CONRAD, ABBOT OF EBERBACH

CONRAD, ABBOT OF EBERBACH - 18 SEPTEMBER

CONRAD, ABBOT OF EBERBACH

Eberbach Monastery, Monks' Dormitory

Conrad (Konrad), Abbot of Eberbach in the Rheingau, died on September 18, 1221, having only become abbot on May 1 the same year. He is the author of a work known as Exordium magnum, which reports on the origins of the Cistercian Order and its most amazing rapid spread. It also contains very valuable information about individual men of particular merit and some of the Order's German monasteries. As a monk of Clairvaux Conrad had collected the materials. The Order recognised his work, but did not endorse it until certain modifications to the text had been made, since a number of Conrad's details about some of the first abbots caused offence. However, a while ago his original manuscript has been discovered, and a new, critical edition is expected to appear in print at one point.

Hermann Bär, Geschichte des Klosters Eberbach im Rheingau, herausg. von K. Rossel, Wiesb. 1855, I, 546 ff. Fr. Otto im Neuen Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichte, VI, 603–605.

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