Eido I, also Ido, Eid or Ägidius (955 – 20 December 1015), was the

bishop of Meissen The Bishop of Dresden-Meissen is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen in the Archdiocese of Berlin. The diocese covers an area of and was erected as the Diocese of Meissen on 24 June 1921. The name was changed to Dresd ...

from 992 to 1015.

Life

Eido, thought to have been a member of the noble von Colditz family, belonged to the cathedral chapter of

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. His appointment as bishop of Meissen in 992 was on the recommendation of

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. Among the major events of his period of office was the dispute over the restoration of the

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, which had been abolished in 981 by the efforts of Giselher, and of its territories to the east of the

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which had fallen to the bishopric of Meissen. Eido was successful in retaining those territories for Meissen even after the restoration of the bishopric of Merseburg in 1004. Although measures had been taken in the court of

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to readjust the boundaries, they remained without effect. Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg, appointed in 1009, reported in Book 7 of his ''Chronicle'' that Eido died on 20 December 1015 while travelling through ''urbs Libzi'': this is the first written reference to the town of

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. His body was escorted by Hildeward, bishop of Zeitz, back to Meissen, where it was buried.

Literature

* Knut Görich: ''Otto III. Romanus Saxonicus et Italicus'' (p. 171). Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen 1995 * Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: ''Die deutschen Bischöfe bis zum Ende des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts'' (2nd vol., p. 223.). Verlag Otto Wiegand, Leipzig 1858
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* Eduard Machatschek: ''Geschichte der Bischöfe des Hochstiftes Meissen in chronologischer Reihenfolge: Zugleich en Beitrag zur Culturgeschichte der Mark Meissen und des Herzog und Kurfürstenthums Sachsens. Nach dem „Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae“, anderen glaubwürdigen Quellen und bewährten Geschichtswerken bearbeitet'' (pp. 24-31). C.C. Meinhold, Dresden 1884 * Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf: ''Urkundenbuch des Hochstifts Meissen'', vol. 1, p. XVI
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* Willi Rittenbach, Siegfried Seifert: ''Geschichte der Bischöfe von Meißen 968-1581'' (pp. 29–38). St.-Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1965 * * Thietmar von Merseburg: ''Chronik (= Ausgewählte Quellen zur Deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe, Bd. 9),'' newly translated and revised by Werner Trillmich, Darmstadt 1957 (several new editions). Older edition: ''Die Chronik Thietmar's, Bischofs von Merseburg, nach der Ausgabe der Monumenta Germaniae übers. von J.C.M. Laurent''
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External links

* Karl-Hermann Kandler:
Bischof Eid von Meißen
'. In: ''Personen zur sächsischen Kirchengeschichte, Serie der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Landeskirche Sachsens'' {{Germany-RC-bishop-stub Roman Catholic bishops of Meissen 955 births 1015 deaths