Waltcaud

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Waltcaud (also Walcaud , Walcand , Valcand , Waltgaud ) was Bishop of Liège from 810/811 to 831 (?) .

Life

Nothing further is known about the family background. He probably came from the diocese of Liège . In the High Middle Ages it was reported that he should have had a father named Adelred who had accompanied Charlemagne to Rome .

He was first mentioned in 811 as the successor to Gerobald von Lüttich . He was one of the witnesses who certified Charlemagne's will. In 813 the emperor visited Liège. The relationship with Louis the Pious , who stayed in Liège shortly after Charles's death in 814, was just as good .

Waltcaud was a promoter of church reform. In 816/17 he took part in the synod in Aachen at the time of Louis the Pious, at which the way of life of the canons and canons was regulated. Against this background he regulated life in the churches of St. Lambert in Liège , Notre Dame in Tongeren and St. Servatius in Maastricht .

In 817 he replaced the canons in d'Andage with Benedictine monks. However, he did not succeed in replacing the previous own rules in the Nivelles monastery with the Benedictine rule . On the contrary, the abbess there caused resistance in other monasteries as well as in Cologne. The pens turned to the Pope for help. Louis the Pious asked the Pope to confirm the decisions of the council in the case of Nivelle as well. However, the pens involved continued to adhere to a negative attitude. However, a number of abbesses were later deposed.

In 820, parts of the Liège diocese were first threatened by Vikings . Louis the Pious visited Liège again in 825. In 825 the bishop had the bones of his predecessor Hubertus von Liège, who died in 727, transferred to the d'Andage monastery. For this purpose he asked Bishop Jonas von Orléans for a new version of the Vita and a translation report of Saint Hubert. Waltcaud was mentioned for the last time in a document to Ludwig the Pious from April 19, 831. His death date is not known. He was buried in Serinchamps .

A chapter has been preserved from him .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charlemagne - RI I n. 458
  2. ^ Nivelles In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Vol. 21 Berlin, 2002 p. 229
  3. ^ Franz J. Felten: How noble were canonical pens (and other female convents) in the early and high Middle Ages. In. Studies on the canonical pen. Göttingen, 2001 p. 113f.
  4. ↑ Entry in geschichtsquellen.de
  5. ↑ Ludwig the Pious - RI I n. 888
  6. ↑ digitized version

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SURNAME Waltcaud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Liege
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
DATE OF DEATH 9th century