Herold (Salzburg)

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Herold († after 967 in Säben ) was a Salzburg archbishop and abbot of the St. Peter monastery in the 10th century, who was blinded and deposed by King Otto in 955 for violating his duty of loyalty .

Life

Herold comes from the ducal noble family of the Luitpoldinger , whose loyalty Otto wanted to secure with his appointment. Herold is presumably a son of Count Albrich, with whom Herold's predecessor Adalbert II exchanged properties in Carantania . In the first years of the reign, Herold also stood by King Otto and was a reliable follower. Otto's request was to push back the old power of the tribal dukes in favor of a clear royal role, where he very much hoped for the support of the high-ranking clergy and made various concessions to them. In 940 the king confirmed the possession of the royal court Salzburghofen (today Freilassing ) to the archbishopric, including important income and duties in Reichenhall . Otto confirmed the immunity of the Archbishop and the Salzburg Church, including all associated abbeys and cells, and expressly released them from the count's ban and court.

All three Rhenish archbishops were appointed arch chaplains, to which the Salzburg archbishop joined as fourth in 945, after he referred to the 70 years in which the Salzburg archbishops had exercised this office alone.

After the death of the Luitpolding Bavarian Duke Berthold , the king gave the Duchy of Bavaria to his brother Heinrich I to strengthen the central power of the German kings. Heinrich's nephew, named Luidolf, felt that he was being passed over as a Swabian duke and, in 953, undertook a first uprising against the king together with key Luitpolders. In this conflict, too, the Archbishop of Salzburg was loyal to the king, despite his relationship to the rebels, who thanked the Archbishop of Salzburg by donating additional goods. The Archbishop's activities at the Synod of Ingelheim (948) and the Reichstag of Augsburg (952) also fell during this period .

In the following dispute, in which a number of rebels moved to the king's camp, the Salzburg archbishop now joined the rebels' camp and thus his relatives, the Luitpoldinger. Despite the reconciliation of the rebels with the king and the death of the leader of the rebels, Count Palatine Arnulf, the conflict did not end until the battle of Mühldorf, which presumably took place on May 1, 955. In this final dispute, the Archbishop of Salzburg was captured by Otto. Otto, known as irascible, was accused of high treason and rebellion, blinded him and sent him into exile in Säben. After Herold did not want to take notice of this banishment and deposition and continued to perform liturgical acts, the Pope threatened him with the ban in 962 if he did not abandon it and accused Herold of having lured the Hungarians to Bavaria. In 967 the Pope renewed the threat of ban that Emperor Otto the Great and 59 archbishops and bishops had signed. Herold's guilt has not been finally proven.

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predecessor Office successor
Egilolf Archbishop of Salzburg
939–955 		Friedrich I.
personal data
SURNAME Herald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Salzburg
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH around 967
Place of death Sawing