Solomon III (bishop of Constance)

Solomon III. of Constance ( * 860, † January 5 919 or 920) was bishop of Constance 890-919 / 920 and abbot of St. Gallen.

He was the great-nephew of Bishop Solomon of Constance I. († 871 ) and brother Waldo of Freising. The student Isos and Notker the Stammerer was 890 Bishop of Constance and Abbot of St. Gallen, playing alongside his patron and friend Hatto of Mainz in the history of the East Frankish Empire by prudence and ambition a significant role.

He had been chancellor for 909 Louis the Child and his successor Conrad I.. Particular, Konrad I, he had great influence and caused him the Swabian Chamber messenger Berthold and Erchanger, with whom he was at feud, and who had taken him prisoner 914, to put to death because of arrogance ducal dignity and insubordination 917. Solomon died in January 919 or 920

In the year 890 he had an important formula book (sample collection of document formulas and letters ) collected ( ed. Dümmler, Leipz 1857. ); also there are two of him poetic epistles to the Bishop of Verdun Dado over the death of his brother and the misfortune of the fatherland.