Rüdiger von Bergheim

Rüdiger von Bergheim

Rüdiger von Bergheim (* around 1175; † April 14, 1258 ) was bishop of Chiemsee from 1216 to 1233 and bishop of Passau from 1233 to 1250 .

Life

Rüdiger came from the Salzburg ministerial family of the Bergheimers . From 1198 he was canon of Salzburg; from 1208 to 1211 he is documented as pastor of Salzburghofen , until 1215 as provost of the Augustinian canons of Zell am See and from 1215 as canon of Passau. In 1216 he was appointed the first bishop of the newly founded diocese Chiemsee, which was a suffragan diocese of Salzburg. The consecration was performed by the Salzburg Bishop Eberhard von Regensberg on Herrenchiemsee .

After the Passau bishop's chair was vacant for a year after the resignation of Bishop Gebhard von Plain because the Passau cathedral chapter could not agree on a candidate, Pope Gregory IX transferred. Rüdiger von Bergheim on June 27, 1233 to Passau.

It is not known whether Rüdiger was able to reduce the debts assumed by his predecessor. He soon got into conflict with the Curia because he was on the side of the Staufer in the political disputes . From 1234 to 1235 he supported Emperor Friedrich II. In the fight against his son Heinrich and from 1236 to 1239 against Duke Friedrich II. "The arguable" of Austria. That is why he was excommunicated in 1240 by the papal legate Albert Behaim , who was a declared opponent of Frederick II. Subsequently, the diocese had to accept the loss of Vilshofen and the Ortenburg fiefdom. The Bavarian Duke Otto II "the illustrious" used the opportunity and undertook a foray into the Passau area. After the party loyal to the emperor in the south-east of the empire collapsed in 1245, Rüdiger von Bergheim achieved the lifting of the excommunication. After the Babenbergs died out in 1246, whose efforts for the diocese of Passau he had always rejected, he tried to expand his sovereign position.

Presumably again at Behaim's instigation, Rüdiger von Bergheim was deposed in 1248. The Silesian Duke Konrad II was elected in his place, but the curia refused to confirm him in early 1249. In the same year Pope Innocent IV repeated the excommunication of Rüdiger von Bergheim and demanded his resignation. Since Rüdiger was not ready to take this step, he was excommunicated again on February 17, 1250 by the papal legate Petrus de Collemedio , Cardinal Bishop of Albano , and deposed for the second time. On March 11, 1250, Pope Innocent IV confirmed this approach. Subsequently, Rüdiger von Bergheim was expelled from his diocese. His place of death is not known.

literature

• Egon Boshof:  Rüdiger von Bergheim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 213 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Alois Schmid : Rüdiger von Bergheim (around 1175–1258). In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198–1448. ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , p. 553.