Konrad I. von Geroldseck

Konrad I von Geroldseck was Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg from 1179 to 1180 under the rule of Emperor Friedrich I and the pontificate of Pope Alexander III. The Mainz metropolitan was Christian I von Buch .

Origin and family

Coat of arms of the Geroldseck

Pedigree of the Hohengeroldseck and Großgeroldseck am Wasichen

Konrad was the son of Dietrich (or Truther von Geroldseck) and Bertha.

The oldest known ancestor of the Geroldseck family is said to have been Otto I at the beginning of the 12th century. He had four sons: Dietrich or Truther, Burkhard I., Otto II. And Berthold. Otto II, who continued the Alsatian-Vogesian line, was Vogt von Maursmünster , Sankt-Stefan and Haslach. The Geroldseck am Wasichen or Groß-Geroldseck descend from him. His brothers Dietrich and Burkhard, who moved across the Ortenau to the Rhine, founded the Hohengeroldseck line , which went out in the 17th century. So Konrad belonged to the Hohengeroldseck in Baden.

With Vollmar, the male descendants of the Alsatian Geroldseck went extinct around 1390. Adelheid, sister of Vollmar and wife of Gerhard von Wangen, brought the name Geroldseck to her husband along with part of the estate. The Wangen von Geroldseck family still exists today.

Live and act

Konrad was a canon in the Strasbourg Cathedral when he had a monastery built for regulated canons in Ittenweiler near Sankt Peter in the canton of Barr for the peace of mind of his parents in 1137 .

In 1165 he fulfilled the function of provost and as such was a benefactor of the Abbey of Pairis , which he presented with various goods on May 15, 1168. His foundations demonstrated his religious conduct with integrity, which probably prompted his colleagues to elect him on December 20, 1179 to replace the deposed elect Rudolf von Rothweil as bishop.

During his brief reign, Konrad participated in the foundation of a monastery of Augustinian hermits in Haguenau . These had settled in the Hagenauer Forest since 1153 . Konrad drew them to Hagenau Castle, where a chapel was built in honor of the holy complex. This chapel has completely disappeared since the revolution .

Shortly before his death, Bishop Konrad accompanied the papal legate, the Bishop of Mantua, to the sister monastery of Niedermünster , where the latter undertook the inauguration of the magnificent collegiate church in 1180.

Konrad died on the night of December 17th to 18th, 1180 and was buried on December 20th, 1180 just a year after his election, before he had received episcopal consecration. So he was a bishop select .

literature

• Ludwig Gabriel Glöckler: History of the diocese of Strasbourg. Printed by Le Roux, Strasbourg 1879, 484 pages
• Henry Riegert: Le journal historique de l'Alsace. Editions L'ALSACE, Mulhouse, 1980, tome 1, 4ème édition, 1995, 120 pages.
• Francis Rapp: Le Diocèse de Strasbourg. Editions Beauchesne, January 1, 1982 - 352 pages, "Histoire des diocèses de France" collection, number 14
• Base numérique du patrimoine d'Alsace (BNPA), Histoire de Strasbourg, Center régional et départemental de pédagogie (CRDP).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ernest Lehr: Les dinastes de Geroldseck-ès-Vosges, étude historique et généalogique. Editions J. Noiriel, Strasbourg, 1870: See pedigree
2. ^ Ludwig Gabriel Glöckler: History of the diocese of Strasbourg. Printed by Le Roux, Strasbourg 1879, footnote 1, p. 209
3. ^ ^{A b} Ludwig Gabriel Glöckler: History of the diocese of Strasbourg. Printed by Le Roux, Strasbourg 1879, footnote 1, p. 210

Web links

• The Ottonian Minster Reconstruction computer image