Konrad I of Velber
Konrad von Velber , called Konrad I († December 30, 1238 in Osnabrück ) was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück from 1227 to 1238 .
The noble lords of Velber were a side branch of the Counts of Lauenrode , who named themselves after the village of Velber (today a district of Seelze ) west of Hanover .
Konrad had two brothers named Helmold and Heinrich and a sister, of whom only the initial "B." has survived.
Brother Helmold, who, like Konrad, lives as a clergyman in Osnabrück, bequeathed a curie in Velber (presumably the former ancestral seat of the family) to the Marienwerder monastery in 1257 . Brother Heinrich marries a noble von Diepholz, but apparently dies early after a childless marriage. Sister B. was a canon at Gandersheim Abbey .
Konrad was canon in Hildesheim in 1213 and head of the cathedral school there in 1221. In 1227 he was elected Bishop of Osnabrück. The town of Quakenbrück was built during this period , where he founded a collegiate foundation dedicated to the Virgin Mary in 1235. The founding of this chapter by a corporation of clergymen who lived according to Augustinian rules was an act of planned church policy, which was accompanied by military interests, since the border area around Quakenbrück was about sovereignty. It was probably the intention of the bishop to train Quakenbrück as the northernmost bulwark of his diocese against the Counts of Tecklenburg , Ravensberg and Oldenburg . Long-term battles with Count Otto von Tecklenburg , in the course of which an alliance between the bishop and the archbishopric of Cologne aimed at the common division of the hostile land came about, were settled in 1236 through the mediation of Bishop Ludolf von Münster . The transfer of the bailiwick over the city of Osnabrück and the goods of the bishop and the cathedral chapter formed the main gain for the church.
literature
- Richard Doebner: Konrad I., Bishop of Osnabrück . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 602.
- Justus Möser : Osnabrück History. ed. v. Abeken, Thl. 11, pp. 79-134
- Heinz Georg Röhrbein: About the noble lords of Velber in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 1986, vol. 40 (1986), pp. 25–31
- Wolfgang Seegrün : Konrad I. von Velber. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 519 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Rothert: The settlement of the district of Bersenbrück. A contribution to the settlement history of north-west Germany.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Konrad I of Velber |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1238 |
| Place of death | Osnabrück |