Eberhard I (Bamberg)

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Eberhard (* around 973; † August 13, 1040 in Bamberg ) was the first bishop of Bamberg from 1007 to 1040 .

Origin and career

Eberhard probably came from the family of the Counts of Abenberg was perhaps a nephew of the diocese founder King and Henry II. Since 1006 he has been Chancellor occupied Germany and Italy, an office he first retained even after the founding of the diocese of Bamberg on November 1, 1007 and his ordination as bishop. As Chancellor for Italy from 1009 to the end of 1012, he remained a close advisor to the king. After the death of the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis († 1011), he was appointed Arch Chancellor for Italy at the beginning of 1013. He remained in this position until the death of Emperor Heinrich II. In 1024. Heinrich's successor Konrad II. (1024-1039) appointed Aribo , the archbishop of Mainz , who was already at the head of the German under Heinrich II Law firm had stood. Eberhard's influence at court declined.

Episcopal time

At a synod in Frankfurt am Main , the king managed to get the approval of the German bishops to found a new diocese after the Pope's promise had been in place since October 1007. Heinrich , the bishop of Würzburg , who was represented by his court chaplain Berengar, offered resistance. Archbishop Heribert of Cologne , a brother of the Würzburg bishop, abstained. On the same day, Eberhard, the king's chancellor, was ordained bishop by Archbishop Willigis of Mainz. His organizational development work in the diocese included the founding of the canons of St. Stephan (1007/1009) and the Benedictine monastery Michelsberg as an episcopal monastery (1015). The collegiate church of St. Stephen was consecrated in 1020 by Pope Benedict VIII . In the Hammersteinische Ehehändeln Eberhard stood on the side of the Archbishop of Mainz Aribo against the curia, in the Gandersheim church dispute he supported the claims of Bishop Godehard of Hildesheim . He took part in the Synod of Frankfurt in 1027 .

It is doubtful whether, after the coronation of Konrad II, the plan actually existed to repeal the diocese of Bamberg, as reported by Ekkehard von Aura . In the first year of Konrad's reign, Eberhard received a series of confirmations of the possessions of his church.

The diocese and its equipment

In May 1007 Heinrich donated his entire property in Volkfeld and the Carolingian royal court of Hallstadt in Radenzgau to his church, which was already under construction . About thirty other donations were certified under the date of the foundation of the diocese, November 1, 1007. These included the extensive holdings of the royal court in Forchheim and the estates of the Reich courts of Fürth and Hersbruck , places in Bavaria (e.g. Reichenhall and Isen ), in the Rheingau, in Swabia, Carinthia, in Styria and in Upper Austria. Heinrich left the abbeys of Bergen, Neuburg an der Donau , Gengenbach , Haselbach, Kitzingen and Stein am Rhein to the diocese . Later, the Schuttern monasteries in Ortenau, Deggingen in Ries and the canons' monastery for the Old Chapel in Regensburg were added. A further enlargement of the diocese area occurred after the death of Eichstätter Bishop Megingoz under Gundekar I. in the year 1016. The area between the Schwabach near Erlangen , the Regnitz, the east-west course of the Pegnitz and the watershed in the area of ​​Königstein / Hopfenohe was added to the diocese of Bamberg. In 1032 the royal parish of Hof in the north and in 1034 Amberg as a gift from Konrad were added.

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Eberhard I. is buried together with the Bamberg bishops Egilbert , Timo , Wulfing von Stubenberg and Heinrich II. Von Sternberg in a stone coffin, which today stands on the south wall of the crypt under the east choir of Bamberg Cathedral .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regesta Imperii III 1 no. P
  2. ↑ Regesta Imperii II 4, 1 No. 1647–1678
  3. ↑ Regesta Imperii III 1 No. 215
  4. ↑ Georg Thomas Rudhart: The King Konrad III. Graves in the dome of Bamberg . In: Archive for History and Archeology of Upper Franconia , Volume 3, Issue 2, Bayreuth 1846, pp. 101–107, here: p. 106 . Retrieved May 13, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Eberhard I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eberhard I of Bamberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Bamberg
DATE OF BIRTH at 973
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1040
Place of death Bamberg