Bruno von Kirchberg

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Fresco in Bruneck depicting Bruno von Kirchberg (with the erroneous predicate of Bullenstätten )

Bruno von Kirchberg († August 24, 1288 in Brixen ) was Bishop of Brixen .

Bruno von Kirchberg came from a Swabian noble family from Illerkirchberg near Ulm . His father was Count Konrad I. von Kirchberg. His mother Bertha comes from the family of the Counts of Görz-Tirol. Maybe she was the sister of Count Meinhard III. von Gorizia, which was documented only once as a child without a name in 1206 when a gift from her father Engelbert III. from Gorizia to the church of Gurk is mentioned. Since Count Engelbert's wife Mathilde von Andechs had a sister named Bertha (Bertha von Andechs, Abbess of Gerbstedt), this would also explain Bruno's mother's name Bertha. The frequently mentioned assumption that Bruno's mother was a sister of Count Meinhard II of Tyrol and Gorizia (IV) is hardly possible for biological reasons: Bruno is at least 15/20 years before Meinhard II of Tyrol (* 1239 / 1240) born. Probably because of this relationship with the Counts of Gorizia, Bruno attended the Brixen Cathedral School, as a large part of the Puster Valley was subordinate to the Görzians at that time. He later became Canon of Magdeburg and cardinal deacon of S. Giorgio al Velabro. Otherwise nothing is known about his youth.

When the Trento bishop Aldriget von Campo died at the beginning of 1247, the cardinal Petrus Campocci appointed Bruno von Kirchberg as Bishop of Trento after long negotiations. In the meantime, however, another papal legate, Cardinal Octavianus, had appointed the Brixen prince-bishop Egno von Eppan as administrator of the diocese of Trento. Pope Innocent IV initiated further negotiations which lasted three years. After its completion, Egno von Eppan was finally appointed Prince-Bishop of Trento in 1250, while he had to leave the diocese of Brixen to Bruno von Kirchberg. But Bishop Bruno not only held the office of Bishop of Brixen, but also had worldly power as Prince of the German Empire.

The prince-bishopric (sometimes referred to as the Hochstift ) Brixen owned numerous estates in the Pustertal , including a residence in Aufhofen , which also served as the administrative center. To protect it from raids and robberies, Bishop Bruno had Bruneck Castle built on a rocky hill near by in 1250 ; at the same time he founded a town called Bruneck . But he did not remain idle in Brixen either. In the southwest of the city he had a new episcopal residence built and made the old one available in 1270 for an expansion of the Frauenkirche at the cathedral .

In 1265 Bruno made an alliance with his relative Meinhard II of Tyrol and Gorizia (IV), which amounted to almost complete submission. In 1274 Bruno took part in the Council of Lyon and in 1286 in the Würzburg National Synod. In March 1287 he wrote a document in Ulm (near his old home Kirchberg / Iller) for the church of St. Katharina in Ulm (1st). He died on August 24, 1288 and was buried in the Brixen Cathedral. The inscription of his lost epitaph read:

ANNO DOMINI M. CC. LXXXVIII. IN THE SANCTI BARTHOLOMAEI APOSTOLI OBIIT REVERENDVS IN CHRISTO PATER DOMINUS BRUNO COMES DE KIRCHPERG EPISCOPVS HVJVS ECCLESIAE CVJVS ANIMA REQVIESCAT IN PACE. QVI LAVDABILITER ANNIS XXXIX. REXIT ECCLESIAM.

literature

  • Erwin Gatz (ed.), With the assistance of Clemens Brodkorb: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 .
  • Franz HuterBrun (o). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 669 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ekkart SauserBruno von Kirchberg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 248-249.
  • Anselm Sparber: From the life and work of the Brixen prince-bishop Bruno von Kirchberg (1250–1288) . In: Hubert Stemberger (Ed.): Brunecker Buch. Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of the city elevation . Schlern writings, No. 152 . Wagner University Press, Innsbruck 1956.
  • Philipp Jedelhauser: The descent of Bishop Bruno von Brixen, Count of Kirchberg (Iller). With an excursus on Countess Mathilde von Andechs, wife of Count Engelbert III. von Gorizia and mother of Count Meinhard III. Krumbach 2017 (2nd revised edition), pp. 1–25, pp. 30-36, for the tradition of the epitaph, see note 19.

Individual evidence

  1. Friedrich Pressel: Ulmisches Urkundenbuch. Volume I, No. 159, p. 189, Ulm, 1287 March 30.

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