Heribert (Eichstätt)

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Bishop Heribert in the Pontifical Gundekarianum

Heribert († July 24, 1042 in or near Freising ) was Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt from 1022 to 1042.

origin

Heribert was the brother of the subsequent Bishop Gez (e) mann . The brothers probably came from the noble Rhine-Franconian family of the Konradines , who were wealthy in Wormsgau , and were nephews of both Würzburg Bishop Heinrich I († 1018) and Cologne Archbishop Heribert († 1021). The relationship to Abbot Williram von Ebersberg is also known . Heribert and the other family members attributed the older research to the Counts of Rothenburg (after Rothenburg ob der Tauber ), so Heribert is also incorrectly referred to as Heribert von Rothenburg .

Live and act

Together with his brother Gez (e) mann, Heribert attended the cathedral school in Würzburg, where he also became canon of Würzburg . The episcopal nephew was a talented hymn poet who made a name for himself not only on the Main; the hymns have survived in numerous manuscripts.

As a nobleman of Heinrich II, he was apparently used as a counterweight to the ducal violence in Bavaria and Swabia. Heinrich II and his successor Konrad II had a close relationship with the diocese of Eichstätt. Heribert was following the king's entourage on several stations within the empire.

Proud of the education experienced in Würzburg, Heribert did not think much of the Eichstätter education system; so he tried to depose the cathedral scholaster Gunderam, which he finally did not because of the advocacy from Würzburg. He reduced the cathedral chapter from 70 to 50 canons and resigned the surplus canons with pastoral positions. He was also not satisfied with the structural conditions of his episcopal city. So he had everything demolished and rebuilt here: his palace, the cathedral canon houses and the Marienkirche. A St. Peter's Monastery on the Burgberg and a Bartholomew Chapel were built as new buildings under him. The small Holy Cross Church had to give way to the new Sankt Walburg monastery . He also renewed the walling of the city. Heribert thus resembled Eichstätt architecturally to the most important bishopric of his time.

Apparently he even planned to move the bishopric. While the older research with the interpretation of Nuenburhens with the assignment of Nuremberg provoked contradictions, in the more recent research the intended location Neuburg an der Donau appears plausible; he even wanted to transfer the remains of the founder of the diocese, Willibald . Henry III. and the diocese of Augsburg prevented Neuburg from coming into Heribert's possession. According to the anonymous von Herrieden in his Eichstätter bishop chronicle (around 1075), Heribert should have died on the way back from the imperial court in or near Freising. He was buried in Freising Monastery by the Freising Bishop Nitker , who had accompanied him.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Stammler : The German Literature of the Middle Ages: Author's Lexicon, Volume 3 , W. de Gruyter, 1981, ISBN 3-11-008778-2
  2. ^ 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 . P. 53f.
predecessor Office successor
Walther Bishop of Eichstätt
1022-1042 		Gezemann
personal data
SURNAME Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1042
Place of death near Freising