Adaldag

Adaldag, also Adelgis or Adelger, (* 900, † April 28 988 in Bremen ) was a monk of the Benedictine Order and Archbishop of Hamburg- Bremen from 937 to 988

Adaldag came from a noble Saxon family. Through his teachers and relatives Adalward of Verden he arrived at the court of Otto I, where he was a member of the royal chapel as a canon of Hildesheim. Before he was appointed Archbishop of 937 Hamburg- Bremen, he was chancellor of the king.

As Archbishop of Hamburg- Bremen, he was on the Universal Synod of Ingelheim 948 acquire the first suffragan dioceses, namely Schleswig, Ripen and Aarhus, for his archbishopric. To 968 also the bishopric of Oldenburg was the Archbishopric of Hamburg -Bremen assumed. The trial of Archbishop Bruno of Cologne, the Archbishopric of Hamburg -Bremen again to insinuate the Archdiocese of Cologne, Adaldag managed to ward and 966 reach the immunity for his archbishopric. This was finally separated from the Archdiocese of Cologne sure. In the new suffragans he continued the mission begun by his predecessors. But the Slavs uprising of 983 made ​​many achievements destroyed again.

He accompanied Otto I to its second Italian 961-965 and took there part in the two councils on which the popes John XII. and Benedict V were sold. The deposed Pope Benedict V was assumed Adaldag and spent, demoted to a deacon, his life in Hamburg. After the death of Otto I. Adaldag was the Ottonian still very close. From Rome he returned 965 with the relics of Cosmas and Damian to Bremen, which were kept to 1649 in Bremen Cathedral. A long respected as Adaldagsiegel stamp is now assigned to the Archbishop of Mainz, Erkan soon.