Bruno of Würzburg

Statue of St. Bruno on the Old Main Bridge, Würzburg.

Bruno von Würzburg (* around 1005; † May 27, 1045 Persenbeug ), also known as Bruno of Carinthia , from the Salier family , was Chancellor of Italy from 1027 to 1034 and bishop of Würzburg from April 14, 1034 .

Origin and imperial politics

Copper engraving by the Würzburg court and university engraver Johann Salver (1670–1738) from the series with Würzburg prince-bishops

Church window in the parish church of Liesing designed by Martin Häusle

Bruno was the son of Duke Konrad I of Carinthia and Mathilde of Swabia and thus the cousin of the Salier emperor Konrad II . For Henry III. he wooed Agnes von Poitou , accompanied her on his campaign in Hungary and was killed in an accident in Persenbeug on the Danube in what is now Lower Austria .

Accidental death of Bruno

The traveling party of Heinrich III. had stopped at the Countess Richlinde von Ebersberg, who was faced with the task of distributing the inheritance of her recently deceased husband Adalbero II von Ebersberg . At a feast of the hostess, a supporting pillar broke below the ballroom and caused the entire floor to collapse, so that those present fell into the bathroom below. The king was slightly injured, but the hostess, Bruno and the abbot Altmann of the Ebersberg monastery were so badly injured that they did not survive the next few days. The annals of Niederaltaich provide a legendary prehistory: During the Danube vortex near Grein , the devil is said to have already appeared to the bishop and threatened him, but the bishop was still able to banish him. The bishop's body was transferred to his residence.

Many cathedral buildings were built during that time, and there was even talk of a building euphoria. Under Bruno, the new construction of the Würzburg Cathedral St. Kilian began in 1040 . The inauguration of the crypt on June 16, 1045 was combined with Bruno's burial. The Catholic Church commemorates him on May 27th .

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg, saint. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 774-775.
• Theodor Henner:  Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 435 f.
• Peter Kolb, Ernst-Günter Krenig (Hrsg.): Lower Franconian history. Würzburg 1989, pp. 229-232.
• Hans Jürgen Rieckenberg:  Brun. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 673 ( digitized version ).
• Paul-Werner Scheele : Bruno von Würzburg. The saint in his and our time. Real publishing house, Würzburg 2001.
• Alfred Wendehorst : Bruno , in: The Diocese of Würzburg Part 1: The series of bishops until 1254 . (= Germania Sacra ; NF 1). Berlin 1962, pp. 92-100 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Bruno von Würzburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Bruno von Würzburg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Bruno von Würzburg  in the German Digital Library
• Bruno von Würzburg in the personal register of the Germania Sacra online
• Incunable Psalterium beati Brunonis episcopi herbipolensis (Anton Koberger, Nuremberg 1497) , digitized version of the Universidad de los Andes

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franconia in the Middle Ages, House of Bavarians. History 2004, [calendar], March / April

predecessor	Office	successor
Meginhard I.	Bishop of Würzburg 1034-1045	Adalbero