Hathumar

Hathumar was the first bishop of Paderborn, from 806 or 807 until his death on 9 August 815.

He was of Saxon stock, from a noble family, and was probably brought up in the diocese of Würzburg. Charlemagne placed him in 806 or 807 on the see of Paderborn, as the first Saxon bishop of that diocese, which from 799 was still under the rule of the diocese of Würzburg. In his time the cathedral of Paderborn was completed. In 815 he founded the first Saxon monastery, at Hethis, which was moved in 822 to Corvey.

He was buried in the crypt of the cathedral of Paderborn. Badurad succeeded him. Our source says nothing of a canonization or of his veneration as a saint.