Gebhard III. (Regensburg)

Illustration in the Obley book. At the top left the bishop as the founder of the Canons' Monastery of Öhringen

Gebhard III. (* Beginning of the 11th century; † December 2, 1060 in Regensburg ) was the 16th bishop of Regensburg from 1036 to 1060.

The ancestry of Gebhard in the paternal line is not fully established, possibly as the son of Poppos (V.) he came from the Popponen family . Through his mother, Adelheid von Metz , he was a half-brother of Konrad II. Immediately at the beginning of his office as Bishop of Regensburg, he and his mother founded the Canons' Monastery of Öhringen , to which the Öhringer foundation letter refers. He tried to exert his influence on the monastery of Sankt Emmeram by dismissing several abbots and raising financial claims. The monk Otloh von St. Emmeram reported of a hermit who saw the bishop and the Prague bishop Severus in a vision "on glowing thrones in hell". The monk Mercherdach , venerated as blessed, lived at that time as an inclusion in the Obermünster Church in Regensburg.

Gebhard III. fought in 1040 under Heinrich III. against the Bohemian Duke Břetislav I. He took part in the Hungarian campaign in 1044 and in the Italian campaign in 1046 . Gebhard III. 1049 and 1050 raids against the Hungarians, these devastated the Neumark during a pursuit . The Hochstift Regensburg initiated defensive measures. Henry III. continued against the Hungarians under King Andrew I from 1051 . This called Pope Leo IX. as an intermediary. As a result, Heinrich III withdrew. back. Gebhard III. returned to Regensburg in 1052 with the Emperor and Pope. On October 7, 1052, the remains of Wolfgang were transferred to the Wolfgang crypt, and Erhard received a similar honor in the Niedermünsterkirche . At the Diet of Regensburg in 1055, the Eichstätter Bishop Gebhard I was appointed as the successor to the late Pope Leo IX. suggested, and also Gebhard III. found himself in the army of Henry III. in Rome. With the tight leadership of Henry III. Gebhard III was found dissatisfied. in a murder plot against the emperor. The co-conspirator Welf III. , who unexpectedly fell ill, revealed this plan and Gebhard III. was then imprisoned at Wülflingen Castle - Tschudi speaks of Hohenstoffeln Castle . In 1056 he was pardoned and released.

literature

Michael Buchberger (Ed.): 1200 years of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1939. p. 29f.
Harry Breßlau : Gebhard III., Bishop of Regensburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 470-472.
Hansmartin Decker-Hauff : The Öhringer foundation letter . In: Württembergisch Franken . tape 41 (new episode 31). Historical Association for Württemberg Franconia, Schwäbisch Hall 1957, p. 17-31 .
Hansmartin Decker-Hauff: The Öhringer Foundation Letter II . In: Württembergisch Franken . tape 42 (new episode 32). Historical Association for Württemberg Franconia, Schwäbisch Hall 1958, p. 3-32 .
Kurt Reindel : Gebhard III .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 115 f. ( Digitized version ).
Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966, p. 29f.

Individual evidence

^ Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966, p. 29.
^ Aegidius Tschudi: Chronicon Helveticum

predecessor	Office	successor
Gebhard II.	Bishop of Regensburg 1036-1060	Otto von Riedenburg

personal data
SURNAME	Gebhard III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Regensburg
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	December 2, 1060
Place of death	regensburg

[1] Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966, p. 29.

[2] Aegidius Tschudi: Chronicon Helveticum