Reinbern
Reinbern (-1013/15) was the only bishop of the short-lived Diocese of Kolberg) (1000-~1007).
Reinbern was born in the Hassegau area of the medieval Duchy of Saxony.[1] When Holy Roman Emperor Otto III met with his friend, the Polan duke Boleslaw I in the Congress of Gniezno (Gnesen), the Archbishopric of Gniezno was founded.[2][3] One of Gniezno's subordinated bishoprics was the Diocese of Kołobrzeg[2][3][4], thought to Christianize the pagan Pomeranians that just before had been subdued by the Polanes. Reinbern was made bishop.[3][4] It is documented that he "baptized" the Baltic Sea by spilling Holy Oil and Holy Water into the sea, also he demolished shrines of pagan gods.[1][4] Yet, after his bishopric was overthrown in a pagan uprising, he returned to Boleslaw's court. He accompanied Boleslaw to an arranged marriage in Kiev, where an internal Kievian crisis involving Boleslaw's bride led to the arrest of Reinbern in 1012/13.[4] Soon afterwards, he died imprisoned between 1012[4] and 1015.
References
- ^ a b David Warner, Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, Manchester University Press, 2001, p.358, ISBN 0719049261, 9780719049262
- ^ a b Michael Borgolte, Benjamin Scheller, Polen und Deutschland vor 1000 Jahren: Die Berliner Tagung über den"akt von Gnesen", Akademie Verlag, 2002, p.282, ISBN 3050037490, 9783050037493
- ^ a b c Nora Berend, Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' C. 900-1200, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p.293, ISBN 0521876168, 9780521876162
- ^ a b c d e Michael Müller-Wille, Rom und Byzanz im Norden: Mission und Glaubenswechsel im Ostseeraum während des 8.-14. Jahrhunderts: internationale Fachkonferenz der deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Verbindung mit der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz: Kiel, 18.-25. 9. 1994, 1997, p.105, ISBN 3515074988, 9783515074988
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