Guibertus of Gorze

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Saint Guibert of Gorze (892 - 23 May 962) is the founder of Gembloux Abbey, in Gembloux (Namur, Belgium). He was canonized in 1211. [1] Saint Guibert's Day is observed on 23 May.

Biography

An aristocrat from Lotharingia who had participated in several military campaigns, Guibert withdrew as a hermit on family property in Gembloux (formerly Gemblours) inherited from his father. In 936 he founded a fortified and almost independent monastery (having its own currency). [2] The monastery was dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle and the holy martyr Exuperius. [3]

Guibert was assisted in this by Erluin, who had resigned a canonry to become a monk. Some of Guibert's relatives impugned the legality of the monastic foundation on the plea that the monastery was built on fiscal land which had been given in fief to Guibert's ancestors and could not be alienated without imperial authority. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor summoned Guibert and Erluin to his court, but was so favourably impressed with the manner in which they defended their pious undertaking that on 20 September, 946, he issued an imperial diploma approving the foundation of Gemblours and granting it various privileges. [3]

Guibert appointed his friend Erluin first Abbot of Gemblours, while he himself become a monk at the monastery of Gorze near Metz. After his stay at Gorze Abbey in Lorraine, he returned in 954 when Hungarians invaders threatened to pillage the monastery. He brought with him the Rule of Saint Benedict for the monastery of Gembloux. He returned a second time in 957, when his brother-in-law Heribrand of Mawolt had seized the revenues of the monastery. He persuaded Heribrand to leave the possessions of the monastery unmolested in the future. [3]

When Guibert died, in 962, the monks of Gembloux came to take back the corpse of their founder from the Abbey of Gorze. After burying the entrails of Guibert at the Abbey of Gorze, they treated the corpse with salt and herbs to prevent its decomposition during transportation to the Abbey of Gembloux, [4] which became a place of pilgrimage. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Bormans, Stanislas. "Guibert de Gembloux", Wallonie (SPW), December 2014
  2. ↑ Charter of Otto from 946 edited and translated by Corpus étampois.
  3. 1 2 3 Ott, Michael. "Gemblours." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 3 December 2022 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. ↑ Michel Lauwers, La Mémoire des ancêtres, le souci des morts. Morts, rites et société au Moyen Âge. Paris Beauchesne, 1997. p.255.
  5. ↑ "Saint Guibert de Gembloux", Nominis
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