Conrad IV of Frontenhausen

Konrad IV von Frontenhausen and Teisbach , also Konrad von Lechsgemünd (* around 1170 ; † April 8/9 , 1226 in Regensburg ) was Bishop of Regensburg from 1204 to 1226 and from 1205 Chancellor of King Philip of Swabia .

He was significant in two ways: As a politician, he was one of the main actors in the struggle for Regensburg city rule at the end of the 12th and first half of the 13th century. As a pastor he was one of the most important supporters of the hospital system in the history of Regensburg.

Konrad was the only son of the count couple Heinrich II. And Adelheid von Frontenhausen , Teisbach and Megling , whose main estates were on the middle Vils in Lower Bavaria . Starting his spiritual career, Konrad became a canon in Passau , provost in Freising and canon in Regensburg, before he succeeded Konrad III in April 1204 . von Laichling , was elected the Regensburg Shepherd.

Bishop Conrad IV was the first to settle the conflict with the Bavarian Duke Ludwig dem Kelheimer (1183–1231), who was born as a Regensburg burgrave over the legacy of the Landgraves von Stefling am Regen, who died out in 1196 . A feud that broke out in 1203 was ended in 1205 by a peace treaty that defined the future areas of influence. Duke Ludwig received the burgraviate alone, all other responsibilities in Regensburg were divided between the duke and the bishop, so that the city now had two masters. The confirmation of this double leadership by the so-called "Philippinum" of the German King Philip of Swabia on March 9, 1207, both opponents felt strengthened. However, as the king's chancellor (from 1205), Bishop Konrad had an uncomfortable double function: as guardian of the royal position and of his own in Regensburg.

The unbroken position of Duke Ludwig was proven by the holding of a state parliament for Bavaria in Regensburg in 1209. Other measures taken by the Duke in 1210 were the settlement of the Teutonic Order in the old Burggrafenpfalz on Aegidienplatz, the promotion of a town hall building by the citizens and the expansion of his own ducal court on the Alter Kornmarkt , perhaps also the construction of the Ulrichskirche at the cathedral as a ducal court church.

On the other hand, Bishop Konrad IV devoted himself to social policy during these years - whether as a person of the Middle Ages concerned with his soul or to get the citizens of Regensburg to his side. In any case, around 1212/14 he worked with the citizens to move the too small Johannesspital am Dom and the bridge hospital to Stadtamhof and donated the large sum of 7,000 pfennigs from his own fortune in 1220/21. In 1217 he confirmed the ownership of what is now the Katharinenspital and in 1226 issued the hospital statutes that are still valid today. Until it was destroyed in 1809, a life-size statue on the central pillar of the hospital portal showed Bishop Conrad IV as the benefactor.

On the Regensburg court day of the new German King Friedrich II. In February 1213, Bishop Konrad regained ground with the renewal of the treaty on divided city rule between the duke and the bishop. The climax of the episcopal power in Regensburg was the year 1219, in which King Friedrich II confirmed Bishop Konrad the unrestricted rule of the city.

In the spiritual field, Conrad IV paved the way for the settlement of the first mendicant order in the city by letting the Salvator Chapel on today's Dachauplatz to Franciscan Minorites .

Bishop Conrad IV of Regensburg died on April 8, 1226 and was buried in the Katharinenkapelle of the Romanesque cathedral.

literature

• Michael Buchberger (Ed.): 1200 years of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1939. pp. 33-35.
• Karl Hausberger : Konrad von Frontenhausen: († 1226), 1204–1226 Bishop of Regensburg. In: Erwin Gatz (ed.), With the assistance of Clemens Brodkorb: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448. A biographical encyclopedia. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , pp. 622f
• Ferdinand Janner: History of the bishops of Regensburg. Vol. 2. Regensburg [u. a.]: Pustet 1884, pp. 234-329.
• Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966. pp. 37-42.

predecessor	Office	successor
Conrad III. of Laichling	Bishop of Regensburg 1204–1226	Siegfried