Dietleb

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Dietleb (also: Dietlieb; Diethlieb; Dethleb ; Czech: Dětleb ; * 1122 - † November 4, 1181 ) was Bishop of Olomouc .

Life

Dietleb is said to have been a son of the Moravian Duke Otto II . Dietleb's mother Sophia was a sister of Richinza, the wife of the Bohemian Duke Vladislav I. Sophias and Richinza's father was Count Heinrich von Berg from Württemberg .

After the death of the Olomouc bishop John IV. King Vladislav II. Dietleb nominated as his successor. The episcopal ordination is said to have taken place in 1174 by the Mainz Metropolitan .

It is known from Dietleb's tenure that in 1176 in Olomouc he donated a daily morning mass in honor of the Mother of God for the cathedral and St. Mauritius Church . In a dispute between Duke Konrad von Znojmo and Duke Soběslav II , he is said to have brought about a reconciliation between the two. Between 1174 and 1180 Dietleb appears more often in documents of the dukes Soběslav II and Friedrich as a witness.

literature

  • Josef Matzke : Dietleb 1172–81 ("10th Bishop") . In: Moravian-Silesian Homeland . Born 1967, issue 1, pp. 272–274
predecessor Office successor
John IV Bishop of Olomouc
1172–1181
Pilgrim