Bruno von Bretten

Bruno von Bretten , also known as Bruno von Lauffen , (* around 1045; † April 25, 1124 in Trier ) was Archbishop of Trier from January 6, 1102 until his death on April 25, 1124.

Life

The Trierische Chronik by Jesuit Christoph Brouwer , written in 1617 and printed in 1670, names Bruno as the son of Count Arnold von Lauffen and his wife Adelheid, who probably comes from the von Nellenburg family. Brower also connects Bruno with Bretten , which is where Bruno's nickname von Bretten , with whom he is now run by the diocese of Trier, comes from. However, the Lauffeners did not have property in Bretten until around 1100, so that, unlike later family members, Count Arnold was neither Count von Lauffen and Bretten, as Bautz wrote in 1975, nor was Bruno born in Bretten. If his mother Adelheid comes from the Zeisolf-Wolframe family, there would of course still be the possibility of giving birth on the occasion of a visit to Bretten.

In 1084 Bruno was provost in Trier. He is thus also leaving for the office of Gaugrafen in Kraichgau , which Uffelmann assigned to him in 1985 for the period around 1100. Bruno's appointment as Archbishop of Trier was made possible by his uncle Udo von Nellenburg , who held the office from 1066 to 1078.

Bruno was considered a skilled diplomat and was an influential advisor to Emperor Henry IV , under whose successor Heinrich V he proved to be a prudent mediator between the curia and the emperor ( investiture dispute ). Due to his brilliant abilities Henry V clothed him with the office of a "Vicedom (i) nus regiae curiae" ( lat. For "governor of the royal court"), a governor of the kingdom. As an important bastion against Kurköln , Münstermaifeld was interesting for him. There is evidence that he consecrated the previous building of the collegiate church of St. Martin and St. Severus in 1103 . Presumably he began at that time to provide the important market town Münstermaifeld with a fortification system. The “powder or owl tower” named after him in the vernacular “ Lauffenburg ” still stands today as part of the city fortifications of that time, which subsequent electors further strengthened.

With the consent of his brother, Poppo (III.) Von Lauffen, Bruno founded the Odenheim monastery in 1122 - probably with his share of the inheritance .

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Bruno, Archbishop of Trier. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 774.
• Leopold von Eltester :  Brun, Archbishop of Trier . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 434.
• Ludwig H. Hildebrandt: The counties of Elsenz and Kraichgau in the high Middle Ages, their counts and their castle seats with special consideration of Bretten , in: Brettener Jahrbuch NF 5, Bretten 2008, excursus on Bruno von Trier pp. 56-58.
• Hermann Ries:  Brun, Count of Bretten and Lauffen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 672 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Bruno von Lauffen in the Saarland biographies
• Bruno von Bretten in the personal register of the Germania Sacra online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hansmartin Schwarzmaier : The foundations of the monastery of Gottesaue and Odenheim . In: Papal history and regional history . Böhlau, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-412-10894-4 , pp. 221 .
2. ^ List of the bishops of Trier. In: dominformation.de. Diocese of Trier , accessed on January 11, 2018 (list of bishops, some are missing there). 
3. ↑ Bautz 1975, Col. 774.
4. ↑ Hildebrandt 2008, p. 56.
5. ↑ Hildebrandt 2008, p. 57.
6. ↑ A. Goerz: Regesten der Archbishop von Trier. Trier 1861, p. 13
7. ↑ U. Uffelmann: The Dilsberg in the Middle Ages. Neckargemünd 1985, p. 18.
8. ↑ Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 244, 1980, ISBN 3-88094-353-2

predecessor	Office	successor
Egilbert von Ortenburg	Archbishop of Trier 1102–1124	Gottfried von Falmagne