Walaus

Walaus (around 740?) Was a bishop of Basel .

Walaus opens the oldest known list of bishops from the Münster Abbey in Alsace as archiepiscopus under Pope Gregory III. (731-741). Its function as Basel bishop is controversial, however, since Basel belonged to the Archdiocese of Besançon and was never the seat of an archbishop . However, the title archiepiscopus has already been interpreted in research in the sense of an award as the founder of the diocese. Christian Wilsdorf doubts the term of office and equates Walaus with Walachus vocatus episcopus , who appears in 778 as a witness on a document of Bishop Remigius of Strasbourg without any indication of origin . According to this, Walaus should have followed Baldobertus , who appears in second place on the aforementioned list of bishops, and not preceded it.

literature

• August Bernoulli : On the oldest directory of the Basel bishops, in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde . Volume 3 (1904), pp. 59-64 ( digitized version ).
• Helvetia Sacra , Division 1, Volume 1: Swiss Cardinals. The Apostolic Legation System in Switzerland. Archbishoprics and Dioceses I, edited by several authors, edited by Albert Bruckner , Bern 1972, pp. 128, 163f.
• Hans-Rudolf Meier and Dorothea Schwinn Schürmann; Marco Bernasconi, Stefan Hess , Carola Jäggi , Anne Nagel and Ferdinand Pajor: The Basel Minster . (The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Stadt, Volume X). Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2019, ISBN 978-3-03797-573-2 , p. 37.
• Jean-Claude Rebetez et al. (Ed.): Pro deo. The diocese of Basel from the 4th to the 16th century, Pruntrut 2006, p. 51.
• Ernst Alfred Stückelberg : On the older Basel diocese history, in: Anzeiger für Schweizerische Geschichte , New Series 9 (1903), pp. 170-173.
• Christian Wilsdorf: Remarques à propos de Walaus, évêque de Bâle, in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde . Volume 65 (1965), pp. 133-136 ( digitized version ).