Lothar von Hochstaden

Lothar von Hochstaden († 1194 in Rome ) was Bishop of Liège and Imperial Chancellor .

He came from the family of the Counts of Hochstaden . Lothar von Hochstaden was the brother of the Staufer supporter Dietrich von Ahr-Hochstaden . He was provost of St. Cassius in Bonn and of St. Servatius in Maastricht , and cathedral dean of St. Lambertus in Liège .

After the death of Archbishop Philip of Cologne , the cathedral chapter elected him the new archbishop at the end of 1191 . However, the Counts of Berg forced him to renounce his dignity. Thereupon Bruno von Berg was elected as the new archbishop. In January 1192 Emperor Heinrich VI made him . to his arch-chancellor and to the bishop of Liège , where shortly before there had been a controversial election in which both parties were supported by various Flemish greats. The emperor was possibly pursuing the goal of building a power base on the Lower Rhine.

Baldwin V of Hainaut accepted the survey, but Henry I of Brabant refused Lothar the feudal oath. The originally chosen bishop, Albert von Löwen , a brother of Heinrich von Brabant, received confirmation of his episcopal dignity from the Pope and was consecrated on September 19, 1192 in Reims . Thereupon Heinrich VI supported. Lothar and proceeded against Albert, who was slain by German knights on November 24th outside Reims. Lothar was blamed for Albert's death. Although he swore his innocence in an oath, the Pope excommunicated him and released him from his bishopric. Lothar then traveled to Rome . There he was released from the ban, but had to give up the diocese of Liège . To obtain his complete acquittal, he went back to Rome in 1194, where he died that same year.

The killing of Albert led to the formation of an anti-Staufer opposition in the Lower Rhine region.

literature

Peter Csendes : Heinrich VI. , Primus Verlag Darmstadt 1993. ISBN 3-89678-023-9