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'''Hildegar''' (also '''Hildiger''' or '''Hildeger'''; died 8 August 753) was the [[bishop of Cologne]] from 750.{{sfn|Collins|1998|p=47}} Probably of noble birth, he was a supporter of the [[Carolingians]], who displaced the [[Merovingians]] in 751.
After the appointment of [[Eoban]] to the [[Archdiocese of Utrecht (695–1580)|diocese of Utrecht]] by the missionary bishop [[Boniface]], Hildegar claimed metropolitan rights over the see.{{sfn|Knibbs|2011|p=31}} Boniface denied the charge in a letter to [[Pope Stephen II]],{{sfn|Farmer|2011|p=107}} although Marco Mostert has indicated that Boniface's narrative and arguments are flawed, if not outright lies.{{sfn|Mostert|1995}}
After a group of [[Saxons]] ravaged [[Francia]], burning thirty churches, King [[Pippin the Short]] led a [[punitive expedition]] with "a large siege train" (''magno apparatu'') against them.{{sfn|Hines|2003|p=300}} Hildegar took part in the war and died defending the fortress (''castrum'') of Juberg or Iburg (''Ihburg'') near [[Osnabrück]].{{sfn|Petersen|2013|p=248 n. 199}} He was probably commanding the levies of Cologne as a garrison.{{sfn|Petersen|2013|p=248 n. 199}}{{sfn|Bachrach|2001|p=287}}
== Notes ==
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== Sources ==
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* {{cite book |authorlink=Bernard S. Bachrach |first=Bernard |last=Bachrach |title=Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=2001 |location=Philadelphia}}
* {{cite book |authorlink=Roger Collins |last=Collins |first=Roger |title=Charlemagne |year=1998 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |title=Cunibert of Cologne |encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Saints |edition=5th rev. |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |editor-first=David |editor-last=Farmer |pages=107–08 |year=2011}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective |editor-first1=D<!--ennis-->. H<!--oward-->. |editor-last1=Green |editor-first2=F<!--rank-->. |editor-last2=Siegmund |year=2003 |publisher=Boydell |location=Woodbridge |first=John |last=Hines |title=The Conversion of the Old Saxons |pages=299–313}}
* {{cite book |first=Eric |last=Knibbs |title=Ansgar, Rimbert, and the Forged Foundations of Hamburg-Bremen |year=2011 |location=Farnham |publisher=Ashgate}}
* {{cite journal |last=Mostert |first=Marco |year=1995 |title=Bonifatius als Geschiedvervalser |url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_mad001199501_01/_mad001199501_01_0043.php |journal=Madoc: Tijdschrift voor Mediëvistiek |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=213–21}}
* {{cite book |title=Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400–800 AD): Byzantium, the West and Islam |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |first=Leif Inge Ree |last=Petersen |year=2013}}
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