Hincmar of Reims

Biography

• Born: 806 into Franconian nobility.
• Educated at St. Denys and the court of Charlemagne.
• 840: joined Karl the Bald making him successor of Archbishop Ebo of Reims.
• Death: 21./23.12.882 Épernay.

Activities as canonist

• Defense against Proprietary Church System.
• Diocesan Legislation: Capitula Episcoporum.
• As Metropolitan: Action against Rothad II of Soissons who was in conflict with Nicholas I probably leading the enemies of Hincmar to propagate the Pseudo-Isidore-Decretals.

Editions and Sources

• HINCMARIUS, Remensis: Hincmari Rhemensis archiepiscopi opera omnia juxta editionem Sirmondianam ad prelum revocata; varia accessere monumenta quae suppeditarunt Surii, Pertzii, etc., collectiones memoratissimae, Vol.1, Migne, Jacques Paul (Ed.), Parisiorum, Lutetiae 1852.
• HINCMARIUS, Remensis: Hincmari Rhemensis archiepiscopi opera omnia juxta editionem Sirmondianam ad prelum revocata ; varia accessere monumenta quae suppeditarunt Surii, Pertzii, etc., collectiones memoratissimae, Vol. 2, Migne, Jacques Paul (Ed.), Parisiorum, Lutetiae 1852.
• HINCMARIUS, Remensis: Hincmari archiepiscopi Remensis epistolae: Hincmari Archiepiscopi Remensis Epistolarum Pars Prior, Perels, Ernst (Ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 1939.
• HINCMARIUS, Remensis: Hincmari archiepiscopi Remensis epistolae, Perels, Ernst/ Schieffer, Rudolf/ Ertl, Nelly (Eds.), Monumenta Germaniae historica, Munich 2018.
• HINCMARIUS, Remensis: De Ordine Palatii, Gross, Thomas/ Schieffer, Rudolf (Eds.), Hahn, Hannover 1980.
• HINCMARIUS, Remensis: De divortio Lotharii regis et Theutberga regina, Böhringer, Lehta (Ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Hahn, Hannover 1992.
• HINCMARIUS, Remensis: Die Streitschriften Hinkmars von Reims und Hinkmars von Laon 869-871, Rudolf, Schieffer (Ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Hahn Hannover 2003.
• HINCMARIUS, Remensis: Collectio de ecclesiis et capellis, Monumenta Germaniae Histrica: Fontes iuris Germanici antique in usum scholarum separatism editi, Stratmann, Martina (Ed.), Hahn, Hannover 2003.
• HINCMARIUS, Remensis: De cavendis vitiis et virtutibus exercendis, Nachtmann, Doris (Ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Munich 1998.
• Several titles with access and secondary literature on: geschichtsquellen.de

Introductory secondary Literature

• For further information see: VIELHABER, Klaus: Hinkmar, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 9 (1972), S. 184-185.
• SCHIEFFER, Rudolf: Hinkmar v. Reims, in KASPER, Walter et.al. (Eds.): Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, Vol.5, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, pp.142-143.
• SCHRÖRS, Heinrich: Hinkmar, Erzbischof von Reims. Sein Leben und seine Schriften, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1884; reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1967.
• STONE, Rachel/ WEST, Charles (Ed.): Hincmar of Rheims: Life and Work, Manchester University Press, Manchester 2015.
• ·Detailled secondary literature list at geschichtsquellen.de.