HATTO I

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HATTO I . (c. 850913), archbishop of Mainz, belonged to a Swabian family, and was probably educated at the monastery of Reichenau, of which be became abbot in 888. He soon became known to the German king, Arnulf, who appointed him arch-bishop of Mainz in 891; and he became such a trustworthy and confidential counsellor that he was popularly called " the heart of the king." He presided over the important synod at Tribur in 895, and accompanied the king to Italy in 894 and 895, where he was received with

great

GREAT

favour by Pope Formosus. In 899, when Arnulf died, Hatto became regent of Germany, and guardian of the

young

king, Louis the Child, whose authority he compelled Zwentibold, king of Lorraine, an illegitimate son of Arnulf, to recognize. During these years he did not neglect his own interests, for in 896 he secured for himself the abbey of Ellwangen and in 898 that of Lorsch. He assisted the Franconian family of the Conradines in its

feud

FEUD

with the Babenbergs, and was accused of betraying Adalbert, count of Babenberg, to death. He retained his influence during the whole of the reign of Louis; and on the king's death in 911 was prominent in securing the election of

Conrad

, duke of Franconia, to the vacant throne. When trouble arose between

Conrad

and

Henry

, duke of Saxony, afterwards King

Henry

the Fowler, the attitude of Conrad was ascribed by the

Saxons

SAXONS

to the influence of Hatto, who wished to prevent Henry from securing authority in Thuringia, where the see of Mainz had extensive possessions. He was accused of complicity in a plot to murder Duke Henry, who in return ravaged the archiepiscopal lands in Saxony and Thuringia. He died on the 15th of May 913, one tradition saying he was struck by lightning, and another that he was thrown alive by the devil into the crater of

Mount

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Etna. His memory was long regarded in Saxony with

great

GREAT

abhorrence, and stories of cruelty and treachery gathered round his name. The legend of the Mouse Tower at Bingen is connected with Hatto II., who was archbishop of Mainz from 968 to 970. This Hatto built . the church of St George on the island of Reichenau, was generous to the see of Mainz and to the abbeys of Fulda and Reichenau, and was a patron of the chronicler Regino, abbot of Prum.
See E. Dummler, Geschichte des ostfrankischen Reichs (

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 18871888) ; G. Phillips, Die grosse Synode von Tribur (Vienna, 1865) ; .l. Heidemann, Hatto I., Erzbischof von Mainz (Berlin, 1865) ; G. Waltz, Jahrbiicher der deutschen Geschichte unter Heinrich I. (Berlin and

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 1863) ; and J. F. Bohmer, Regesta archiepiscoporum Maguntinensium, edited by C. Will (

Innsbruck

INNSBRUCK

, 18771886).

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