Editing Rimbert (section)

==Biography==
Little is directly known about Rimbert, much of the information available regarding his life comes from the ''Vita Rimberti'', a hagiography written by an unknown author, likely produced some time in the 10th century.<ref name=":0" /> While his place of birth is uncertain it is widely accepted by historians that Rimbert was Danish.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wickham|first=Chris|title=Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780199212965|location=Oxford|pages=366|language=English}}</ref>  As a monk he trained in Turholt ([[Torhout]]), after which he shared a [[missionary]] trip to [[Scandinavia]] with his mentor [[Ansgar]], Bishop of Hamburg. Upon Ansgar's death in 865, Rimbert was unanimously elected Archbishop of [[Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen|Hamburg-Bremen.]] Upon his election, Rimbert travelled with Bishop Theodric of Minden and Abbot [[Adalgar|Adalgar of Corvey]] to the court of [[Louis the German]], who sent him to Archbishop [[Liutbert (archbishop of Mainz)|Liudbert of Mainz]] to receive his consecration, which he received with the aid of Luidhard of Paderborn and Thoedric.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Knibbs|first=Eric|title=Ansgar, Rimbert, and the Forged Foundations of Hamburg-Bremen|publisher=Routledge|year=2011|isbn=9781409428824|location=Surrey|language=English}}</ref>

Rimbert continued much of the missionary work that had begun under [[Ansgar]], despite the lack of royal or papal support for the missionary effort.<ref name=":1" /> As Archbishop, he maintained the poorhouse in [[Bremen]] that had been established by Ansgar and founded a monastery at [[Bücken]].<ref name=":1" /> He also continued to preach to the [[Danes]] at [[Hedeby]].<ref name=":0" /> Rimbert furthermore obtained market, coinage and toll rights for the city of Bremen in 888 from Emperor [[Arnulf of Carinthia]] and thus considerably improved the financial state of the archbishopric. In 884 he personally led a Frisian army against the Vikings, and following the victorious [[Battle of Norditi]] was able to drive them permanently out of [[East Frisia]].

It was also chronicled in the ''Vita Rimberti'' that Rimbert had performed numerous miracles, many of which are associated with his missionary work in [[Sweden]]. The miracles attributed to him include calming stormy seas, restoring sight to the blind and in one instance, performing an exorcism on the son of [[Louis the German]].<ref name=":1" /> While the ''Vita Rimberti'' claimed the importance of these miracles and the in the ''Vita Ansgari'', Rimbert claimed that his and Ansgar's missionary work was popular and successful, they nevertheless produced underwhelming results in converting the Scandinavians.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Winroth|first=Anders|title=The Conversion of Scandinavia Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2012|isbn=9780300205534|language=English}}</ref>

Rimbert is revered as a [[saint]] particularly in [[Frisia]]. His [[Calendar of saints|feast day]] is 4 February. After Ansgar, known as the ''Apostle of the North'', Rimbert is revered as the ''Second Apostle of the North'', alongside the missionary [[Sigfrid of Sweden]].<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Hamburg}}; Erik Gustaf Geijer, ''Geschichte Schwedens'' [Svenska folkets historia; German]: 6 vols., Swen Peter Leffler (trl., vols. 1-3), Friedrich Ferdinand Carlson (trl., vols. 4-6) and J. E. Peterson (co-trl., vol. 4), Hamburg and Gotha: Friedrich Perthes, 1832–1887, (Geschichte der europaeischen Staaten, Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, Friedrich August Ukert, and (as of 1875) Wilhelm von Gieselbrecht (eds.); No. 7), vol. 1 (1832), p. 121. No ISBN.</ref>