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Ebbo or
Ebo (c.
775-
20 March 851,
Hildesheim,
Saxony) was
archbishop of Rheims from 816 until 835 and again from 840 to 841. He was born a
German serf on the
royal demesne of
Charlemagne. He was educated at his court and became the
librarian and councillor of
Louis the Pious,
king of Aquitaine, son of Charlemagne. When Louis became
emperor, he appointed Ebbo to the
see of
Rheims, then vacant after the death of
Wulfaire.
He was an important figure in the spread of
Christianity in the north of
Europe. At the insistence of Louis, in 822, he went to
Rome and
Pope Pascal I to become the
papal legate to the North. He was licensed to preach to the
Danes and he and
Halitgar,
bishop of Cambrai, and
Willerich,
bishop of Bremen, went there in 823. He made short subsequient trips, but all with little success.
Saint Ansgar was more successful a few years later.
When Louis's sons by his first marriage to
Ermengarde of Hesbaye (
Lothair,
Louis, and
Pepin) rebelled in 830, Ebbo remained loyal. But in 833 he joined the insurrection and on 13 November presided over the
synod in the Church of
Saint Mary in
Soissons which deposed Louis and forced him to publicly confess many crimes, none of which he had, in fact, committed. As a reward Lothair gave Ebbo the
Abbey of Saint Vaast.
He then became a loyal follower of Lothair. He remained with him even after Louis's reinstatement in March 834. When Lothair had to flee to
Italy, however, Ebbo was too ill with
gout to follow and took shelter with a
Parisian
hermit. He was found by Louis' men and imprisoned in the Abbey of
Fulda. Events of the previous year were soon reversed. He was brought to the Synod of
Thionville (2 February 835) and made to admit, in front of 43
bishops, that Louis had never committed the crimes of which he'd accused him. Ebbo publicly recanted from the pulpit in
Mainz on 28 February. The Synod then promptly deposed him. He was again imprisoned in Fulda and later given to
Fréculf,
bishop of Lisieux, and later to
Boso, abbot of
Fleury.
Ebbo was restored when Louis died and Lothair succeeded, in December 840. A year later, however,
Charles the Bald was in control of
France and Ebbo was deposed a second time.
Hincmar was appointed to succeed him in 845 and refused to recognise his acts during his reinstatement. They were declared invalid by the Council of Soissons in 853.
Ebbo went to the court of Lothair, but Pope
Sergius II ignored his pleas to be reinstated (again). When Lothair had no use for Ebbo, however, he was forced to leave that court and go to that of Louis the German. Louis made him
Bishop of Hildesheim (between April 845 and October 847) and it's in this position that he passed from this world to the next on the 20 March 851, in the seat of his diocese.
He wrote the
Apologeticum Ebbonis in defence of his reinstatement. It was probably one of his ordinations from the period of his reinstatement who penned the
Pseudo-Isidorean Decretals. He also assembled artists at
Hautvillers who transformed
Carolingian art into a new thing and founded the so-called Reims School. The beautiful
Gospel Book of Ebbo is their most well known product. His influence in the
Carolingian Renaissance is enormous in the realm of art and illumination.
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