Egbert (archbishop of Trier)

Egbert of Trier ( also Egbert, Count of Holland; * 950, † December 8 993 ) was 977-993 Archbishop of Trier.

Egberts parents were Count Dietrich II of Holland and Hildegard of Flanders, daughter of Count Arnulf I of Flanders. After his training in the Egmond Abbey, he was chancellor of 976 Otto II This put him 977 as Archbishop of Trier, a, he should safeguard the interests of the Ottoman Empire in this office. 983 Egbert took part on a court day in Verona. 984 he joined Henry the Wrangler to, but submitted to 985 again the imperial power.

He is known as a patron of science and art. Under Egbert was in Trier, probably in St. Maximin Abbey a very productive scriptorium, under whose forces, was one of the greatest book illustrators of the Ottonian book illumination with the so-called Master of the Registrum Gregorii. In cooperation with this scriptorium was created for Egbert by Reichenau painters of the Codex Egberti, evangelistary that Egbert the Abbey of St. Paulin in Trier gave (city library Trier, Ms. 24). Egbert also known as the Egbert Psalter was produced ( Cividale, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cod 136). After Egbert also called Egbert workshop is named, which is considered one of the most important goldsmith workshops of the Ottonian period and is especially known for their emails. Major works are also known as the Egbert Shrine called Andrew's portable altar in the Trier Cathedral, the Peter bar, today in the Limburg Cathedral, and the binding of the codex aureus Epternacensis (now in the Germanic National Museum ). From Egbert Workshop, who also worked on ordering other princes, as is known from letters written by Gerbert of Aurillac as secretary Adalbero Bishop of Reims Egbert, also come the emails the Essen Otto - Mathilda Cross and the Golden Madonna. Next to her the Berlin frame and the Cross - Servatius be attributed to these two works are controversial. As no work of Egbert workshop arose after Egberts death, takes the research that the Essenes Abbess Mathilde craftsmen brought to Essen after Egberts death, where little later with the emails of the Lost Marsus shrine and of the cross with the big Senkschmelzen email production is detectable.

The Catholic Student Association Egbert of Trier in CT has been named after the bishop and refers to his role as a patron of art and science.