Pilgrim I of Salzburg

Pilgrim I († October 8, 923 ), probably from the noble family of the Pilgrimids or Aribones , was an Archbishop of Salzburg and abbot of St. Peter's Abbey in the 10th century.

Life

Pilgrim's reign began under difficult conditions. While his predecessors were all appointed arch chaplain of the king or emperor when they took office as bishops , another bishop didn't become arch chaplain and pilgrim until 912.

The Archbishop's situation made the repeated expulsion of the Bavarian Duke Arnulf I particularly difficult. In 914 he had opposed the election of the twenty-four-year-old Konrad I as king (who then took Arnulf's mother as his wife) in 914 and was then expelled from Bavaria. On his first return in 916, Arnulf was bloodily beaten and only after another escape from Salzburg in 917/18 could he gradually assert himself as the Bavarian ruler. In the last battle with King Konrad, Arnulf was victorious, Konrad was seriously wounded and died as a result of the injury. His successor was the Saxon Duke Heinrich I , who was only able to assert himself in Bavaria in 921, where Arnulf had meanwhile usurped rights equal to the king.

Pilgrim I, who had taken a cautiously loyal attitude towards Arnulf, could only be active to a limited extent and only within his narrower domain. The power of the Salzburg archbishops, with their wide sphere of activity in Pannonia, was shattered, the archbishops were no longer appointed by the king, but exclusively by the Bavarian duke. For a long time, the history of Salzburg became a small, insignificant part of Bavarian history. The probably very numerous Pilgrims barter deals are known, which mainly concerned church property in the area of ​​today's Bavaria. Above all, Pilgrim wanted to make his territory more closed. In 909, for example, Pilgrim received the Traunsee Abbey (presumably in what is now Altmünster ) for life from King Ludwig the Child , and the Salzburg Church received the royal court Salzburghofen (today Freilassing ) from the king along with the associated taxes from Reichenhall .

literature

• Heinz Dopsch , Hans Spatzenegger (Hrsg.): History of Salzburg, city and country; Pustet , Salzburg 1988; ISBN 3-7025-0243-2
• Heinz Dopsch:  Pilgrim I .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 441 f. ( Digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Theotmar	Archbishop of Salzburg 907–923	Adalbert II.