Theotgaud
Theutgaud († 868, also: Dietgold, Tietgaud, Tetgaud, Thietgaud ) was Archbishop of Trier, where he succeeded his uncle Hetti ( 814-847 ).
He is said to have been abbot of Mettlach in front of his chair ascent; the indication that he was archbishop until 851 is based on poorer copies of Regino; in any case the certificate issued by it, the ownership of the altar of St. Castor at Villa Rengsdorf falls on, before the imperial coronation of Louis (April 6, 850).
A heavy storm, which on 15 September 857 the city of Trier met when Theutgaud just celebrated the Mass, and in which a large dog ran around the altar, were the chroniclers occasion, mapped out the evil course of Theutgauds episcopate in such characters to see.
On June 14, 859 Theutgaud participated in the Synod of Savonières part in Toul, also attended by King Charles the Bald and his nephew Lothar and Charles. Ominously was his involvement in the Archbishop Gunthar of Cologne arrangement Lothar II in Aachen held in January 860 Synod, as well as the following in February 860 (also in Aachen ) held larger bishops' meeting, where he was misled by Gunthar, the intentions King Lothar's favor with Waldrade regarding his divorce from Tietberga and his remarriage.
The same year saw him on 22 October at the synod of Thousey at Toul, which was attended by the bishops of the wealthy Charles the Bald, Lothar II and the younger Karl. Probably the year 862 falls his involvement in the dispute of the Archbishop Hincmar of Reims with Bishop Rothad of Soissons, in which matter he wrote as a primate of the Belgian Gaul with his fellow bishops of Cologne, Besançon, Arles and Milan to the bishops in the kingdom of Ludwig II.
On 29 April 862, he appeared with his three suffragans on the third, held in the divorce case of King Lothar of Aachen Synod, and also in June 863 on the Metzer Synod, where he, together with Archbishop Gunthar of Cologne with an embassy to Pope Nicholas I was entrusted. In Rome arrived, both archbishops on a Lateran Synod (October 30, 863) were selected for their favoring of Lothar's adulterous plans undressed and excommunicated by the Pope of their episcopal authority. Bitterly about this treatment, the two went to Benevento to Emperor Louis II, with which they returned early 864 to Rome, hoping to regain their reinstatement. Since the Pope was adamant, they returned to the emperor 's behest back home, and Archbishop Gunthar celebrated already on Maundy Thursday ( March 30) again in his cathedral by overrode the excommunication and the reins of government of his congregation spoke again.
Theutgaud stayed, however, the papal excommunication and contained spiritual functions. However, he negotiated in November 866 in Trier with Lothar, who tried to bring through the mediation of his imperial bishops Queen Thietberga to yourself to accuse a fictitious crime and to take the veil. Pressures of Kings Lothar and Louis the German, Theutgaud be reinstated to his office, sat against pope Nicholas I. persistent resistance. Even Pope Hadrian II, who was Nicholas followed on 13 November 864 was in office, not winning for this step; but he handed Theutgaud on December 14, in St. Peter's Church the sacrament ( the laity communion). Theutgaud, now destitute, received from the Pope a flat in the monastery of St.. Gregorius rely on the clivus Scauri that he, frightened by a vision, soon gave up. He then withdrew into the Sabine country, where he died of a fever with his companions - probably 868 (September 28? ), But the date is not certain.
The life and duties Theutgauds suggests that he was a man of small insights and weak character.