Adalbero III. from Luxembourg

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Adalbero of Luxembourg (* approx. 1010; † November 13, 1072 ) was called Adalbero III. Bishop of Metz .

Adalbero was a brother of Count Giselbert of Luxembourg and ascended the Metz bishop's seat after his uncle Dietrich († April 30, 1046), distinguished by piety and education, by cleverness in the management of his pen and by political influence. He was the teacher of Bishop Bruno of Toul, known as Leo IX. got into the papal chair. That of Henry III. He attended the Worms meeting held at which Leo's election took place; likewise the Roman Council of 1050, at which Bishop Gerhard von Toul was canonized. King Heinrich IV granted him the county of Saarbrücken.

Bishop Adalbero III. stated in a document from 1070, that he in Rheinhessen Hochborn a church dedicated to St. The Redeemer. In 1230 the Metz property rights in Hochborn fell to the Worms Cathedral monastery .

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  1. ^ Website on the church history of Hochborn
predecessor Office successor
Dietrich II of Luxembourg Bishop of Metz
1047-1072
Hermann of Metz