Nortpert (died after 1076) was
abbot
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The fem ...
of the
Abbey of Saint Gall
The Abbey of Saint Gall (german: Abtei St. Gallen) is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot w ...
from
1034
Year 1034 ( MXXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Byzantine Empire
* April 11 – Emperor Romanos III (Argyros) is drowned in his bath, at the urg ...
to
1072
Year 1072 ( MLXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* June 29 – Romanos IV (Diogenes), deposed emperor of the Byzantine Empire, ...
.
Works
Nortpert was called to Saint Gall from the reform monastery Stavelot in order to reintroduce a strict monastic way of life. Despite resistance on the part of the monks of Saint Gall, he was able to successfully assert a reform programme. In 1040, he welcomed King
Henry III whom he accompanied on his campaign in Italy in 1046. In Rome in 1047, he obtained the
canonisation
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of s ...
of Saint Gall's local saint
Wiborada
Wiborada of St. Gall (also Guiborat, Weibrath or Viborata; Alemannic: ''Wiberat'') (died 926) was a member of the Swabian nobility in what is present-day Switzerland. She was an anchoress, Benedictine nun, and martyr.
Biography
There are two bi ...
who died as a
martyr
A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an externa ...
in the course of the
Hungarian invasions
The Hungarian invasions of Europe ( hu, kalandozások, german: Ungarneinfälle) took place in the 9th and 10th centuries,
the period of transition in the history of Europe in the Early Middle Ages, when the territory of the former Carolingian Em ...
. As an abbot who tried to preserve the property rights of his monastery, he came into a bloody conflict with Bishop
Rumold von Konstanz. After 38 years in office, he abdicated in 1072.
Sources
Nortperton the website of the Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen.
Nortpertin the Stadtlexikon Wil. Quoted after Duft, Johannes: ''Die Abtei St. Gallen''.
References
Abbots of Saint Gall
11th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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