Hunfried

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Hunfried († August 24, 1051 ) was Archbishop of Ravenna from 1046 to 1051 .

Life

Hunfried was a son of Count Liutold von Mömpelgard , son of Duke Konrad I of Swabia , and Freiin Willibirg von Wülflingen (now part of Winterthur ), who gave her husband the rule of this name. The family must Heinrich III.have been particularly devoted. When the uprising against Heinrich broke out in Lorraine and Burgundy in 1044, Liutold's brother, Count Ludwig, was besieged in his fortress Mömpelgard by Count Reginold of Hochburgund, one of the leaders of the uprising, but defeated it so decisively that Reginold surrendered to the king at the end of January 1045 in Solothurn. At this time the Countess Willibirg was already a widow. Her son Hunfried, Canon of Strasbourg, handed over his paternal estate Embrach (not far from Wülflingen) to Bishop Wilhelm of Strasbourg in 1044 for the attention of the episcopal church , after he had it in the district court of Thurgau Count Bertold (from Zähringen?)against his closest blood relatives, his sister Adelheid, wife of Count Rudolf von Achalm and their children. Hunfried reserved lifelong usufruct for his mother Williberg and himself. The Canons' Monastery in Embrach, with the exception of this donation, he and his sister gave together, along with the village of Sasbach im Breisgau, to the Strasbourg church.

Hunfried shared the favor in which his uncle and probably his father had been with King Heinrich; he entered Henry's chancellery and became the king's chancellor for Italy, in which position he has appeared since at least July 12, 1045. The king's companion to Italy, in autumn 1046, Hunfried was appointed Archbishop of Ravenna in December 1046 (in place of Witger, who was deposed in May 1046 because of simony ) and consecrated by Pope Clement II on Christmas Day 1046 immediately after Henry's coronation as emperor. The election of the German compatriot as archbishop had no doubt the full approval of the new pope, and just as he presented him with the honor of this consecration immediately after the emperor's coronation, so under his influence the new archbishop Hunfried immediately enjoyed a new success which the same had to attach great importance to. On the first day of the Synod, which the Pope held in Rome at the beginning of January 1047, the Archbishop of Milan claimed the dispute over the primacy between the three great Metropolitans of Italy, the Archbishops of Milan and Ravenna and the Patriarch of Aquileja, existed for a long time and had already led to annoying appearances on the day of the coronation of Emperor Conrad II (March 26, 1027), but at that time, under the influence of the powerful Archbishop Aribert, the decision in favor of Milan was "forever". Pope Clemens initiated formal legal proceedings on the question and confirmed the decision of the Synod, which was in favor of Ravenna, by means of a bull, which granted Hunfried and all his successors in office the right to be the first among the metropolitans to be the pope in the presence of the emperor first on the left, but the emperor is not present, to sit on the right side of the pope, in the emperor's seat. The German Bishop Poppo von Brixen , who was present, supported this knowledge, as well as the entire clergy in Rome . After these events it only seems natural that Hunfried followed Pope Clement II († October 9, 1047) and also as this Bishop Poppo as Pope Damasus II (July 17 - August 9, 1048) on the papal chair , remained in untroubled enjoyment of his position. But when Emperor Heinrich raised the Bishop of Toul to Pope and this on February 12, 1049 under the name Leo IX. Consecrated, not only the matters of church reform, but also the restoration of the prestige and rights of the papal see, which had suffered in many ways under the past turmoil, and took up almost forgotten claims of Rome to the exarchate again, a conflict occurred in 1050 him and Archbishop Hunfried. At the Synod of Vercelli in September 1050, there were appearances between the two, as a result of which Hunfried was punished by the church and suspended in his office. When the Pope then went to Germany and met the Kaiser in Augsburg at the beginning of February 1051, Archbishop Hunfried was given a decision. On the order of the emperor, in view of the assembled bishops, Hunfried had to apologize to the pope on foot, but behaved so scornfully, standing up again with mocking features, that Pope Leo, who gave him divine grace according to the measure of his sincere penance had assured, is said to have exclaimed lamentably: "Oh woe, this unhappy man is dead!" Soon after his return to Ravenna or during the journey there, the archbishop fell ill and when he died on August 24, 1051, some wrote his unexpected end to it of him in Augsburg showed iniquity, others to poisoning.

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SURNAME Hunfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Umfredus from Mömpelgart-Wülflingen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Ravenna
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1051