Meinwerk

My work (c. 975 probably in Renkum ( Netherlands); † June 5, 1036 in Paderborn ) was from 1009 to 1036 Bishop of Paderborn.

Life and work

My work came from the scoring for high -Saxon noble family of the Immedinger. His father was Count Immad (or Immed IV ), his mother Adela of Hamaland, one of the two Erbtöchter of Count Wichmann of Hamaland. His older brother was Count Dietrich, who was allegedly murdered at the instigation of the common parent. The sister was Azela Kanonisse in Elten. Another sister - possibly half-sister - was the Holy Emma († December 3, 1038 ), wife of Count Liutger, son of Hermann Billung.

My work was determined as the posthumous son of the spiritual career and visited the cathedral schools in Halberstadt and Hildesheim, where the future King and Emperor Henry II was his classmate. Then he received a canonry at Halberstadt Cathedral. He is a chaplain at the court of Emperor Otto III, since the year 1001. testified. His successor, Henry II, retained his school friend My work as a chaplain and summoned him to the death of the bishop of Paderborn Rethar in March 1009 as his successor. He received episcopal ordination on March 13, 1009 in the Palatinate to Goslar by the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis.

In addition to the close relationship between Henry II and my work was decisive for his elevation to bishop of Paderborn, that my work decreed from his immedingischen origin has considerable inherited wealth. The choice proved to be in fact be a lucky break for the then relatively poor diocese of Paderborn. My work was the Paderborn Cathedral restore (consecrated 1015), founded the monastery Abdinghof and the canons Busdorf in the episcopal city and reformed the religious institutions of the parish. He invested a large portion of its assets in the diocese.

Also known as prince of the empire, he was a mainstay of imperial policy. He regularly attended the Imperial Diet, court days and Synods and moved three times in the royal retinue to Rome, where he was an eyewitness to the imperial coronations of Henry II (1014 ) and Conrad II ( 1027). The Emperor thanked him its services by regularly visited his diocese and he transferred large parts of the counties Haolds II and Dodikos than this in 1011 and 1020 after the death of these counts were available. Henry II sought Paderborn and the local Palatinate seven times, Conrad II even stayed eight times, also mostly on high festivals, in Paderborn.

Shortly after the consecration of which he founded in May 1036 Busdorfstiftes died My work on June 5. His remains were initially in 1014, donated by him also Abdingskapelle their resting place. After the monastery was closed in 1810, they brought the sarcophagus but then in the Busdorfkirche. There he is still in High choir, but some bones were removed in 1936 and buried in the crypt of the cathedral, where they are covered in the Bishop tomb of the sarcophagus lid with the figure of my work. The sarcophagus in the Busdorfkirche has since a plain lid. My work is revered in the Catholic Church as Seliger.

My work life has been described in about 1165 by Abbot Conrad of Abdinghoff ( 1142-1173 ) in the Vita Meinwerci.

Swell

  • Guido M. Berndt: Vita Meinwerci episcopi Patherbrunnensis. Text, Translation, Commentary. The life of Bishop My work of Paderborn. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4914-6.
  • Christoph Brouwer: Vita B. Meinwerci Ecclesiae Paderbornensis Episcopi. Joannes Todt, Paderborn 1681st (online version on the website of the University of Dusseldorf )
  • Franz Tenckhoff (ed.): The Life of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn. Hahn, Hannover 1921. (Online version in the Digital Sammlingen the Munich Digitisation Centre )
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