Adelochus

Adeloch, in a detail of his sarcophagus

Adeloch[us] (786–823) was the founder of the church and the first bishop of Strasbourg. He is buried in a Romanesque carved sarcophagus supported on couchant lions, and carved with figures in a blind arcade with the Saviour flanked by the kneeling bishop and an angel and in the two outermost panels, a man riding a fish and a man strangling two dragons.[1] formerly in a recess in the quire of St. Thomas, Strasbourg.[2]

Another Adelochus was Adelochus (Adelog) of Dorstadt, Bishop of Hildesheim, 1171–1190.

Notes

  1. ↑ The spurious inscription crediting him with founding the church in 830 was added probably in the 13th century. (Julius Euting, A descriptive guide to the city of Strassburg and its cathedral5th ed. 1896:51.
  2. ↑ V. Debidour, Le bestiare sculpté en France, 1961, fig. 391, 415. Other illustration: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

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