Megingoz
Megingaud (* 710 in Franconia, † 783 in Neustadt am Main ) was by Burkard the second Bishop of Würzburg ( 754 February - 769 beginning). He belonged to the wealthy family of the East Frankish Matt Onen and was noisy Lorenz Fries Count of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Life
Megingaud (also Megingoz or Megingotus ) is considered a student of St. Boniface and is mentioned 738 as a monk and deacon in the Hessian convent Frideslar ( Fritzlar ), which was founded by Boniface. The spiritual care of the monastery inmates and teaching in the convent school, where he had been entrusted. Also ensures There he made the acquaintance of Lull, who later became the first Archbishop of Mainz, and of Sturmius, founder of the Abbey of Fulda.
In the year 742 Megingaud was probably used by Burkard and Boniface as abbot in the monastery cell Rorlach / Rorinlacha. Burkard and Boniface knew Megingaud some time.
As Burkard abdicated in 754 as Bishop of Würzburg, was Megingaud of King Pippin the Younger ( the III. ) Appointed Bishop of Würzburg and was consecrated by Boniface for the second Bishop of Würzburg. Like its predecessor, Burkard took Megingaud active part in the business of the Frankish empire, and was therefore often go to imperial assemblies and synods. In the year 755 he consecrated the crypt of Neumünster in Würzburg. 757 he took (referred to as Mangaudus ) at the Council in Compiègne part. 762 he is mentioned (as Megingaudus ) in the allocation of the monastery of Prüm. 765 he took (referred to as Megingozus ) participated in the Synod of Attigny.
Greatest interest had Megingaud on theology and practical pastoral care, as obtained three letters indicate Lul Archbishop of Mainz. On Megingauds and LULs excitation, the oldest biography of St. goes. Boniface ( Vita St. Bonifatii auctore Willi Baldo ) back. It was written around 760 of Wilbald.
769 Megingaud renounced his episcopate, retired with some monks back to the place Rorlach / Rorinlacha and then founded a new Benedictine monastery on the " new governor ", today's New Town.
His successor Berowelf, the Megingaud until his death, harassed, sent him, according to the Vita Burkardi later after 50 -religionists and trailers to Neustadt. Probably the planned missionary Saxony of Charlemagne played a role. Karl began with the conquest of territory in Saxony in 772, after his brother Carloman died in December 771. Charlemagne sent sure the 50 monks from Würzburg to Neustadt, because he needed them as missionaries and for them an education center, and one of them was the monastery Neustadt.
May 772: Certificate of Charlemagne at Neustadt monastery, Abbot Megingaud, with the contents: King protection and immunity ( by Dr. Henry Wagner).
September 1 774: Consecration of Nazariusbasilika in Lorsch by the Bishop of Mainz Lul. Charlemagne lived in, made a stop on his way from Rome to Fritzlar. Besides Megingaud, not the then Bishop of Würzburg Berowelf, assisted the spiritual elite of the time: Weomad of Trier and the head of the court clergy, Bishop of Metz Angilramn.
August 781: Certificate of Charlemagne at Neustadt monastery, Abbot Megingaud, with the contents: certificate of ownership of the monastery Mark ( according to Dr. Henry Wagner).
August 22 781: Consecration of the Carolingian monastery with the Abbey Church of Peter and Paul on the " new establishment" ( Nivenstat, Nuovenstatt ). Apart from Charlemagne to have attended the bishops of Mainz Willibald of Eichstätt and Lull.
After his death on 24th/26th. September 783 (not 796 ) Megingaud was first buried in Neustadt. Later, his coffin was brought to Würzburg in the Salvator Cathedral, the later Neumünsterkirche. The sarcophagus, which was in the 14th century under the stairs of the organ, in 1711 transferred to the Kilian tomb and stands today in the Western crypt of the church Neumünster. One can assume that the coffin was made in Neustadt (Lit.: Herrmann, 1986).
Grave inscription
The Versinschrift ( in couplets ) on the coffin plate of Bishop Megingaud is the oldest surviving monumental inscription franc after the Roman period.
Latin Text
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Translation
(Lit.: Herrmann, 1986)
Eulogy Mainguts
From Bishops of Würzburg, written by Master Lorenz Fries, secretary of 3 Würzburg prince- bishops. Written from documentary sources around the year 1546.
Bishop Mainguet The noble Fruet ( prince) Has no Muet On time- honor, Then he considered, The worldly splendor Him with all power From God's teaching ' 'd ' Pull off, That's why he gave His estate and belongings In other dealers ' And looking at all fast His ' old cell ' In it, he glaringly Ended his end.