took part in the imperial coronation in Rome in 962 . He was a witness when Otto confirmed the rights of the Popes to the Ducat Rome and their other secular possessions.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Krista Codea: intervenors and petitioners primarily for Lorraine receiver diplomas of liudolfingischen rulers (919-1024). A prosopographic representation. Diss. Bonn, 2008 p. 110, Otto I. (RI II) n.226
2. ^ Otto I. (RI II) n.311

literature

• Ferdinand Heinrich Müller: Historical-Geographical Representation of Germany in the Middle Ages, especially during the tenth century. Part 1 Berlin, 1844, pp. 399-401
• Georg Victor Schmid: The secularized bishoprics of Germany, Volume 2. Gotha, 1858, pp. 414-415

Web links

• Brief description of the Vita s. Arbogasti, episcopi Argentoratensis
• Short entry on historical sources of the German Middle Ages