Hartbert of Brandenburg

Hartbert was Bishop of Brandenburg from 1102 to 1122/1123 .

Life

Hartbert was ordained bishop by Magdeburg's Archbishop Hartwig . In 1107 he appeared as auxiliary bishop in the Mainz diocese. There he consecrated a church in Medenbach in the Taunus. In 1108 he called together with the bishops of the Magdeburg church province and the secular lords of East Saxony to a common crusade against the Wende . Soon afterwards he personally undertook the first missionary attempt and had a wooden church built in Leitzkau . As auxiliary bishop he was active again in Central Germany in 1112, where he consecrated an oratorio in the Herrenbreitungen monastery on September 8th . The bishop then continued the missionary work he had begun in his diocese and had the stone church in Leitzkau built around 1113 to 1114 . In June 1119 he attended the funeral of Archbishop Adelgoz . In February 1122 he appeared at the imperial court of Heinrich V in Würzburg. The date and place of his death are unknown.

source

• Personal database for Germania Sacra , accessed on June 27, 2017.
• Germania-sacra , accessed June 27, 2017.

literature

• Gustav Abb , Gottfried Wentz : The Diocese of Brandenburg. First part (= Germania Sacra . AF, 1. Abtl., 1. Bd.). de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1929, p. 23 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Volkmar II.	Bishop of Brandenburg 1102–1122 / 1123	Ludolf