Bardo (bishop)
Bardo (* 980 or 981 in Oppershofen; † 10 or June 11, 1051 in Dornloh, Thuringia ) was a monk in Fulda, abbot of becoming and Helmstedt and Archbishop of Mainz.
Life
Bardo - so the two more contemporary biographies about the monk, abbot and Archbishop - was born the son of Adalbero and Christina in Habprahteshoven. Habprahteshoven means " to the courts of the Hadupracht ". These farms were in the village district of Oppershofen in the Wetterau. The exact locality is not known. Since Bardo had built a church next to the Münschhof, go guesses in the direction that this was Habprahteshoven.
He received his spiritual training in the monastery of Fulda, where he was elected in 1018 as dean and provost of the Fulda provost Neuenberg. End of March 1029 Emperor Conrad II visited the monastery; there was a first meeting between the monk and the ruler of the end of 1029 or early 1030 Bardo - bypassing the freedom of Abtswahl - Head of the Werden monastery certain ( 1029 -1031? ). The new abbot is said to have placed on the obedience of the monks and the maintenance of worship special value. Praised be the hospitality Bardos and his care for the poor.
At the beginning of 1031 Bardo was the mediation of the Empress Gisela of Swabia also Abbot of Hersfeld. Since in this context Bardos relationship was noted with the Empress, he appears as a member of the family of Conradines. Even at Pentecost 1031 (30 May ), after the death of the Archbishop of Mainz Aribo ( 1021-1031 ) Bardo was called by his imperial patron Konrad on the vacated chair and Archbishop invested with ring and staff. His elevation to Archbishop of Mainz took place at St. Peter and Paul (June 29 ) in Goslar; Bardo was no longer abbot of becoming and Hersfeld.
As archbishop, he is in the years leading up to his death in many cases around the ruler Conrad II and Henry III. Find (1039-1056): On November 11, 1036 he consecrated in the presence of both the Salian newly expanded Mainz Cathedral; in September 1041 (?) he participated in a campaign of Henry III. part against Bohemia; in the fall of 1043 he anointed Agnes of Poitou (approx. 1025-1077 ), the wife of Henry III. , to the queen. Consecration of churches and altars are also delivered as Bardos influence when filling vacant bishoprics. At a meeting held in Mainz on October 19, 1049 Synod Bardos chaired the participating bishops spoke in the presence of Henry III. against from simony and clerical marriage. Again met archbishop and the Emperor at Pentecost 1051 (19 May ) together in Paderborn. On his return to Mainz ill Bardo hard and died on 10 or June 11, 1051 in the Thuringian Dornloh, today Oberdorla. His body was buried in Mainz Cathedral.
Even in the decade of his death year produced two hagiographic biographies Bardos. The older was given by the Archbishop Bardos successor Luitpold commissioned and written by a chaplain named Vulkuld. The younger Vita was written by an unknown monk of the Abbey of Fulda. As a potential author Bardos eponymous nephew is considered, which should be abbot of the Abbey of Saint Alban of Mainz later.
Bardo is revered in some German Catholic dioceses as a saint.
Swell
- Johann Friedrich Böhmer: Regesta archiepiscoporum Maguntiensium. Regesten the history of the archbishops of Mainz from Boniface to Henry II, Vol.1 ( 742 -1288? ): From Boniface to Arnold 742 -1160, Innsbruck 21886, reprint Aalen 1966, p.165 -176
- Regesta Imperii justified, v. Johann Friedrich Böhmer, Edit. and ed. vd Austrian Academy of Sciences ( and of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz ):
- Vita auctore Vulculdo, In: Georg Heinrich Pertz et al (eds): Scriptores ( in folio ) 11: Historiae aevi Salici. Hannover 1854, pp. 317-321 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
- Vita Bardonis maior, in: Georg Heinrich Pertz et al (eds): Scriptores ( in folio ) 11: Historiae aevi Salici. Hannover 1854, pp. 321-342 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )