Richbod

Richbod († October 1 804 in Trier ) was since the year 784 the abbot of the monastery of Lorsch was around 791 Archbishop of the Diocese of Trier, and thus at the same time head of the abbey in Mettlach.

Richbod a student of the Frankish scholar Alcuin was ( 735-804 ). With its attributable to the foot of the ancient education Richbod was one of the representatives of the Carolingian Renaissance in the reign of Charlemagne. In the letters of his teacher, it occurs under the graecisierten name Macarius. Little is handed down to his person. Alcuin, with whom he had a lasting relationship of friendship to his students have teased Richbod because of his fondness for the Roman poet Virgil, Aeneid, whose work he knew better than the Gospels, however, to have been convinced of Richbods scholarship and orthodoxy. Four years after the Synod of Frankfurt 794, in the year 798 again came up the faith dispute with representatives of the teaching of Adoptionism, prompted Alcuin, that Richbod a copy of a pamphlet of the Catalan bishop Felix of Urgell, the principal representatives of the condemned at the Synod as heresy teaching, was to submit a rebuttal. From the work Richbods in the abbeys and the Archbishopric of Trier little is known. He is said to have caused there include the construction of a three-aisled church. Richbod died in 804 in Trier and was buried in the monastery of Lorsch.