Konrad von Krosigk

Konrad von Krosigk († around June 21, 1225 in the Sittichenbach Monastery ) was Bishop of Halberstadt from 1201 to 1209 . The basic inventory of the Halberstadt cathedral treasure goes back to him .

Life

He was the son of Dedos II von Krosigk . The Quedlinburg abbess Bertradis I von Krosigk was his sister.

In 1201 he became provost of the cathedral in Halberstadt and in the same year, after the death of Bishop Berthold, elected his successor as Bishop of Halberstadt. As a bishop, he made himself a loyal supporter of the Hohenstaufen and partisans of the anti-king Philip of Swabia with Pope Innocent III. unpopular and pulled the excommunication on himself. To break the spell, he committed himself to a pilgrimage to the Holy Land .

Konrad joined the army of the Fourth Crusade in Venice , which had declared Jerusalem as an official destination, but instead sailed to Constantinople via the Croatian city of Zadar . The Byzantine capital was conquered and plundered by the crusaders and Konrad was also able to secure valuable items from the booty . Then he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he stayed for some time in Tire and consecrated the Bishop of Sidon , among other things . On the return trip he went to see the Pope, who in June 1205 lifted the excommunication from him. When he then returned to his bishopric in Halberstadt, he had numerous important relics and treasures in his luggage. The day of his arrival in Halberstadt on August 16, 1205, the “arrival of the relics” was celebrated annually. In a documentary donation he bequeathed the Halberstadt Cathedral relics of the Twelve Apostles , sliver of St. Cross and a precious Byzantine host bowl from the 11th century.

In 1209 he resigned his bishopric and entered the Sittichenbach monastery . In 1213 he appeared as papal commissioner who was preparing the Damiette crusade in the Magdeburg and Bremen church provinces . For the Naumburg bishop Engelhard , when he had started the crusade, he joined Naumburg as auxiliary bishop and held a synod in Naumburg in 1216. He died in Sittichenbach Abbey in 1225, the place of his burial is unknown.

literature

• Raphaela Averkorn: The bishops of Halberstadt in their ecclesiastical and political work and in their relationship to the city from the beginnings to the Reformation . In: Citizens, mendicants and bishops in Halberstadt. Studies on the history of the city, the mendicants and the diocese from the Middle Ages to the early modern period . Werl 1997.
• Heinz Wießner: The Diocese of Naumburg 1 - The Diocese 2 . In: Max Planck Institute for History (Ed.): Germania Sacra , NF 35,2, The Dioceses of the Church Province of Magdeburg . Berlin / New York 1998. pp. 1006f.

Web links

• Krosigk, Conrad von. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 15, Leipzig 1737, column 1982-1984.

predecessor	Office	successor
Berthold von Harbke	Bishop of Halberstadt 1201–1209	Friedrich II of Kirchberg