Leopold I of Gründlach

Leopold I von Gründlach († August 14, 1303 ) was bishop of the Bamberg diocese from 1296 until his death in 1303 .

Leopold I, also Leupold, came from the Nuremberg ministerial family of those von Gründlach . His uncle of the same name was provost of Sankt Gangolf in Bamberg. Leupold himself had been provost of Sankt Stephan since 1274 , and cathedral provost of Bamberg since 1283. In 1293 he acquired an entitlement to a benefice in the Würzburg cathedral chapter.

Leupold as bishop

Between September 15 and October 9, 1296 he was elected bishop. As an elect , he initially retained the post of provost. Pope Boniface VIII conceded the election because of accumulation of benefices, then dispensed Leupold and appointed him Bishop of Bamberg on March 21, 1297. The Pope commissioned Cardinal Bishop Gerhard von Sabina with the consecration . The time of the award of the pallium is unknown. Leupold committed himself to the payment of arrears of servitia , was forfeited due to financial difficulties of the excommunication , but was able to obtain a deferment of payment in August 1299. Probably only at the beginning of 1298 he returned from his trip to Rome, where he stopped in the Bamberg possessions in Carinthia. In the autumn of 1300 he stayed again in Carinthia.

In 1298 in Nuremberg, 1301 in Augsburg and again in 1302 in Nuremberg, Leupold took part in King Adolf's court days and obtained royal letters of protection. Further papal demands for money concerned a travel grant for the legate Nicholas of Ostia . Of the 750 pounds of the crusade tithe, which was also written out for Bamberg in 1301, only 400 pounds could be paid in 1303, mainly through the contribution from Michelsberg Monastery . The rest should be paid within two years. In other cases, the poor financial situation of the diocese was also evident.

The persecution of the Jews in Würzburg spread to Nuremberg and Bamberg in the summer of 1298.

After Leupold's death there was an ambivalent choice between Gerlach von Wetzlar, provost of Völkermarkt , and the Bamberg cathedral provost Johannes von Muchel.

literature

• Erich von Guttenberg : The diocese of Bamberg (= Germania Sacra . Dept. 2: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. Vol. 1). Part 1. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1937, pp. 194–196.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bamberg State Archives, Bamberg Documents 206 and 206a
2. ↑ First reproduced on its seal in November 1298: StA Bamberg, Bamberger Urkunden 208a

predecessor	Office	successor
Arnold von Solms	Bishop of Bamberg 1296–1303	Wulfing von Stubenberg