Adalgar (died 9 May 909) was the third archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen from 888 until his death. Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Events By Place Africa The Aghlabid dynasty in North Africa is overthrown by the Fatimids. The Archdiocese of Bremen is a historical Roman Catholic diocese and a former eccesiastical state in the Holy Roman Empire.
When Rimbert, who was appointed in 865 to succeed Ansgar, the first archbishop of Hamburg, died at the abbey of Corvey, the abbot Adalgar gave him his brother, also named Adalgar, as a companion. Saint Rimbert or Rembert (d 11 June, 888) was Archbishop of Bremen -Hamburg from 865 until his death Events By Place Europe Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 866) Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, ( September 8 ? 801 &ndash February 3, 865) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany Corvey Abbey or the Imperial Abbey of Corvey (Fürstabtei Corvey was a Benedictine monastery on the River Weser, 2km northeast of Höxter, now The younger Adalgar was then a deacon. Deacon is a role in the Christian Church that is generally associated with service of some kind but which varies among theological and denominational traditions Toward the end of Rimbert’s life he was consecrated bishop to assist the latter; and he succeeded him in the archbishopric on 11 June 888. A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. This article is about the year AD 888 For other uses see 888 (disambiguation. During the latter half of his twenty years’ rule, age and infirmity made it necessary for him also to have a coadjutor in the person of Hoger, another monk of Corvey; and later five neighboring bishops were charged to assist the archbishop in his metropolitan duties.
Adalgar lived in troublous times. Although Arnulf’s victory over the Normans (891) was a relief to his diocese, and although under Louis the Child (900-911) it suffered less from Hungarian onslaughts than the districts to the south and east of it, yet the general confusion restricted Adalgar’s activity, and he was able to do very little in the northern kingdoms which were supposed to be part of his mission. Arnulf of Carinthia (Arnulf von Kärnten Arnulf Koroški 850 &ndash December 8 899) was the Carolingian King of East Francia from 887 The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. Louis the Child (893 &ndash 20/ 24 September 911) sometimes called Louis IV or Louis III, was the last Carolingian ruler of Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic There were also new contests over the relation of Bremen to the archiepiscopal see of Cologne. Bremen (ˈbʁeːmən is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany (official name Stadtgemeinde Bremen / City Municipality of Bremen The Electorate of Cologne (Kurfürstentum Köln or Kurköln) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire and existed from the 10th to the early 19th
Bremen had originally been under the jurisdiction of Cologne; but this relation was dissolved on the reestablishment of the archbishopric of Hamburg in 848; and Pope Nicholas I had confirmed the subordination of Bremen to Hamburg in 864. Events By Place Europe The Saracens destroy Leontini. Charles the Bald, Louis the German and Pope Events By Place Europe July 25 - Edict of Pistres: Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings In 890 Archbishop Hermann of Cologne wrote to Pope Stephen V, demanding that the archbishop of Hamburg, as bishop of Bremen be subject to him. Events By Place Europe The sovereignty of Great Moravian king Svatopluk I in Bohemia is confirmed Pope Stephen V, (885-891 succeeded Pope Adrian III, and was in turn succeeded by Pope Formosus.
The course of the controversy is somewhat obscure; but it is known that Stephen cited both contestants to Rome, and when Adalgar alone appeared, Hermann being represented by delegates with unsatisfactory credentials, the pope referred the matter to Archbishop Fulk of Reims, to decide in a synod at Worms. Worms (voɐms is a City in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine River In the mean time Stephen died; and his successor Formosus placed the investigation in the hands of a synod which met at Frankfort in 892 under Hatto of Mainz. Formosus (c 816 in Ostia &ndash896 was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 891 to 896 Frankfort may refer to Places In the United States of America: Frankfort Illinois Frankfort Indiana Events By Place Europe Poppo of Thuringia, count of the march in Thuringia, is deposed by the German Carolingian king On the basis of its report, Formosus decided that Bremen should be united to Hamburg so long as the latter had no suffragan sees, but should revert to Cologne when any were erected, the archbishop of Hamburg meanwhile taking part in the provincial synods of Cologne, without thereby admitting his subordination.
Little is known of Adalgar’s personality. From the way in which Rimbert’s biographer and Adam of Bremen speak of him, he seems to have been a man of some force, but perhaps not strong enough for the difficult times in which his activity was cast. Adam of Bremen (also Adam Bremensis) was one of the most important German Medieval Chroniclers He lived and worked in the second half of the
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- mittelalter-genealogie.de (German)
| Preceded by Rimbert |
Archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg 888-909 |
Succeeded by Huggar |
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