Egbert of Trier

Egbert of Trier was born around the year 950, a son of Count Dirk II of Holland. He was brought up at Egmond Abbey, founded by his family, and at the court of Archbishop Bruno of Cologne, and then became chancellor of the Emperor Otto II in 976. The next year he was made Archbishop of Trier, still young. He reposed on 9 December 993.

He was a patron of learning and the arts: he set up workshops of goldsmiths and enamellers at Trier, and under him the city became a leading artistic centre of the Ottonian world. He appears among the saints of some Western calendars; the sources consulted, however, show no act of canonization.