Adelochus

Adelochus (786–823) or Adeloch was the 27th bishop of Strasbourg, successor of Erlehardus, from 817 to 822. He is buried in a Romanesque carved sarcophagus by the Master of Eschau,[1] supported on couchant lions, and carved with figures in a blind arcade with the Saviour flanked by the kneeling bishop and an angel and in the two outermost panels, a man riding a fish and a man strangling two dragons.[2] formerly in a recess in the quire of St. Thomas, Strasbourg.[3]

Adeloch, in a detail of his sarcophagus

He was the preceptor of King Louis the Pious.

A village now gone, situated between the Bruche River and Koenigshoffen, a quartier of Strasbourg, was named Adelshoffen after the bishop in the 9th century.

Another Adelochus was Adelochus (Adelog) von Dorstadt, a Bishop of Hildesheim, 1171–1190.

Notes
  1. Will, Robert (1965). Alsace romane. Zodiaque.
  2. The spurious inscription crediting him with founding the church in 830 was added probably in the 13th century. (Julius Euting, A descriptive guide to the city of Strassburg and its cathedral5th ed. 1896:51.
  3. V. Debidour, Le bestiare sculpté en France, 1961, fig. 391, 415. Other illustration: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.


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