Gauzelin of Toul
Gauzlin († September 7 962) was Bishop of Toul from 922 until his death. He was a member of the law firm of King Charles the Simple and founder of the Abbey Bouxières -aux -Dames.
Life
Gauzlin came from the nobility probably the Bassigny in whose noble family his name is frequently represented. He also is likely to be related to the Bishop of Langres Gauzlin ( 922-931 ), and thus also the other bishops of this diocese. In the years 913-922 he is attested as a notary in the law firm of King Charles, from where he moved to the bishop's throne in Toul, he was ordained on March 17, 922
At the time of establishment of the Lorraine Toul belonged to the West Frankish kingdom. But when shortly after Gauzlins ordination on 30 June 922, with King Charles Robert I got a rival king, and Charles himself at the Battle of Soissons on 15 June 923 defeated his opponents, the time of affiliation Lorraine went to West Francia to end. In 925, to Duke of Lorraine Giselbert subjugated the East Frankish King Henry I, but all of which, though partisans of Charles, did not alter Gauzlins position. His relations with Henry I and Otto I were so good that he arranged for the transfer of abbeys and privileges, including the rights of Count of Toul - in the year 930 he set for worldly concerns with a Guy Count of Toul under his supremacy a.
His greatest importance he gained as a monastery reformer ( Lorraine → reform monastic reform of Gorze ) in his diocese and in close coordination with the neighboring dioceses of Metz and Verdun. He founded the monastery Bouxières -aux -Dames and introduced here as well as in Saint- Èvre (St. Aper ) in Toul 930/934 the Benedictine rule modeled after the Abbey Fleury. In Saint- Èvre he sat Erchembald as the abbot and Adso as Scholaster, who later became abbot of Montier -en-Der was.
Gauzlin took part in the synods of Verdun ( 947), Mouzon and the Universal Synod of Ingelheim ( 948 ), where it was mainly about the occupation of the archbishop's chair in Reims. He was buried in Bouxières -aux -Dames. Gauzlin was canonized, his feast day is September 2.
Swell
- Corpus Consuetudinum Monasticarum VII, 1, 1984, 343F. [ Kassius Hallinger ]
- Monumenta Historica Scriptores Germaniae ( in Folio) IV, 487 ( Widrici vita S. Gerardi episcopi Tullensis )
- V 40-41 ( Annales S. Benigni Divionensis )
- VIII 639-641 ( Gesta episcoporum Tullensium usque ad a 1106)