Solomon III (bishop of Constance)
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Solomon III (died 919) was the
Saint Gall, immensely powerful abbeys in Swabia. Solomon founded a church in honour of Saint Magnus
at Saint Gall.
Solomon was a warlike prelate, originally an ally of both King
Erchanger in the wars for the Swabian dukedom against the Burchards. He was influential in the execution of Burchard I in 911, but he left his alliance with Erchanger when the latter allied with King Conrad I
. Erchanger even imprisoned Solomon in 914. Conrad, however, supported the bishop and freed him.
Conrad later had Erchanger beheaded.[1]
Notes
- ^ Switzerland, by Hug, Lina, Mrs, Published 1920
External reading
- von Scheffel, Joseph Viktor (1895). Ekkehard: A tale of the tenth century. Google eBook.