Konrad von Querfurt († 1142)

Konrad von Querfurt (* around 1100 ; † May 2, 1142 in Magdeburg ) from the noble free family of Querfurt was Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1134 to 1142 .

Life

Konrad was the younger son of Count Gebhard II of Querfurt and Oda von Ammensleben, daughter of Dietrich Graf von Ammensleben . He was determined to pursue a spiritual career at an early age and became a canon in Magdeburg . Since he only had the subdeacon ordination in 1125 , there was resistance to his appointment as Archbishop of Magdeburg after the cathedral chapter had elected him with a majority. Only after the death of Archbishop Norbert von Xanten , who was appointed by a court in Speyer in 1126 , was Konrad re-elected by his chapter on June 29, 1134 and became - now without contradiction - Archbishop of Magdeburg.

He entered the imperial service, stood at the side of the emperor Lothar III. and took an active part in the expansion of the German Empire to the east . With Albrecht the Bear he campaigned for a lowering of the Elbe tariffs for Magdeburg merchants and took part in the emperor's campaign against Italy in 1136/1137.

Archbishop Konrad began to mint the first bracteates of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg around 1138 .

After the death of Emperor Lothar, he took the side of Heinrich the Proud and was thus an opponent of the Staufer Konrad III. As a result, he fell out with Albrecht the Bear and the Counts of Plötzkau , which ended in a military conflict. During this conflict, Bernburg and Plötzkau were destroyed. After the death of the last Count von Groitzsch in 1136, Konrad transferred the Magdeburg burgrave office and the associated bailiwick to his brother Burchard .

The burgraves from the Querfurt house now made a rapid rise and developed special activities in the imperial service of the Hohenstaufen emperors. Above all, the Neuwerk monasteries near Halle (Saale) , Gottesgnaden and Ammersleben were supported by him with gifts and privileges. He disrupted the development of the diocese of Brandenburg by insisting on the Magdeburg tithe . Konrad von Querfurt was buried in Magdeburg Cathedral .

literature

• Erich Brandenburg: The descendants of Charlemagne. Verlag Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 1998, plate 12, pp. 25, 146
• Dietrich Claude : History of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg up to the 12th century . Volume 2. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne et al. 1975, pp. 39-53
• Lutz Fenske: Nobility opposition and church reform movement in eastern Saxony . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977, p. 226 A. 24, 227, 240, 298, 305, 318, 322
• Karl Janicke:  Konrad I, Archbishop of Magdeburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 590 f.
• Lutz Partenheimer : Albrecht the Bear. Founder of the Mark Brandenburg and the Principality of Anhalt . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne et al. 2001, pp. 53, 57, 61, 69-71, 73-75, 78, 84, 86, 89-91, 113, 235-237, 240, 247-249, 251, 256, 262 , 265, 270, 324
• Stefan Pätzold: The early Wettins. Noble family and house tradition until 1221 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 1997, pp. 107, 188
• Berent Schwineköper :  Konrad von Magdeburg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 509 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables for European history , Volume I, Part 1. RG Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, Plate 157

predecessor	Office	successor
Norbert von Xanten	Archbishop of Magdeburg 1134–1142	Friedrich I of Wettin