Engilbert cannot be unequivocally identified before his abbacy because several monks with the same name appear in the profession book[2] of Saint Gall and in the Verbrüderungsbüchern (confraternity book) of Pfäfers and Reichenau.[3] Four surviving charters from between the years 890 and 896 are thought to have been drafted by the future abbot.[1] Between 895 and 914 two monks are mentioned with the name Engilbert. The future abbot was probably the younger of these. Consequently, Engilbert would have been subdeacon in 895. He is also described as the abbey's porter in a document from 2 July 898.[3]
Engilbert is first attested as abbot on 21 September 925.[1][4] King Henry I of Germany recognized his election and, on 4 November 926,[3] confirmed his abbey's immunity from taxation and the local court, its right to freely elect its own abbot and its right of inquisition over its dependencies. In 933, he retired for reasons of health.[1]
During Engilbert's abbacy in May 926, a major Hungarian raid passed through Swabia.[1] His preemptive measures helped mitigate the damage to the monastery and its inhabitants. He ordered the construction of two castles for the protection of the inhabitants.[3] The elderly and the children were sent for safety to Wasserburg across Lake Constance, while the library was removed to Reichenau Island and the monks took refuge in a fortress on the river Sitter.[1] The legend of Saint Wiborada takes place before and during this Hungarian invasion.
↑ Mayke De Jong, In Samuel's Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West (E. J. Brill, 1996), p. 105: "St Gall habitually registered every newly professed monk into a special codex ... [N]ew monks of St Gall personally wrote out their vow in the profession book..."
1 2 3 4 Werner Vogler, "Kurzbiographien der Äbte", in Johannes Duft, Anton Gössi and Werner Vogler (eds.), Die Abtei St. Gallen (St. Gallen, 1986), p. 113.
↑ Gössi, p. 113, on the other hand, has him elected abbot after 21 September 925 and first mentioned as abbot on 26 May 926.
The Abbey of Saint Gall 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 where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage. It became an independent principality between 9th and 13th centuries, and was for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe. The library of the Abbey is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world.
Bernwig was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 837 to 840/841. On 25 May 837, he was first documented as Abbot of Saint Gall. His date of birth is not known; he died on a 8 December of an unknown year.
Engilbert was for a short time (840/841) Abbot of Saint Gall. His dates of birth and death are unknown. Possibly, he died on a 22 January of an unknown year. An entry in the necrology of Saint Gall cannot definitely be assigned to this Engilbert.
Hartmann was abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Gall.
Thieto was abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Gall from 933 to 942.
Craloh was abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Gall from 942 to 958. During his time in office, the first anti-abbot was elected.
Purchart I was the abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Gall from 958 until 971.
Thietpald was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1022 to 1034.
Nortpert was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1034 to 1072.
Lutold was counter-abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1077 to about 1083. Nothing is known about his life before and after his work in Saint Gall. In the oldest lists of abbots, Lutold is missing.
Werinhar was counter-abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall 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.
Manegold von Mammern was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1121 to 1133. He descended from a noble family from the area around Untersee. He is documented for the years 1125 and 1126.
Werinher was abbot and librarian of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1133 to 1167. He is first documented in March 1134.
Joachim Opser was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1577 until 1594.
Bernhard Müller was prince-abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1594 until 1630. He was the son of Brosi Müller and Magdalena Lutz.
Bernard was abbot of the benedictine Abbey of Saint Gall from 883 until 890.
Heinrich von Ramstein was abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Gall from 1301 until 1318.
Wilhelm I Count of Montfort was prince-abbot of Saint Gall from 1281 until 1301.
Hiltbold von Werstein was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1318 until 1329 and in his capacity as domkustos, also librarian of the Abbey Library.
Heinrich von Wartenberg was anti-abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1272 until 1274.
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