Adalbert II of Saarbrücken

Adalbert II of Saarbrücken († July 17, 1141 in Erfurt ) from the family of the Saargaugrafen was Archbishop of Mainz from 1138 to 1141.

He was the nephew of Adalbert I of Saarbrücken , his predecessor in the Archbishopric of Mainz. His father was Count Friedrich von Saarbrücken .

Adalbert II was trained in Mainz , Hildesheim , Paris , Reims and Montpellier . His family ties to Archbishop Adalbert I favored his career, so that he held several provosts in Mainz ( St. Peter and St. Stephan Abbey ) and Erfurt (Marienstift) at an early age .

During the vacancy of the Mainz bishopric, the Staufer Konrad of Swabia was lifted to the German royal throne. The Hohenstaufen wanted to occupy the Mainz bishop's chair with one of their partisans. Adalbert II, who was elected in 1138, was more of a strengthening for the opposition camp of the Saxons and Welfs , as he saw his territorial claims in Erfurt and Thuringia endangered by the Staufer .

The archbishop was unable to set significant accents, however, as he died in Erfurt after three years as archbishop in 1141. His body was transferred to Mainz.

literature

• Albert Schumann:  Adalbert II. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 65.
• Peter Acht :  Adalbert II., Archbishop of Mainz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 44 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Joachim Ehlers : Constitutional and socio-historical studies on the educational course of Archbishop Adalbert II of Mainz . In: Ders., Selected essays, edited by Martin Kintzinger / Bernd Schneidmüller , Berlin 1996, pp. 191–214.
• Christoph Waldecker : Between emperor, curia, clergy and militant lay people. The Archbishops of Mainz in the period from 1100 to 1160 , Mainz 2002 ( Sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine Church history 101).

predecessor	Office	successor
Adalbert I of Saarbrücken	Archbishop of Mainz 1138–1141	Markolf