Embricho from Würzburg

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Embricho († November 10, 1146 in Aquileia ) was bishop of Würzburg from 1127 until his death .

Embricho in the family context

Embricho, also Embrico or Emich, came from a noble family in the Mainzer Sprengel . The name points to a descent from the Embrichonen resident in the Rheingau , by which Archbishop Ruthard von Mainz was previously identified. The often quoted origin from the family of the Counts of Leiningen is incorrect.

At the wedding of King Conrad III. Sister-in-law Bertha von Sulzbach with the Greek Emperor Manuel I was Embricho at the end of his life in Constantinople as the diplomatic envoy of Conrad III. present. On the way back he died in Aquileia and was buried there too. His tomb is no longer preserved.

Embricho as a bishop

Because of his acquaintance with Hugo Mettelus von Toul, it is believed that he studied in Lorraine and Sorbonne . The Archbishop of Mainz, Adalbert I of Saarbrücken , installed him in the royal chancellery, and later also as provost in Erfurt Cathedral . On the recommendation of the Archbishop and with the support of King Lothar III. he was appointed bishop of Würzburg in 1127 . He ended a five-year schism in which Provost Rudger faced Gebhard von Henneberg . When Rudger died in 1125, Gebhard also had to give way, because both the emperor and the pope refused to favor him.

Embricho is described as a prudent ruler in political as well as religious questions. He founded several monasteries, including the Schottenkloster Würzburg , Wechterswinkel monastery and Oberzell monastery of the Premonstratensians . The first abbot of the Schottenkloster was Makarius in 1139 , who was specially recalled as prior of the Schottenkloster in Regensburg . For the late bishop of Bamberg Otto I , he held the funeral oration . He was considered a loyal follower of Emperor Lothar III. and later also Conrad III.

In the struggle between the Hohenstaufen and the Guelphs , the diocese assumed a strategically important position: It separated the two Guelph areas of influence, Bavaria and Saxony. With Konrad III. he moved against Duke Heinrich the Proud to the Werra. At the Reichstag in Würzburg in 1138, the imperial ban was pronounced against Heinrich. Embricho moved with the king to Saxony and against Welf VI. to Swabia, including the siege of Weinsberg .

literature

  • Franz Xaver von Wegele :  Embricho . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 79 f.
  • Alfred Wendehorst:  Embricho. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 474 ( digitized version ).
  • Alfred Wendehorst: Embricho Bishop of Würzburg. In: Gerhard Pfeiffer (Ed.): Fränkische Lebensbilder. Volume 2. Kommissionsverlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1968, ( Publications of the Society for Franconian History, Series VII A. Volume 2), pp. 1–7.
  • Peter Kolb, Ernst-Günter Krenig (Hrsg.): Lower Franconian history. Volume 1: From the Germanic conquest to the high Middle Ages. Echter, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 3-429-01263-5 , pp. 335-338.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Wendehorst:  Embricho. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 474 ( digitized version ).
predecessor Office successor
Gebhard von Henneberg Bishop of Würzburg
1127–1146 		Siegfried von Truhendingen
personal data
SURNAME Embricho from Würzburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Embrico of Würzburg; Embrico; Emich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Würzburg
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1146
Place of death Aquileia