HINC'MAR (806-82). A celebrated church man of the ninth century. lie was born in si) i. presumably in Toulouse. as he belonged to the family of the counts of that province. He was educated in the .Monastery of Saint-Denis. near Paris. and was intrusted with the framing and carrying out of a plan for the reformation of the monastery. In 845 he was elected Arch bishop of Rheims. In this position he had to deal with the ease of the alleged heretic Gott schalk (q.v.). whom he treated with great sever ity. In S62 he became involved in a controversy with Pope Nicholas I. Rothadius. Bishop of Soissons and suffragan of Ilinemar, deposed a priest of his diocese, who appealed to Hincmar, as metropolitan, and was ordered by him to he restored to office. P,othadms. resisting this order. and having been, in consequence, condemned and excommunicated by the Archbishop. appealed to the Pope, who ordered Hincmar to restore Rothadius, or to appear at Rome in person. or by his representative. to vindicate the sentence. Hincmar sent a legate to Rome, but refused to restore the deposed bishop: whereupon Nicholas annulled the sentence. and required that the
cause should again be heard in Rome. Hinemar, after some demur, was forced to acquiesce. The cause of Rothadius was reexamined, and lie was acquitted. and restored to his see. Under the successor of Nicholas, Adrian II_ a question arose as to the succession to the of Lorraine on the death of King Lothaire. the Pope favoring the pretension; of the Emperor Louis II. in opposition to those of Charles the Bald of France. To the mandate which Adrian addressed to the subjects of Charles and to the nobles of Lorraine. accompanied by a menace of the censures of the Church. Hine/liar offered a firm and persistent opposition. Ile was equally firm in resisting the undue extension of the royal prerogative in ecclesiastical affairs. Hine-mar died at Epernay, whither he had fled from the Normans, December 21. 882. Ills works were col lected by Sirmond (Paris, In451. reprinted in Mime, Patrol. Let.. exxv.-cxxvi. Many others of his works are still in MSS. For his life. consult Sehr;irs (Freiburg.. 1884).