Solomon I (bishop of Constance)

I. Solomon of Constance ( † 5 March or April 2 871 ) was of 838 / 39-871 Bishop of Constance.

Life

Solomon probably came from a north of Lake Constance established noble family, who was also his nephew Solomon II of Konstanz and the bishops Solomon III. heard by Constance and Waldo of Freising. He was first a monk at Fulda, where he probably teachers Otfrids of White Castle was. Solomon was often found in the vicinity of King Louis the German. He took part in two councils in Mainz part, was at the Ludwig side in the negotiations with the envoys of Charles the Bald and Lothar II in Worms, as well as the peace treaty of the three rulers 860 in Koblenz. In the year 864 was Solomon participants an embassy to Rome to Pope Nicholas I, in which was negotiated among other things, the union of the diocese of Bremen with the Archdiocese of Hamburg. After agreements with Abbot Grimald the independence of the Abbey of St. Gall from the diocese of Constance was confirmed on 22 July 854 in Ulm by King Ludwig in a document. Solomon said 874 Otmar the founder of the monastery of St. Gall holy and consecrated the build for Otmar bones grave chapel. In Wiesensteig he founded a monastery 861, include the creation of clerics Communities in Salmsach and Bischofszell is attributed to him. Solomon promoted the cult of St. Pelagius in his diocese.