Dietmar II (Salzburg)

Coin with the image of Archbishop Dietmar

Dietmar II , also Theotmar or Thietmar († July 28, 1041 in Salzburg), was an archbishop of Salzburg in the 11th century.

Life

Dietmar received the archbishopric ordination on December 21, 1025 and the pallium from the Pope on July 21, 1026 . In addition, in 1027 he was the first Archbishop of Salzburg to be given permission to make decisions in his diocese instead of the Pope in urgent cases that could not be postponed. Associated with this was the right to use a lecture cross and a horse decorated in red on high feast days. For this privilege that developed in the wake Legatenwürde the archbishop as a so-called "born legate" ( legatus natus ), the authority of a papal legate of his office as Metropolitan belongs to Salzburg automatically. As early as 1179, the Salzburg archbishops wore the “legate purple” as a sign of their special dignity on festive occasions in their diocese.

Together with his King Konrad II , Dietmar moved to Italy in 1027 and lived there for the solemn coronation of Konrad by Pope John XIX. at. The Archbishop of Salzburg also took part in the papal synod there on April 6th and was always a loyal follower of his lord and emperor. He rewarded these services with donations of two forest areas in Upper Bavaria and the wide alluvial forest fringe area on both sides of the Salzach, which stretched south of the city of Salzburg to the Schwarzenbach near Golling (in which he had previously only had the hunting and fishing rights). With the successor of Conrad II, Heinrich III. , Dietmar met just a few months after he took office and took part in the unsuccessful campaign of the young king against Duke Bretislav I of Bohemia in 1040 . Soon after, the archbishop died.

literature

• Heinz Dopsch , Hans Spatzenegger (ed.): History of Salzburg, city and country . Pustet, Salzburg 1988; ISBN 3-7025-0243-2

predecessor	Office	successor
Gunther von Meissen	Archbishop of Salzburg 1025-1041	Baldwin