Dietwin

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Dietwin (also Theodwin ) († March 7, 1153 ) was a monk of the Mauermünster monastery, became abbot in Gorze , 1134 Cardinal Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina and was papal legate at the Second Crusade .

Life

Dietwin, who came from Swabia , was a papal legate from 1134, first under Emperor Lothar III. , then as a supporter of the Hohenstaufen under King Konrad III. active in Germany.

When Duke Friedrich II of Swabia submitted to Fulda in October 1134, Dietwin released him from his spell, celebrated Christmas in Aachen with the emperor and stood by him at the Reichstag held in Bamberg in March 1135.

After Lothar's death he reappeared in Germany, with the consent of the Pope, the Romans and the cities of Italy and in agreement with Archbishop Adalbert von Trier, to enforce the elevation of Duke Conrad to King against Duke Heinrich the Proud . He accompanied him, who had already been elected in Koblenz on March 13, 1138, to the coronation ceremonies in Aachen, where he performed the coronation himself, since the Archbishop of Cologne did not yet have the pallium . With this, Dietwin's task as papal legate was by no means solved, rather he stood by the king in an advisory capacity in the next few years, in November and December 1140 during the siege of Weinsberg , in the spring of 1141 in Regensburg, when it came down to it, his half-brother, the Babenberger Leopold IV , to protect against the attacks of Duke Welf , in the very first two months of 1142, when the king had to make provisions about the finished Duchy of Bavaria and the Rhineland Palatinate after the unexpected death of Leopold IV on October 18 . His mission ended when, at the great Reichstag in Frankfurt in May 1142, through the marriage of Gertrude of Saxony , the widow of Duke Heinrich the Proud, with Heinrich Jasomirgott of Austria , the king's brother, a stable peace was finally achieved between the Staufer and Saxon parties was achieved.

When, 5 years later, King Konrad III. Having followed the call of St. Bernard and taken the vow of crusade, Dietwin appeared again as papal legate in Germany. First he brought a complaint from Pope Eugene III. because Konrad had not previously sought advice and approval from the Roman Curia on this matter . Then he, not St. Bernard, and the cardinal priest Guido of Florence were chosen as apostolic legates to accompany the two kings of Germany and France on the Second Crusade to the Holy Land . During the crusade Dietwin could hardly develop his influence, as far as it was a matter of asserting him as a German against the French. Only after Easter 1149 does he seem to have left the holy land with King Ludwig VII . Notwithstanding the pathetic failure of the Second Crusade, as early as 1150 France had lively plans for new crusades. Dietwin supported this in the spirit of the Pope by calling on King Conrad from Italy to dissolve his alliance with the Byzantine Emperor and to come to an understanding with King Roger II of Sicily, who was a friend of the French and who was attacked by the Byzantines . These attempts were of course in vain.

Dietwin died in 1153.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Brixius, p. 47 he died in 1151

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SURNAME Dietwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theodwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cardinal Bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1153