Hatto I (archbishop of Mainz)

Hatto I. OSB (* 850, † May 15 913) was 888-913 abbot of the monastery of Reichenau and other imperial monasteries, Archbishop of Mainz ( 891-913 ) and arch-chancellor of the Eastern Frankish Empire.

Life

The spelling of the name Hatto varied. It can be found: Hatto, Haddo, Hadtho, Haito, Heito, Hato, Havto, Hathor, Hetto, Atto, Addo; the spelling Hatto is the most common.

Hatto was born around 850 as a child of a Swabian noble family. Hatto, who was also formed literary and versed in canon law, was a follower of King Arnulf of Carinthia ( 888-899 ), with whom he had known since at least November 887. In the follow Liutberts ( 863-889 ), who had significantly influenced political events in the Carolingian kingdoms including as Lord Chancellor in the East Franks, Arnulf Hatto appointed in September 891 Archbishop of probably the most important bishopric of his territory. Even before this had become Hatto (as Hatto III. ) Abbot of the monastery of Reichenau Lake Constance ( 888) and head of the abbey Ellwangen. Later the imperial monasteries Lorsch, White Castle and Klingenmünster him were transmitted so that Hatto could have a number of abbeys. He sat in the course of its various Abbatiate in his subordinate spiritual communities the right of monks on a free Abtswahl by and urged that they received from the East Frankish ruler King privileges (including possession confirmations).

The abbeys on its income formed the basis for Hatto use on not only the East Frankish policy field. The Archbishop of Mainz accompanied, among others, early 894 and in winter 895/96 the king on his Italian expeditions, which ultimately led to the emperor Arnulf's coronation on 15 February 22 or 896. At the election of the legitimate, but still underage Arnulf 's son Ludwig IV of the child to the East Frankish king ( 900-911 ) Hatto was instrumental, as in the reign of this king. He and other oppressed in the year 906 the uprising of the Babenberg Adalbert ( Babenberg feud ), who was captured after the invasion of Babenberg on the Conradines at the Battle of Fritzlar and (after breaking Hatto promise of safe conduct ) was executed; so that the Frankish duke fell to the Conradines in the person Conrad the Younger, whose father Conrad the Elder, as well as both brothers Adalbert, had fallen at 906 Fritzlar. The good relationship Hatto to the Konradihaus Africans will not last in the collection of Conrad I ( 911-918 ), king recognizable.

A great proximity to the rulers Arnulf, Louis and Conrad I drew so from the Archbishop of Mainz, as well as a certain ruthlessness. The latter he proved not only at break his promise of safe conduct for Adalbert von Babenberg, but also in his later attempt to assassinate Duke Henry of Saxony by treachery.

Hatto was also a man of high theological education, was quite capable of the synods of Frankfurt ( 892 ) and Tribur ( 895 ) to shape decisively.

Hatto died on 15 May 913 To death Hatto entwines the legend of Binger Mouse Tower. Then Hatto said to have been eaten as a punishment for the hard-hearted treatment of the starving population of mice in which standing on a island in the Rhine Tower at Bingen in the living body. Since the 19th century this legend, in particular attributed due to the publications of the historian Cornelius Will, Hatto I., after she had previously mainly due to one of his successors, Hatto II, based.

Swell

  • Widukind of Corvey: The Saxons story of Widukind of Corvey. In: sources on the history of the Saxon Empire. Translated by Albert Bauer and Reinhold Rau. Darmstadt 1971, p 1-183 ( Freiherr- vom-Stein Memorial Edition, Volume 8).
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