Thierry Ier of Metz

See also: Thierry Ier (homonymy),

Thierry Ier (death on September 7th 984) was bishop of Metz of 964 with 984.

After the death of the bishop of Metz Adalbéron, one of wire of Frederic Ier of Lorraine, Thierry, a close relation to the emperor Otton I {{er}}, was administrator of évêché and later the successor of Adalbéron at the instigation of Brunon of Cologne, the archbishop of Cologne. Thierry was the friend and the adviser of Brunon and accompanied it in his voyage towards Compiegne during which Brunon died with Rheims. After the death of Brunon, Thierry was one of the most influential advisers of Otton Ist This is why it was very often present at the imperial court and consequently absent from his Metz-native diocese.

In 968, it founded the Abbaye Saint-Vincent of Metz and became protective many churches and abbayes.
In 962, it accompanied Otton in Italy, where it attended crowning and obtained after that the honorary load to accommodate on the Italian coasts the girl of the Greek emperor Theophamia which the emperor of Rome had chosen for his son. After the death of Otton Ier, Thierry preserved his influence at the court of Otton II. After the happy end of the war with the king of France Lothaire, Otton II came to Metz and was crowned there king of Lotharingie. In 978 in Laon, it crowns Charles of Low-Lotharingie king de France; this one nevertheless never will be recognized as such although supported by Otton II. In 981, Thierry accompanied the emperor in Italy.

Thierry was also writer. Of its voyages in Italy, it had brought back relics of various saints, of which it wrote the biographies. Those nevertheless were lost.

Sigebert of Gembloux and Albert of Metz wrote a biography of Thierry Ist.

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