Waldo of Reichenau

Waldo von Reichenau , also Walto (* around 740; † March 29/30, 814 or 815 in Saint-Denis near Paris ) was abbot of St. Gallen and Reichenau and administrator of the dioceses of Pavia and Basel .

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Waldo von Reichenau came from a high Franconian family. In 770 he was first attested in St. Gallen as a deacon and writer of documents. For the period from 770 to 779, 17 documents signed or written by him are known. He also made the first dorsal notes on the documents, which is where the orderly storage of the documents, the monastery archive, begins.

The St. Gallen monastery library owed him a substantial enrichment, as he was involved in the production of several codices.

In 782 Waldo was appointed abbot of the St. Gallen Monastery , which led to conflicts with Bishop Egino von Konstanz . Due to these differences, he probably had to resign his abbot in the first half of 784.

Subsequently, he is attested as a monk and from 786 to 806 as abbot of the Reichenau monastery on Lake Constance, where he ran a library and monastery school based on the St. Gallen model. Under his leadership, the Reichenau Monastery developed into an important cultural center in the Carolingian Empire , which is also reflected in the fact that Egino of Verona, on Waldo's permission, chose Reichenau as his retirement home.

As an educator and advisor to King Pippins , Waldo came to Pavia , where he was administrator of the diocese from 791–801. The same function was entrusted to him in the diocese of Basel from an indefinite period up to 802 or 805 . In 806 he was appointed imperial abbot and house bishop of the Abbey of Saint-Denis near Paris and died there on March 29 or 30, 814.

literature

• Donald A. Bullough: "Baiuli" in the Carolingian "regnum Langobardorum" and the Career of Abbot Waldo († 813) . In: The English Historical Review , Vol. 77 (1962), No. 305 (October), pp. 625-637, ISSN  0013-8266
• Peter Erhart: Waldo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Anton Gössi: St. Gallen - Abbots: Waldo, 782–784 . In: Helvetia Sacra , Dept. III: The orders with Benedictine rule. 2/1: Early monasteries, the Benedictines in Switzerland. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, pp. 1270f.
• 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, p. 164f.
• Lexicon of the Middle Ages , Volume 8, Munich 1997, Sp. 1958.
• 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 , pp. 37, 81.
• Jean-Claude Rebetez et al. (Ed.): Pro deo. The diocese of Basel from the 4th to the 16th century, Pruntrut 2006, pp. 51–53.
• Ekkart Sauser :  WALDO. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 1521-1522.

Web links

• http://www.altbasel.ch/fussoten/waldo.html
• Abbot Waldo (782–784) in the city dictionary of the city of Wil.
• Waldo on the website of the St. Gallen Abbey Archives .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vogler: Waldo . In: Helvetia Sacra . S. 1270 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter	Abbot of Reichenau 786-806	Haito

predecessor	Office	successor
Guess	Abbot of St. Gallen 782–784	Werdo

predecessor	Office	successor
...	Abbot of Saint-Denis 805–814	Hilduin