Eberhard of Aquileia

Eberhard († November 13, 1048 ) was Patriarch of Aquileia from 1043 to 1048.

Eberhard (also: Eppo) was canon in Augsburg ; the same name as him bore the first bishop of Bamberg (1007-1040) and an Augsburg bishop (1029-1047), which can be regarded as his relatives.

King Heinrich, later Emperor Heinrich III. , made the Augsburg canon Chancellor for Germany; as such it is proven from July 4, 1040 to November 8, 1042; but he certainly belonged to the court orchestra some time before. After two years of chancellorship, Heinrich appointed him Patriarch of Aquileia, to succeed Poppo, who died on September 28, 1042 . Eberhard, who as Chancellor for Germany occupied an important position within the court orchestra and was one of Heinrich's closest circle, was probably close to the reformist ideas of the time.

Eberhard was invested as a patriarch on February 1, 1043. There is no news about him from the following years, except for a reference to the ordination of one of his suffragan bishops, Marcianus of Mantua. In 1046 Heinrich III. held a synod on his first Italian march in Pavia, of which Eberhard is attested; she issued a general ban on simony . From Pavia the king moved on to Rome via Sutri; Eberhard accompanied him like the Bishop of Arles and probably numerous other participants in the synod there. The Synod of Sutri (December 20, 1046) put the Popes on Silvester III. and Gregory VI. from, that of Rome (December 24th) also Pope Benedict IX. ; The Bishop of Bamberg Suidger, also a court orchestra leader, was raised to the new Pope, Clemens II. he crowned Heinrich III. on December 25th in Rome to the emperor. So Eberhard was present at all these events. On January 5, 1047, the new Pope held a synod against simony in Rome; in its course the old dispute revived as to which of the highest-ranking northern Italian archbishops, Milan or Ravenna , should take the place of honor on the right of the Pope. Now the Patriarch of Aquileja, Eberhard, also announced claims to this place and thus to priority over all churches in Italy. In 1047, however, the Pope and Synod decided in favor of the Archbishop of Ravenna. On the retreat from Rome to the north, Emperor Heinrich III. in April 1047 in Ravenna. There, too, the Patriarch of Aquileia meets in his vicinity; he had Heinrich III. so most likely accompanied on his entire Italian march from October 1046 (Pavia) to April 1047 (Ravenna).

Eberhard died at the end of 1048 (not 1049, as is often stated) on November 13th. His successor in the patriarchal chair , Gotebold , was installed at Christmas 1048.

literature

• Irmgard Fees :  Eberardo. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 42:  Dugoni – Enza. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1993, pp. 255-256.
• Josef Fleckenstein : The court chapel of the German kings , vol. II: The court chapel as part of the Ottonian-Salian imperial church , Stuttgart 1966.
• Ovidio Capitani : Immunità vescovili ed ecclesiologia in età “pregregoriana” e “gregoriana”, l'avvio alla “restaurazione” , Spoleto 1966, p. 61.
• Pio Paschini : Storia del Friuli , 3rd edition, Udine 1975, p. 227ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Poppo	Patriarch of Aquileia 1043-1048,	Gotebald