Albero II of Liege

Albero II († March 27, 1145 in Otride ) was Bishop of Liège from 1135 to 1145 .

Life

He was a son of Count Otto II of Chiny and Alice of Namur. The latter was the daughter of Albert III. of Namur and Ida of Saxony from the Billung family .

He entered the clergy and was among other things archdeacon in Metz . In 1135 he was elected bishop after his predecessor Alexander I was deposed by the council in Pisa . He was from Lothar III. 1136 invested. In the same year he accompanied Lothar to Italy. Possibly there he met Konrad III. know. In the following, Albero is often mentioned in the environment and at Konrad's court. It is possible that he also took part in his coronation in 1138 in Aachen . His participation in the following farm day in Cologne and accompanying Konrad to Mainz are documented. He was also present at the court day in Strasbourg in 1139. The king asks him to order his brother Eustachius von Chiny, who was also the bailiff of the diocese of Liège, to return an illegally occupied property to the Stablo abbey . The king held another court day in Liège that year. It is unclear whether he took part in the campaign to Saxony. He was present at the court conference in Worms in 1140 . As a result, he stayed away from the court.

The reason may have been his feud with Count Rainald I von Bar . It was about the possession of the Bouillon Castle . The castle was first given to the diocese of Liège by Gottfried von Bouillon as a pledge. The Count of Bar made inheritance claims and had the castle occupied in 1134. Albero turned to Konrad III several times without the latter taking any action on the matter. In 1141 Albero began to besiege the castle, which was considered impregnable. The Liège troops made a continuation of the siege dependent on the relics of Saint Lambert being brought to the battlefield. Bishop and clergy, who did not want to endanger the relics, had to bow to the pressure. In fact, the opposing crew gave up after the sanctuaries arrived. The victory was attributed to Saint Lambert. Albero was able to repossess the castle for Liège.

Provost Heinrich complained about the abuse of church offices for secular purposes. Because Bishop Albero apparently did not pursue this vigorously, Heinrich sued him with the Pope. The bishop had to travel to Rome to defend himself and died on the return journey.

literature

• Wolfram Ziegler: King Konrad III. (1138-1152). Vienna u. a., 2008, pp. 256-258.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lothar III. - RI IV, 1.1 n.467
2. ^ RI IV Lothar III. and older Staufer (1125-1197) - RI IV, 1,2
3. ^ RI IV Lothar III. and older Staufer (1125-1197) - RI IV, 1,2
4. ↑ Klaus Schreiner: Rituals, Signs, Images: Forms and Functions of Symbolic Communication in the Middle Ages. Cologne u. a., 2011 53f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Alexander I.	Bishop of Liège 1128–1135	Henry II