Emehard

Emehard (von Comburg) , also known as Eginhard († February 27, 1105 in Würzburg ), was Bishop of Würzburg from 1089 to 1105.

origin

Emehard was the eldest son of Richard von Comburg , according to genealogical counting he was Emehard II. He comes from the house of the Counts of Rothenburg-Comburg .

Emehard's brother Burkhard Graf von Comburg is considered to be the founder of the monastery, into which he initially only converted half of his father's castle, while the half that his younger brother Rugger was entitled to initially remained secular. Rugger as well as the youngest brother Heinrich II. (Heinrich I was Heinrich von Wolvingen, his grandfather) bore the title "Count of Rothenburg", while Burkhard referred to himself as Count von Comburg until 1085. Heinrich, in turn, was the father of the later Queen Gertrud, wife of Konrad III. In the 90s of the eleventh century (i.e. during the episcopal period of his eldest brother) he held the Hochstiftvogtei Würzburg, as well as those of the Neumünster Family Foundation and the Öhringen Monastery .

Elected bishop as the firstborn

The naming of Richard after Rothenburg is considered “unhistorical” - according to the yearbook 03 of the historical society Alt-Rothenburg ob der Tauber - “but it may be related to the fact that Comburg monastery insisted on being a purely spiritual institution at the time of writing (after 1116) to be, while secular rule - at that time justified - was settled in Rothenburg ”.

Richard's firstborn son, Emehard, embarking on a spiritual career was unusual. It is impossible to fathom what motives prompted him not to take over the secular offices and possessions of his father. Perhaps it was because the heirless death of his uncle Emehard I (von Wolvingen - the now defunct village of Wülfingen near Öhringen in what is now the Württemberg part of Franconia ) was not yet foreseeable around the year 1054. Count Emehard I. had from King Heinrich III. numerous goods in the Jagst- and Taubergrund received as donations , had close ties to the diocese of Würzburg and is considered to be the founder of the Neumünster there . Emehard is also said to have donated a hospital or hospital “ in the sand ” in Würzburg, the “Spital zum Heiligen Oswald”, at the beginning of the 12th century (in the same century it became a Johanniterspital ) - possibly also (with two locations) the Margaret Hospital .

Currents in the dispute over the bishopric

Emehard entered the diocese of Würzburg as a subdeacon before 1054 , when Adalbero , appointed by Heinrich III., Was bishop there. In 1089 Emehard was appointed bishop as his successor a year before Adalbero's death.

In 1096 he submitted to the Gregorian Pope Urban II in France , who had proclaimed the crusade at the Synod of Clermont , and thus, together with Otto of Strasbourg, is one of the only two bishops of the imperial church to be the camp of the ruling imperial antipope Clement III. left prematurely before his death in 1100.

Heinrich V reacted in 1105 with the appointment of a counter-bishop named Rupert , Bishop Erlung prevailed as his successor permanently.

literature

• Peter Kolb, Ernst-Günther Krenig (Ed.): Lower Franconian history . Volume 1: From the Germanic conquest to the high Middle Ages . Echter, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 3-429-01263-5 , pp. 300-301.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Also referred to as Richardus de Rothenburg in the founding document of the Comburg monastery .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Yearbook 03 of the Historical Society Alt-Rothenburg ob der Tauber
3. ^ Alfred Wendehorst The Diocese of Würzburg, Part 4: The Neumünster Abbey . Germania Sacra, ed. Max Planck Institute for History, New Series 20. Berlin 1989. Pages 50–53.
4. ^ Peter Kolb: The hospital and health system. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume 1, 2001, p 386-409 and 647-653, here: pp. 387-391 and 395.
5. ↑ Georg Gresser : The synods and councils in the time of the reform papacy in Germany and Italy by Leo IX. to Calixt II. 1049-1123. Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-74670-2 , p. 292.

predecessor	Office	successor
Adalbero counterbishop: Meginhard II.	Bishop of Würzburg 1089–1105	Erlung counterbishop: Rupert