Gebhard von Henneberg

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Gebhard von Henneberg (* around 1100; † March 17, 1159 in Würzburg ) was Bishop of Würzburg from 1150 until his death.

Gebhard von Henneberg was a younger son of Burgrave Godebold II of Würzburg , a brother of Poppos II, Count of Henneberg , and of Bishop Günther von Speyer .

Gebhard was elected Bishop of Würzburg in 1121 and installed the following year by Emperor Heinrich V - shortly before the Worms Concordat and the end of the investiture dispute . In 1127 he resigned, since he had only been appointed by the emperor, after years of fighting in which he could not assert himself in Würzburg. For the years from 1121 to 1127 Gebhard is thus listed as the counter-bishop , who initially competed with Rugger . In 1125 Ulrich von Bamberg dedicated the work Codex Udalrici to him .

23 years later, in 1150, he became bishop of Würzburg again and this time he was able to take office. In 1152 he campaigned for Friedrich Barbarossa's election as German king: from then on he could be found in his immediate vicinity. The relationship between Gebhard and Friedrich became so close that a court day was held in Würzburg in 1155 and a Reichstag in 1157 - and Gebhard was the host on June 17, 1156 at Friedrich's wedding to Beatrix of Burgundy . Gebhard took part in the campaign against Poland in 1157 and in 1158 in the second Italian campaign.

Around the middle of the 12th century transferred - according to what the licentiate Franz Hugo Brandt from 1794 - Gebhard funds raised by him in the city of Wuerzburg "Brothers of the Holy Hospital in Jerusalem," the "on the sand" (in the Sanderau ) location St. Oswaldspital, which is said to have become the Johanniterspital and seat of the members of the order.

Gebhard was also a sponsor of the Cistercian order . In 1127 the Ebrach Monastery was founded. The first abbot Adam came from Morimond Primary Abbey. Despite the low initial equipment, the monastery developed rapidly - also with the protection of the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I of Saarbrücken . In the abbey buildings completed in 1134, King Conrad III. his final resting place with his wife. The filiations of Ebrach spread widely, including the Nepomuk monastery in Bohemia. In addition to Ebrach, the Bildhausen monastery was also built around 1156 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 389-391.
predecessor Office successor
Erlung Elekt of Würzburg
1121–1127 		Embricho
Siegfried von Truhendingen Bishop of Würzburg
1150–1159 		Heinrich II of Stühlingen
personal data
SURNAME Henneberg, Gebhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Würzburg (1150-1159)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1100
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1159
Place of death Wurzburg