Dietrich von Albeck

Dietrich von Albeck († between March 3 and 21, 1194 ) was Dietrich I, Bishop of Gurk .

Dietrich von Albeck was a son of Rudolf von Albeck († 1191), his brother Poppo von Albeck died in 1190 in a crusade. His uncle Poppo von Albeck was Bishop of Pedena in Istria. After the death of Bishop Roman II von Leibnitz , the Gurkers unlawfully elected the Archdeacon of Aquileja, Hermann von Ortenburg , as their new bishop. The Archbishop of Salzburg Konrad III. answered this challenge with the appointment of Dietrich von Albeck, provost of Gurk. So that the opposing bishop could not squander his fiefs to win followers, following the example of the invading Berthold von Zeltschach , the archbishop had obtained the ruling of the prince's court at the Diet of Augsburg, according to which no Gurk bishop may give his fiefdom before he was not from the archbishop received the investiture with the regalia . Hermann von Ortenburg took the Strasbourg fortress, while Konrad III. rushed to the siege. Hermann's followers were horribly devastated and on November 29, 1179 the siege was abandoned.

On February 2, 1180 Dietrich von Albeck was ordained bishop in Salzburg and on the same day Pope Alexander III fell. the judgment that the election by the Gurk Church was illegal and that only the Archbishop of Salzburg was entitled to vote.

While Konrad III. While staying in Bavaria, the opposing bishop Hermann succeeded again in 1180 in besieging the fortress in Strasbourg and Strasbourg became the scene of an episcopal war for the second time. Again Konrad came to the aid of the legitimate Gurk bishop and Hermann's situation was hopeless. The papal legate Petrus de Bono brokered the peace and Hermann renounced the episcopal dignity, the fortress of Strasbourg surrendered and was cremated as punishment.

Dietrich was a loyal supporter of his archbishop and he traveled with him to Verona in 1184 , where the Pope and the Emperor stayed. From 1191 onwards, the bishop would no longer have left his diocese due to illness. In 1194 he renounced his office as bishop and died a few weeks later between March 3rd and 21st, 1194.

literature

• Jakob Obersteiner: The bishops of Gurk. 1072–1822 (= From Research and Art. 5, ISSN  0067-0642 ). Verlag des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1969, pp. 59–64.