Leo Thundorfer

Leo Thundorfer , also Tundorfer and Leo von Tundorf (* around 1225 ; † July 12 or 13, 1277 in Vienna ) was the 30th Bishop of Regensburg and Prince-Bishop of Regensburg from 1262 to 1277.

Leo came from the Regensburg patrician family of Thundorfer. After his studies he was canon in Regensburg and Passau. After his predecessor Albertus Magnus voluntarily renounced the bishopric, he was unanimously elected as the new bishop by the cathedral chapter. In imperial politics he appeared more as a mediator in the armed conflicts with the Hungarians and Bohemians and was involved in various peace negotiations.

Leo made an offensive effort to establish closer ties between the monasteries and the Hochstift. He gave the Sankt Emmeram monastery a say in the appointment of abbots and the administration of property and hospitality costs. The monastery tried to defend itself against this appropriation and made up for a large amount of taxes that had not been paid for a long time to the Pope in order to be able to document its independence from the bishopric. In the course of the conflict between the bishop and the pope, Leo Thundorfer was excommunicated. He was involved in the removal of Abbot Haimo and the appointment of his close friend Wolfgang I. Sturm.

He promoted the construction of the Regensburg Cathedral considerably and was buried there as well. His body was specially transferred from Vienna.

literature

• Michael Buchberger (Ed.): 1200 years of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1939. p. 38.
• Paul Mai:  Leo Tundorfer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 239 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966, pp. 53-58.

predecessor	Office	successor
Albertus Magnus	Bishop of Regensburg 1262–1277	Heinrich II of Rotteneck