Hildegar (bishop of Cologne)
Hildegar (also Hildiger or Hildeger; died 8 August 753) was the
Merovingians
in 751.
After the appointment of
Boniface, Hildegar claimed metropolitan rights over the see.[2] Boniface denied the charge in a letter to Pope Stephen II,[3] although Marco Mostert has indicated that Boniface's narrative and arguments are flawed, if not outright lies.[4]
After a group of
Pippin the Short led a punitive expedition with "a large siege train" (magno apparatu) against them.[5] Hildegar took part in the war and died defending the fortress (castrum) of Juberg or Iburg (Ihburg) near Osnabrück.[6] He was probably commanding the levies of Cologne as a garrison.[6][7]
Notes
- ^ Collins 1998, p. 47.
- ^ Knibbs 2011, p. 31.
- ^ Farmer 2011, p. 107.
- ^ Mostert 1995.
- ^ Hines 2003, p. 300.
- ^ a b Petersen 2013, p. 248 n. 199.
- ^ Bachrach 2001, p. 287.
Sources
- Bachrach, Bernard(2001). Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Collins, Roger (1998). Charlemagne. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Farmer, David, ed. (2011). "Cunibert of Cologne". The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (5th rev. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 107–08.
- Hines, John (2003). "The Conversion of the Old Saxons". In Green, D. H.; Siegmund, F. (eds.). The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective. Woodbridge: Boydell. pp. 299–313.
- Knibbs, Eric (2011). Ansgar, Rimbert, and the Forged Foundations of Hamburg-Bremen. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Mostert, Marco (1995). "Bonifatius als Geschiedvervalser". Madoc: Tijdschrift voor Mediëvistiek. 9 (1): 213–21.
- Petersen, Leif Inge Ree (2013). Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400–800 AD): Byzantium, the West and Islam. Leiden: Brill.