Werinhar was counter-abbot of the

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from 1083 to 1086. Nothing is known about his life before and after his work in Saint Gall. He is documented neither in the obituary of Saint Gall nor in that of Reichenau.

Works

In the course of the

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, Counter-king

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replaced Lutold, who had been appointed as counter-abbot of Saint Gall by Hermann's predecessor

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, with Werinhar, a monk from Reichenau. Subsequently, Ekkehart, the Abbot of Reichenau tried repeatedly to establish Werinhar in Saint Gall. However, Werinhar actually only presided over the abbey for a short time, probably around the year 1086, when Abbot Ulrich of Eppenstein, who had been appointed by King Henry IV, assumed the

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. Apparently, he was so heavily pressured by Ulrich's followers in Saint Gall that he voluntarily abdicated that same year.

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External links

Werinhar
on the website of the Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen.
Werinhar
in the Stadtlexikon Wil. Quoted after Duft, Johannes: ''Die Abtei St. Gallen''. Benedictine monks Abbots of Saint Gall Benedictine abbots 11th-century European people {{Christian-clergy-stub