Alexander I. von Jülich

Alexander I of Jülich († July 6, 1135 in Publémont near Liège ) was Bishop of Liège from 1128 to 1135.

Life

In 1101 Alexander became provost of St. Bartholomew , later provost of St. Martin and St. Paul in Liège and Notre-Dame in Huy , from 1111 he was treasurer of St. Lambert in Liège. After the death of Bishop Otbert in 1119, Emperor Heinrich V appointed Alexander bishop - allegedly in exchange for a bribe of 7,000 pounds of silver. Archbishop Friedrich von Köln refused the consecration and prompted a new election for the Liège cathedral provost Friedrich von Namur . The disputes over the bishopric split the whole of Lower Lorraine . Albert was besieged by Friedrich in Huy and submitted. When Bishop Friedrich died in 1121, Alexander's supporters prevailed in the city and the monastery and he was re-elected, but again forced to resign. After Emperor Heinrich V and Pope Calixt II had agreed on the investiture of the bishops in the Worms Concordat of 1122 , Albero I of Leuven was elected bishop in 1123. After Albero's death, Alexander was unanimously elected and consecrated bishop on March 18, 1128. As a follower of King Lothar III. On August 7, 1129 he defeated Gottfried the Bearded , from whom Lothar had withdrawn the Duchy of Lower Lorraine . During his tenure, the meeting of Pope Innocent II and Lothar III took place on March 22, 1132 in Liège . instead of. The Council of Pisa deposed him in March / April 1136 on the charge of simony . He died shortly afterwards on July 6th 1136 and was buried in the Liège Cathedral of St. Lambert.

literature

Alberdingk Thijm: Alexander I. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 336 f.
Walter Kaemmerer: Alexander I .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 193 ( digitized version ).
Jean-Louis Kupper: Alexander I, Bishop of Liège . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 375.

Individual evidence

^ Dieter Kartschoke: Liège, meeting of . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 6, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7608-8906-9 , column 27 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Albero I of Leuven	Bishop of Liège 1128–1135	Albero II of Namur

personal data
SURNAME	Alexander I. von Jülich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Liege
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	July 6, 1135
Place of death	Publémont near Liège

[1] Dieter Kartschoke: Liège, meeting of . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 6, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7608-8906-9 , column 27 f.