Berthold von Zeltschach

Berthold von Zeltschach (* in the 11th century; † January 2 , in the 12th century, in Sankt Paul im Lavanttal ) was the second bishop of Gurk from 1090 to 1106 .

family

Berthold came from the Zeltschacher family , a family of counts from Carinthia, ancestors of the Counts of Pfannberg . In 1090 he was appointed Bishop of Gurk.

Life

However, Berthold's appointment fell at the time of the investiture controversy. Archbishop Gebhard von Salzburg was deposed as a staunch supporter of Pope Gregory VII in 1085 by Emperor Heinrich IV and had to leave Salzburg. Berthold von Moosburg , appointed by the emperor, ruled as counter-archbishop alongside Gebhard's successor Thiemo , who was appointed by the pope, and on June 16, 1090 appointed Berthold von Zeltschach as successor to the orphaned Gurk bishop's seat. Since Berthold von Zeltschach did not become a bishop through the rightful Archbishop of Salzburg, he is usually referred to in history as an "intruder" or "intrusus".

Berthold von Zeltschach carelessly squandered the entire diocese in order to gain favor with the feudal people, especially the Carinthian ducal families of Eppenstein and Spanheim , and to secure his rule. With this sale of the episcopal goods, Berthold appears in the worst light in the history of the Gurk bishops. He continued to support the Salzburg counter-archbishop and in 1097 Archbishop Thiemo had to flee. He was captured in Friesach by Poppo von Zeltschach, the bishop's brother.

Berthold was able to assert himself as bishop for nine years. But when King Heinrich V converted to the papal party and Konrad von Abenberg, an archbishop confirmed by both sides, was installed and the rule of the counter-archbishop Berthold von Moosburg ended, the fate of Gurk Bishop Berthold von Zeltschach was sealed. The new Archbishop of Salzburg deposed him in 1106 on the orders of Pope Paschal II , banned him and elected the previous chaplain Hiltebold as his successor. Bertold submitted to the papal decision and retired to the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal , where he died on January 2nd of an unknown year.

literature

• Jakob Obersteiner: The bishops of Gurk. 1072–1822 (= From Research and Art. 5, ISSN  0067-0642 ). Publishers of the history association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1969, pp. 17-19.