Reginbert von Brixen

Allegory (around 1700): Reginbert (right) and Heinrich IV. At the foot of the Georgenberg.

Reginbert (died November 13, 1140 ) was Bishop of Brixen from 1125 to 1139 . He had previously been a monk in Admont and then prior , and from 1116 to 1125 Abbot of St. Peter in Salzburg. Nothing more is known about its origin.

Life

As an advocate of the Hirsau reform , he gained the favor of Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg , to whom he owed the elevation to bishopric: After Konrad obtained permission from Rome in 1124 following the Worms Concordat and on August 24, 1125 its equally necessary electoral confirmation had received to depose Hugo (who had taken the imperial side during the investiture controversy) as Bishop of Brixen, nothing stood in the way of Reginbert's ordination.

However, the schismatically elected Hugo was able to hold out for some time, so that Reginbert was only able to take office in Brixen late: His presence in Salzburg is documented as late as 1127, where he worked as bishop-designate in exile and only with the change of the throne from Emperor Lothar on Konrad III. could take possession of his diocese in April 1138. In contrast to his two anti-papal predecessors Altwin (1049-1097) and Hugo (1100-1125), he worked hard to reform the clergy . He traveled to Rome (also because there had been a complaint against him at the Curia ) and, thanks to a letter of recommendation issued by Archbishop Konrad, was welcomed benevolently by Pope Innocent II . On this occasion, his two founding monasteries, the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wilten and the Benedictine Abbey of St. Georgenberg , were confirmed by the Pope.

Remarks

1. ↑ NDB. See also the Fiecht museum catalog, p. 26: "... recent research confirms the [this] day of death" [despite three different sources cited].
2. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 274 .
3. ↑ See also the Fiecht museum catalog, p. 27: Sparber describes both as "episcopal monasteries ": Like Konrad, Reginbert tried to bring monasteries under the jurisdiction of the respective diocesan bishop.
   And: "... at that time prefabricated privilege texts were submitted according to samples ..." (which, as Sparber further suspects, due to a mistake by the papal chancellery, the Premonstratensians and Benedictines received the same privilege on April 30, 1138 ; others spoke of Wiltens' case Forgery of documents (literature: Steinegger) ).

literature

• Thomas Naupp, Gert-Klaus Pinggera: Stiftsmuseum Fiecht, documents on the history of St. Georgenberg-Fiecht (catalog, no year, but shortly after 1988)
• Anselm Sparber: The Brixen Prince-Bishops in the Middle Ages. Bolzano 1968
• Josef Gelmi : Church history of Tyrol. Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 1986
• Fritz Steinegger: The forged documents of Bishop Reginbert von Brixen for the Wilten monastery. In: Publications of the Innsbruck City Archives 10, Innsbruck 1956
• Josef Riedmann:  Reginbert, Bishop of Brixen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 264 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Anselm Sparber OSA:  Hartmann, Bishop of Brixen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 725 ( digitized version ). (there side entry)
• Ekkart Sauser:  Reginbert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 1482-1483.