Waldo of Freising

Waldo on a painting in the Fürstengang Freising

Waldo's coat of arms in the Fürstengang Freising

Waldo von Freising , also Uualdo , Vualdo or Vvaldo , (* approx. 852/3 in the Lake Constance area; † May 18, 906 in Trebur or Holzkirchen near Würzburg ) had been Bishop of Freising since 883 .

The Constance cathedral student subsequently attended the monastery schools in St. Gallen and on the Reichenau and received his training from Archbishop Liutbert of Mainz from 878 to 879 . His brother Solomon , who trained with him, became Bishop of Constance in 891 . Waldo was notary from 880 and from 882 to 884 chancellor of King Karl III. In the run-up to Waldo's bishopric elevation, the king interfered for the first time in the occupation of the Freising bishopric. Waldo was also after a long time the first bishop of Freising who did not belong to the large aristocratic clans of the Bavarian region. After the death of Bishop Arnold von Freising on September 22, 883, he, who still only held the spiritual rank of subdeacon , quickly received all ordinations up to and including bishop. Waldo was also considered one of the most politically influential bishops in what was then Eastern France under Arnulf von Kärnten . From 889 to 892 he was also abbot of the Kempten monastery . Waldo took part in the Synod of Mainz in 888 as well as in the Synod of Trebur in May 895. He was probably also a participant in the Battle of Hungary near Linz in 900. The Freising Cathedral burned down in 903, but the damage was repaired by 906, not least because of the income from the salt tariff of the Föhring he had acquired . In the spring of May 906 Waldo went to a Reichstag in Trebur. For the last time, Waldo can be traced back to Holzkirchen near Würzburg, where he obtained from Ludwig the Child for the Freising clergy the free canonical election of all future bishops. Either there or in Trebur he died. His body was transferred to the Freising Cathedral.

literature

• Max Georg Kellner:  Waldo von Freising. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 202-204.
• Josef Maß , The Diocese of Freising in the late Carolingian period. The bishops Anno (854–875), Arnold (875–883) and Waldo (884–906), (= Studies on Old Bavarian Church History, Volume 2), Munich 1969, (also university publication Munich, Theological Faculty, dissertation from May 10th 1969).

predecessor	Office	successor
Arnold	Bishop of Freising 883–906	Utto