History
Rimbert was born around 830 and trained as a monk at Torhout in Flanders. He went north with Ansgar, the missionary to the Danes and Swedes. When Ansgar died in 865, Rimbert followed him as archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen and held the see until his death on 11 June 888.
He wrote the Life of Ansgar, the main account of the first northern missions. He preached to the Danes at Hedeby and founded a monastery at Bücken. In 884 he led a Frisian force that drove a Viking army out of East Frisia. He is venerated as a saint, the second apostle of the North.
The By God Alone bookmark Fathers of the Faithful puts him forward at 37. The card calls him Prince-Archbishop Rimbert, lowborn, Archbishop of Hamburg, and rates him Advanced. Three counties on the edge of the pagan north is a small base for a church that wants the whole of Scandinavia.
In the game
| Seat | Detail |
|---|---|
| Start | 867 |
| Bookmark | Fathers of the Faithful (By God Alone) |
| Title | Archbishop of Hamburg |
| Realm size | 3 counties |
| Government | Theocracy. By God Alone makes landed archbishops playable. |
| Difficulty | Advanced, the bookmark rating in patch 1.20.1.2 |
| Culture | Dutch |
| Faith | Chalcedonianism |
| Dynasty | Lowborn |
| Age | 37 |
How to play
Goal. Carry the faith into Denmark and Sweden and turn a three-county see into the church of the North.
Pick him from the Fathers of the Faithful card on the 867 start. He needs By God Alone. Open the faith screen and the Christian situation first: the Great Schism, the councils, and the archdioceses are where a cleric gains ground, not the battlefield. Ludwig the German is the king next door, and the pagan Norse lords are the conversion targets.
Where this run fails. A Norse raid on a tiny realm, a hostile king who puppets the see, or a council that goes against you.