Uodalscalc of Maisach
Udalschalk | |
|---|---|
| Abbot | |
| Appointed | 1125 |
| In office | 1125 - c. 1150 |
| Predecessor | Wollemar |
| Successor | Hezilo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Augsberg |
| Died | c. 1150 |
| Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
| Part of a series on |
| Medieval music |
|---|
| Overview |
|
|
Udalschalk, Abbot of St Ulrich's and St Afra's Abbey, also known in sources as Uodalscalc, Uodalschalus, Uodalscalus, Odalschalchi[1] and Udalscalus was a German Benedictine historian, writer, composer and copyist, active in Augsberg, Konstanz and Rome. He was a minor literary opponent of the Imperial party during the investiture controversy.
Life
[edit]Monk
[edit]Born in Augsberg,[2] he debated the Imperial-invested Hermann II of Augsburg alongside Egino, who was then abbot and Udalschalk's superior. This engagement is only recorded in the Uodalscalcus de Eginone et Herimanno (MG. SS. XII, 429), with Udalschalk accusing Hermann of making his brother, Patriarch Ulric of Aquleia, commit simony by bribing Henry IV so that Hermann could be invested as bishop by Henry.[3] After Egino fled Augsberg in 1120, Udalschalk went to Konstanz, where he compiled the life of Bishop Conrad of Konstanz for the purpose of canonisation. At around the same time as the biography of Conrad's completion in 1123, Udalschalk also wrote a biography of Adalbero of Augsberg.[4]
Abbot
[edit]In 1125, he was unanimously elected as the Abbot of St Ulrich's and St Afra's Abbey, succeeding Wollemar. He compiled his registrum tonorum, a set of musical devotional offices for St Conrad and St Ulrich with rare surviving Southern German notation,[5] before dying sometime between 1149 and 1151.
References
[edit]- ^ "registrum tonarum text - University of Indiana CHMTL". Archived from the original on May 13, 2025.
- ^ "Udalscalcus Augustanus (vor 1118–vor 1151), Komponist – BMLO". www.bmlo.lmu.de. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
- ^ Niblaeus, Erik (2023-05-27). "The Investiture Contest in the margins: popes and peace in a manuscript from Augsburg cathedral". Journal of Medieval History. 49 (3): 306–319. doi:10.1080/03044181.2023.2210041. ISSN 0304-4181.
- ^ Biographie, Deutsche. "Udalschalk - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-07-15.
- ^ Krugseder, Robert (2007). Neue Zeugnisse der frühen Liniennotation aus den Klöstern St. Ulrich & Afra Augsburg und Aldersbach (in German).