Werinher

Werinher († 6 July 1167) was abbot and librarian of the Abbey ofSaint Gall from 1133 to 1167. He is first documented in March 1134.

Werinher was custos und became the abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall after 1 May 1133. After the tumultuous decades with elections of counter-abbots, the election processed surprisingly peacefully, as the chronicles emphasise. Werinher directed his administration to reformations of monastery life. Some monks, who took liberties with the monastery breed, were reported by him to the papal legate Cardinal Theodwin in 1134. This rigid procedure in the name of the monastery breed evoked resistance on the part of the monks, but the inner-monastic differences could soon be reconciled. On 12 April 1139, Werinher received the confirmation of privileges and properties from Pope Innocent II. In 1145, he renewed the existing fraternity with the Abbey of Reichenau. As constructor, he built the churches Saint Leonhard and Saint Egidius which Pope Eugene III put under his protection on 13 February 1152. In 1162, Werinher was able to acquire Ittingen Charterhouse from Duke Welf von Ravensburg. As the duke's protecting reeve, Count Udalrich von Gamertingen, died without heirs, the bailiwick came into the possession of Saint Gall. However, it was later sold by Abbot Werinher to Count Rudolf von Pfullendorf at 300 silver marks.