MANEGOLD OF LAUTENBACH

Canon regular; teacher and polemical writer on the papal side in the investiture struggle; b. Lautenbach (Alsace), c. 1030; d. Marbach, soon after 1103. At first he was a wandering master in France. He entered the monastery of Lautenbach shortly before 1084, although he had previously been married. He became known as the prefect of the schools in Alsace. Against the Emperor henry iv he wrote Manegoldi ad Gebhardum liber (ed.K. Francke, Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Libelli de lite 1:308–340), a violent polemical treatise defending a contractual theory of kingship. His Opusculum contra Wolfelmum Coloniensem (Patrologia Latina 155:147–176) warns Christians against the dangers of the study of pagan poets and philosophers. In 1086, he fled from his opponents to the monastery of Raitenbuch (Bavaria); he became dean there, and later, prior of the monastery of marbach in Alsace. After attending the synod of Tours (1096) with Pope urban ii, he was imprisoned by the imperialist party in 1098. Among his numerous writings were commentaries on Scripture, Plato, and Ovid.

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