Amalarius of Metz
850) was a Frankish prelate and courtier, temporary bishop of Trier (812–13) and Lyon (835–38), and an accomplished liturgist. He was close to Charlemagne and a partisan of his successor, Louis the Pious, throughout the latter's tumultuous reign. He was appointed the third archbishop of Trier in 811 by Charlemagne.
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Amalarius of Metz
Amalarius Metensis · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 775 · Metz.
- Died
- 850 · Metz.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- poet · writer · catholic priest
- Languages
- French · Old French
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850) was a Frankish prelate and courtier, temporary bishop of Trier (812–13) and Lyon (835–38), and an accomplished liturgist. He was close to Charlemagne and a partisan of his successor, Louis the Pious, throughout the latter's tumultuous reign. He was appointed the third archbishop of Trier in 811 by Charlemagne.
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In 813 he was sent as the chief Frankish ambassador to the court of Michael I Rhangabes at Constantinople. In 831, Amalarius travelled to Rome to meet Pope Gregory IV and arrange a new Frankish liturgy. In 835, he replaced Agobard at the Synod of Diedenhofen. During Agobard's exile (c. 834) he was responsible for administering the Diocese of Lyon. He implemented liturgical reforms. He wrote extensively on the Mass, including the Liber officialis (see plowboy trope) and the De ordine antiphonarii, and was involved in the great medieval debates regarding predestination. We must rely on his enemy, Florus of Lyon, for an account of Amalarius' condemnation on the accusation of heresy at Quierzy, 838, which banned some of his works. Nevertheless, his writings form a good portion of our current documentation of the ninth century liturgies of the Western Church. While the exact date of his death is not known, it is believed that it happened around 850 in Metz.
Amalarius of Metz is recorded as poet, writer and catholic priest. The authorities additionally record the headings Amalarius and Amalarius of Trier.
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Amalarius of Metz born at Metz.
850
Amalarius of Metz died at Metz.
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- 1.Eric Palazzo, "Amalarius of Metz", in André Vauchez (a cura di), Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, (2002)
- 2.On the Liturgy, ed. Eric Knibbs, 2 vols., Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2014)
- 3.Eleanor Shipley Duckett, Carolingian Portraits: A Study in the Ninth Century, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1962.
- 4.M. Colish. La cultura del Medioevo. Il Mulino. 2001. 978-88-15083104.
- 5.Claudio Ubaldo Cortoni. Habeas Corpus. Il corpo di Cristo dalla devozione alla sua umanità al culto eucaristico (Sec. VIII-XV). EOS. 2017.
- 6.«Additiones Mettenses in Martyrologium ex codice bernensi 289», a cura di W. Jaffè, in Acta sanctorum Octobris, vol. 13, a cura di J. van Hecke-B. Bossue-V. Buck-R. de Buck, Parisiis, Victorem Palmè, 1883, p. xiii.
- 7.Si tratta di un monastero fondato nel IV secolo nella città di Metz dal vescovo san Paziente e dedicato ai Santi Appostoli e, successivamente, a sant’Arnolfo. Dal VII secolo fu abbazia benedettina. Cf. G.M. Capuani-D. Tuniz, «Glossario», in Radulphus Glaber [Rodolfo il Glabro], Vita Domni Willelmi Abbatis [Vita di Guglielmo protagonista dell'anno Mille], a cura di G.M. Capuani-D. Tuniz, Europìa, Milano 1989, 105.
- 8.Sant'Amalario Fortunato di Treviri Vescovo.
- 9.Cf. A.M. Zimmermann, «Amalario di Metz», in Bibliotheca sanctorum. Enciclopedia dei santi vol.1, a cura di G. Morelli, F. Caraffa, G. D'Alessandro, Roma, Città Nuova, 1998, 912.
- 10.Alphonsus Ciacconius. Vitae, et Res Gestae Pontificum Romanorum et S.R.E. Cardinalium. Ab initio nascentis Ecclesiæ usque ad Clementem IX P.O.M. vol. 1. Philippi, et Ant. de Rubeis. 1677.
- 11.Cf. G. Morin, «La question des deux Amalaire», RB 8 (1891), pp. 433-442.
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