Conrad III. from Scharfenberg

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Konrad von Scharfenberg , French Conrad de Scharfenberg (* around 1165; † March 24, 1224 in Speyer ), was Bishop of Speyer and Metz and Chancellor of the Roman-German Empire . He came from a south-west German ministerial family from the area of ​​the Reichsburg Trifels in the southern Palatinate . His family's ancestral home was Scharfenberg Castle , which is adjacent to Trifels and where he was probably born.

Life

Youth and career start

Konrad was educated and trained at the cathedral school in Speyer . In 1187 he entered the royal service when Friedrich Barbarossa was emperor of the empire. Overall, Konrad served two emperors and kings in the imperial chancellery and made a career in both secular and spiritual fields.

At first Konrad was provost of the St. German monastery in Speyer , in 1198 he became dean of the cathedral chapter there . During the throne dispute between Staufers and Welfen , which after the early death of Emperor Heinrich VI. broke out, he was a supporter of the Staufer Philip of Swabia .

Bishop of Speyer and Chancellor

In 1200 Konrad became Bishop of Speyer and imperial canon. In 1208 he was appointed chancellor by King Philip. He was present next to the stewardess and the chamberlain in the royal room in Bamberg when Otto VIII von Wittelsbach murdered King Philip. After Philip's murder - which was not related to the controversy for the throne - Konrad administered the imperial insignia and brought them from Bamberg to the Trifels imperial castle.

Soon afterwards, when Philip's Guelph opponent was generally recognized as King Otto IV , Konrad also placed himself in his service and accompanied him to Rome in 1209 for the coronation by Pope Innocent III.

Bishop of Metz

In 1212, Conrad was elected Bishop of Metz in competition with Guillaume de Joinville , who as Bishop of Langres was the preferred candidate of the French King Philip II .

In 1220 Konrad accompanied the Hohenstaufen King Friedrich II to Rome for the imperial coronation by Pope Honorius III. On this trip he got to know the new religious orders of the Dominicans and Franciscans in Italy and paved the way for them to Germany. Thus, in cooperation with Konrad and the first German Franciscan Provincial, Caesarius von Speyer, one of the earliest Franciscan convents in Germany, the Franciscan Monastery of Speyer, came into being .

Last years

In the last four years of his life, Konrad took the cathedral cantor Beringer von Entringen as coadjutor and dedicated himself exclusively to his two dioceses , above all to the diocese of Speyer and its imperial cathedral . In this he had the bones of Philip of Swabia buried. He also suggested the renovation of the cathedral there in the diocese of Metz .

Konrad found his final resting place next to King Philip of Swabia in Speyer Cathedral.

coat of arms

The prince-bishop's coat of arms is usually quartered . The fields of the coat of arms alternate with the family coat of arms of the von Scharfenberg family, a crowned, striding lion in silver on a red background, and the coat of arms of the diocese of Speyer, a silver cross on a blue background.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Martin Schaller :  Konrad v. Scharfenberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 528 ( digitized version ).
predecessor Office successor
Otto von Henneberg Bishop of Speyer
1200–1224 		Ringers of Entringen
Bertram Bishop of Metz
1212–1224 		Johann I of Apremont
personal data
SURNAME Scharfenberg, Konrad III. from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scharfenberg, Conrad de; Konrad I of Metz; Conrad III. from Speyer; Conrad III. Edler von Scharfeneck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, Bishop of Speyer and Metz
DATE OF BIRTH around 1165
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Scharfenberg Castle (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1224
Place of death Speyer