Hezel of Hildesheim

Hezilo (also: Hezelo, Hettilo or Ethilo ) of Hildesheim ( 1020-1025 *, † August 5, 1079 in Hildesheim ) was there from 1054 to 1079 Bishop.

Life

Hezilo probably came from a Frankish family and received his theological training at home in Bamberg. Under Emperor Henry III. He was a member of the court orchestra 1051/52, first provost of " St. Simon and Jude " in Goslar in 1053 and then chancellor for Italy. In 1054 he became the successor Azelins Bishop of Hildesheim.

Hezilo was striving to maintain our position of Hildesheim in and around Goslar, in the heart of the Salian landscape, where he the situation during the immaturity of Henry exploited as other leading members of the episcopate (including Adalbert of Bremen, Anno of Cologne ) IV. In Goslar, he founded the St. Jakobi Church.

Hezilos efforts culminated in rank dispute with the abbot of Fulda Widerad that escalated at Pentecost 1063 in Goslar Church to a bloody massacre in the presence of the young king, according to Lampert of Hersfeld by Hezilos personal accentuation of the fighters.

During the Saxon uprising and the Investiture Controversy Hezilo took a partly fluctuating, partly mediating position. First, probably the Saxon King enemies standing near, he entered from 1075, due probably. Heinrichs by military successes, more on the side of the King trailer and was a signatory to the Declaration of antigregorianischen Worms January 24, 1076

At its Hildesheim bishopric Hezilo emerged as one of the great builders and patrons of the arts. The cathedral, which was destroyed by fire in 1046 and its predecessor Azelin by a larger new building had to replace, he had to build on the foundations Altfrid again. He donated the Heziloleuchter in the Cathedral and the Hezilo Cross for which he founded the cross pin.

Emperor Henry IV granted in the year 1062 bishop of Hildesheim Hezilo the forest spell at Coppenbruegge.

Hezilo was buried in the St. Maurice Church.

Swell

  • Lampert of Hersfeld: annals. Lamperti monachi Hersfeldensis Annales. Newly translated by Adolf Schmidt. Erl by Wolfgang Fritz Dietrich. ( = Selected sources on German history of the Middle Ages Freiherr vom Stein Memorial Edition; . 13). University Press, Darmstadt 1957, ISSN 0067-0650
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