Albert I of Pietengau

Albert I. Count von Pietengau (* around 1215 ; † December 9, 1260/62 ) was Bishop of Regensburg from 1246 to 1259 .

origin

Albert's father was Count Gottfried von Sigmaringen - Helfenstein and his mother was Adelheid von Neuffen , daughter of Count Berthold I von Weissenhorn-Neuffen-Achalm-Hettingen. Albert wrote himself - like his two brothers, Count Gebhard von Sigmaringen-Pietengau and Count Berthold von Pietengau - to Byedingowe, Bitengowe, Pietengaw, Petinkeu, Peutengau, Pietengau or Peitingau (today Peiting ).

Life

Albert enjoyed a canon of Halberstadt when, in 1246, the Cardinal Legate Philip of Ferrara, passing over the electoral rights of the cathedral chapter , elevated him to the Regensburg chair, which was settled by Bishop Siegfried's death. Now he brought in his brothers Gebhard and Berthold, whom he made the vice cathedral of the bishopric , and who probably owed his influence to be elected bishop of Passau in 1250.

Albert was a willing organ of the Curia in its measures against Duke Otto of Bavaria , was in contact with the Bohemian King Ottokar II and fought against the imperial citizens of Regensburg from his fortress Stauf . Albert initiated an assassination attempt by his Ministerial Konrad von Hohenfels on the night of December 29, 1250 on King Konrad while he was in Regensburg. The bishop and the city are then still in dispute with Bavaria. The reason for his abdication could perhaps have been the reconciliation between Duke Ludwig and the citizens, which may have made his position untenable. Albert contented himself with a few benefices in the diocese and went to the Cistercian monastery Sittichenbach near Querfurt.

literature

• Michael Buchberger (Ed.): 1200 years of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1939, p. 32.
• Edmund Freiherr von Oefele:  Albert I., Bishop of Regensburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 185 f.
• Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966, pp. 45-50.
• Julien Théry-Astruc, "'Excès' et 'affaires d'enquête'. Les procédures criminelles de la papauté contre les prélats, de la mi-XIIe à la mi-XIVe siècle. Première approche", in La pathologie du pouvoir: vices , crimes et délits des governants , ed. Patrick Gilli, Leyden, Brill, 2016, pp. 164–236: pp. 165–166, 191, 204, 215, online .

predecessor	Office	successor
Siegfried	Bishop of Regensburg 1246–1259	Albertus Magnus