Gebhard I. of Plain

Gebhard I. von Plain (Pleyen) (* 1170 ; † October 11, 1232 in Rome ) was Bishop of Passau from 1222 to 1232 .

Life

Gebhard was born in 1170 as the second son of Count Liutpold von Plain- Hardegg and Countess Utta von Burghausen. On June 18, 1210 he received the parish Grafenwörth as Passau canon .

In March 1222 he was elected Bishop of Passau, with his relationship to the Staufers playing a major role. He pursued an energetic parish policy, which also led to violent conflicts with monasteries striving for independence from the bishop.

On March 17th, 1225 Gebhard issued the first Passau town charter. In the same year he built the city judge's house opposite the town hall (today the “Hotel zum Wilden Mann”) and incorporated the “Örtl” at the confluence of the Danube and Inn rivers into the city.

The great clergy and monastery visions by order of Pope Gregory IX. Gebhard carried out very conscientiously in 1229 and excommunicated around 40 abbots, provosts and pastors of his diocese . This led to conflicts with the cathedral chapter . Even the murder of Canon Eberhard von Jahenstorf on May 6, 1231 was subsequently blamed on Gebhard, although citizens of Passau were also suspected. In 1232, the pope and the emperor were in dispute and Gebhard was on the papal side - the cathedral chapter, however, sympathized with the emperor. As a result, the dispute between the bishop and the cathedral chapter escalated, which ultimately led to Gebhard's resignation. He left Passau and went to Rome, where he died on October 11, 1232.

literature

• Erwin Gatz (ed.), With the assistance of Clemens Brodkorb: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , p. 552.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Passauer Jahrbuch , Volume 51, Verlag des Verein für Ostbairische Heimatforschung, 2009, p. 48 f.