Adalbero of Luxembourg

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Adalbero von Luxemburg (* end of the 10th century; † 1036 or 1037) was provost of St. Paulin in Trier , counter-bishop of Trier and son of Count Siegfried of Luxemburg as well as brother of Empress Kunigunde , wife of Heinrich II. And Duke Heinrichs von Baiern .

Strongly supported by them, after the death of Archbishop Ludolf von Trier in the spring of 1008 , he was opposed to the Mainz Cathedral Provost Megingod , whom the majority of the cathedral chapter had elected Archbishop of Trier, as counter-bishop. Adalbero seized the city of Trier, the archbishop's palace and the Moselle bridge, where he fortified himself strongly. Megingaud, on whose side both the Pope and Adalbero's brother-in-law, King Heinrich II, stood, took the city of Trier in the summer of 1008, but was unable to hand over the enemy enclosed in the palace, a basilica built by the Emperor Constantine with rock-solid brick walls move until after a 16-week siege last personally led by the emperor, through the use of Duke Heinrich von Baiern, a settlement was reached between the two opponents, according to which Adalbero received free withdrawal and cheap compensation in exchange for renouncing the episcopal dignity. But the emperor had scarcely turned his back when Adalbero attacked Trier again and forced Megingaud to flee to Koblenz .

After Megingaud's death in 1015, Adalbero seemed to be the undisputed master of the archbishopric ; but the cathedral chapter, in agreement with the Pope and Emperor, elected the son of Margrave Leopold of Austria , Poppo , as archbishop. This, a powerful regent, took Trier again with imperial help, destroyed Adalbero's Holy Cross near Trier and Sciva (ship, later Montclair on the Saar), but got involved in a bloody feud with the nephew Adalberos, Count Giselbert von Luxembourg, who in 1028 used Poppo's absence on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to devastate the archbishopric. Adalbero seems to have owned part of the county of Luxembourg , which after his death shortly afterwards came partly to the Archbishopric of Trier and the abbeys of St. Matthias and Prüm , and partly to the Luxembourg and Lorraine agnates.

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SURNAME Adalbero of Luxembourg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provost
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH 1036 or 1037