Wido by Adwert

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Wido von Adwert († January 23 around 1240 in Klaarkamp Monastery ) was a Dutch Cistercian monk . He was abbot of Klaarkamp Abbey ( Friesland ) and previously elected abbot of Aduard Abbey (near Groningen ).

After Abbot Albertus I von Aduard died on November 25, 1216, Wido, Prior in Klaarkamp, ​​was elected as his successor. Caesarius von Heisterbach reports in his Dialogus miraculorum (1219–1223) of this election, also that Wido officiated as abbot. However, he is not mentioned in the abbey's chronicle, so it can be assumed that he refused the election.

What is certain, however, is that he was elected as the successor to Abbot Gerbrandus von Klaarkamp, ​​who died on October 13 (probably October 13, 1218) in the French monastery of Foigny ( Picardy ). Until the news of Gerbrandus' death arrived and the preparations for the election of the new abbot were completed, a few months will have passed, especially since the abbot of Clairvaux (probably Wilhelm I, who headed the monastery from 1217–1221), the Cistercian mother monastery , which Heisterbacher Abbot Heinrich sent to Klaarkamp to lead the election.

It is certain that Wido accepted this election, but not how long he was abbot of Klaarkamp, ​​since the documents of the monastery that was abolished in 1580 have not been preserved. He died on January 23rd, probably around the year 1240.

Wido von Adwert is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church, his feast day is January 23, the day of his death.

At the time of Wido, the monk Efferindus lived in Klaarkamp, ​​to whom Caesarius von Heisterbach addressed the foreword to his work Fasciculus moralitatis .

literature

  • Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW) , Vol. 4. Sijthoff, Leiden 1918, p. 683.
  • Johannes A. Mol: De abtenkroniek van Aduard. Studies, editie en vertaling. Hilversum 2010, ISBN 978-90-8704-116-8 , p. 333.
  • Wido von Adwert , in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography), online , version from December 4, 2014,

Remarks

  1. ^ Mol 2010, p. 333.
  2. ↑ NNBW 1918, p. 683.
personal data
SURNAME Adwert, Wido from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Klaarkamp Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH January 23 at 1240
Place of death Klaarkamp Monastery