Liemar

Liemar († May 16, 1101 in Bremen ) was Archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg from 1072 to 1101.

Liemar came from a Bavarian ministerial family. At Pentecost 1072, King Henry IV appointed Liemar to succeed Archbishop Adalbert, who had died two months earlier . The pallium was given to him by Pope Alexander II.

Like his predecessor Adalbert, Liemar pursued a policy based on the interests of the Reich. During the investiture controversy , he stood at the side of Emperor Henry IV, for which he was deposed and excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII . During his imperial service, Liemar crossed the Alps six times and took part with Henry IV on the trip to Canossa .

During his tenure as Archbishop he had the Bremen cathedral district fortified with a vallo firmissimo ('strong wall'), but due to his rare presence the territorial development of the monastery suffered as a whole - so he was only 11 years in Bremen in the 29 years of his tenure, only two years during the first 13 years of his tenure. In 1088, Liemar fell into the hands of Ekbert von Meissen during an attack on the emperor's camp near Gleichen Castle . He could only buy his way out by paying 300 silver marks and letting the Bremen monastery bailiff. The Stiftsvogtei then came into the hands of the Counts of Stade , the Saxon opponents of the Archdiocese. Liemar could not prevent the establishment of the Archdiocese of Lund in 1104, against which Adalbert had consistently resisted before. The Scandinavian mission area had thus made itself independent of Bremen.

The chronicler Adam von Bremen dedicated his Hamburg church history to Archbishop Liemar.

literature

Wilhelm von Bippen : Liemar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 628-631.
Günter Glaeske: Liemar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 527 f. ( Digitized version ).
Herbert Schwarzwälder : The bishops and archbishops of Bremen, their origin and term of office - their death and their graves. In: The graves in the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen. Sheets of the "Mouse", Society for Family Research eV, Bremen, Issue 16 December 1996, No. 17 Liemar 1072–1101.

Web links

genealogie-mittelalter.de

Individual evidence

^ Otto Heinrich May: Regesten of the Archbishops of Bremen . Ed .: Historical Commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen. tape 1 , no. 787-1306 . Arthur Geist Verlag, Hanover 1937, p. 1 .
↑ Thomas L. Zotz, Lutz Fenske: Die Deutschen Königspfalzen: Repertorium der Pfalzen, Königshöfe and other whereabouts of the kings in the German empire of the Middle Ages . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 4 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-36513-6 , pp. 188 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Adalbert	Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen 1072–1101	Humbert

personal data
SURNAME	Liemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 1101
Place of death	Bremen

[1] Otto Heinrich May: Regesten of the Archbishops of Bremen . Ed .: Historical Commission for Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Bremen. tape 1 , no. 787-1306 . Arthur Geist Verlag, Hanover 1937, p. 1 .

[Die_Deutschen_Königspfalzen-2] Thomas L. Zotz, Lutz Fenske: Die Deutschen Königspfalzen: Repertorium der Pfalzen, Königshöfe and other whereabouts of the kings in the German empire of the Middle Ages . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 4 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-36513-6 , pp. 188 .