Radim Gaudentius

Gaudentius - Radim ( Czech Radim, Polish Radzim; * 970, † ~ 1006/1012/1022 ) was the first Archbishop of Gniezno. He came from a noble family of Slavnikiden.

Life

Gaudentius - Radim was the son of a concubine of Prince Slavnik and brother of the Prague bishop Adalbert ( Vojtech ). He took 989 with him in the Benedictine monastery of S. Bonifacio e Alessio on the Aventine Hill in Rome and took the name Gaudentius here. He accompanied his brother on his mission to the pagan Prussians in the southern Baltic region 997, where he witnessed his martyrdom and his translation to Gniezno.

Back in Rome, his report supported the canonization Adalbert; he was the main source of the Adalbert -Vita of John Canaparius.

Gaudentius joined a delegation from the Polish duke Bolesław I the Brave, which successfully sought the establishment of a metropolitan church for the whole of Poland, the Pope and the Emperor, and is already before the constitution of the archbishopric of Gniezno in December 999 in a certificate issued in Rome listed as archiepiscopus S. adalberti.

Vague is the message Gaudentius have later excommunicated Bolesław I the Brave. The ascribed authorship of Adalbert Lobgedichtes " Quatuor immensi " (O. Kralik ) according Třeštík lacks any basis.