Gezemann (Eichstätt)

Bishop Gezemann in the Pontifical Gundekarianum

Gezemann (also: Gezmann, Gezemannus, Gozemann; † October 17, 1042 in Eichstätt ) was bishop of Eichstätt for two months in 1042 .

Gezemann was the brother of the previous Bishop Heribert . They came from the noble Rhine-Franconian family of the Konradines , who were wealthy in Wormsgau . They were sons of Count Gezemann in Werngau and nephews of both Würzburg Bishop Heinrich I († 1018) and Cologne Archbishop Heribert († 1021). The relationship to Abbot Williram von Ebersberg is also known. The older research ascribes Gezemann and the other family members to the Counts of Rothenburg (after Rothenburg ob der Tauber ), Gezemann is therefore incorrectly referred to as "Gezemann von Rothenburg".

Gezemann received his training as well as his brother at the cathedral school in Würzburg and he became a cathedral canon. From 1024 he wrote under the emperors Konrad II. And Heinrich III. numerous documents, probably in the capacity of an imperial notary; 1038 his signature as an imperial "missus" (envoy) in Italy can be found on a document. Henry III. appointed him after the intercession of the Würzburg bishop Bruno of Carinthia in August 1042 in Bamberg to the bishop of Eichstätt. There Gezemann and Bruno consecrated the church of the St. Walburg monastery together on October 14, 1042 . Gezemann died three days later and was buried by Bishop Bruno next to his brother in the cathedral.

literature

• Klaus Kreitmeir: The bishops of Eichstätt. Eichstätt 1992: Verlag der Kirchenzeitung, p. 20.
• Alfred Wendehorst : The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume 1: The row of bishops until 1535 . Series: Germania Sacra - New Episode 45 . Berlin 2006. ISBN 978-3-11-018971-1 . Pp. 53, 57-58.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gezemann In: Alfred Wendehorst: The Diocese of Eichstätt: The series of bishops until 1535, Volume 1 , Max Planck Institute for History, p. 57f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heribert	Bishop of Eichstätt 1042	Gebhard I.