Reginbert von Hagenau

Statue (1760) Reginbert von Hagenau, Engelszell Collegiate Church / Upper Austria

Reginbert von Hagenau (the younger) also called Raimbert († November 10, 1148 ) was provost of the St. Pölten monastery in 1130 and Bishop of Passau in 1138 .

origin

Reginbert came from the family of the Austrian high liberties and Lords of Hagenau . His father was Reimprecht (also Reginbert I.) von Hagenau, the co-founder of Seitenstetten. Reginbert had an older brother Werinhart and a younger one named Hartwig, as well as a younger sister Richarde, who joined the Seitenstetten Family Foundation as a nun. Reginbert is expressly named in documents as one of the family of the Counts of Peylnstein and Playen (Plain), from which a kinship between the Plainer and Hagenauer can be derived.

Life

Reginbert was provost of the St. Pölten Abbey by 1130 at the latest. As provost of St. Pölten, he had his parents' epitaph (the co-founders of Seitenstetten) built in from the family grave of the subsidiary church St. Peter am Anger in Auserkasten in the Stiftskirche Seitenstetten (St. Pölten).

After Bishop Reginmar died on September 30, 1138, Reginbert was elected as his successor as Bishop of Passau. In April or May 1139 he was ordained a priest and bishop by Pope Innocent II . The fact that ordination to the priesthood was necessary at this point suggests that he had only been a deacon until then .

During his administration, he tied his family, especially his brother Hartwig, closely into episcopal politics. In the conflict between the Guelphs and the Hohenstaufen he behaved pro-Hohenstaufen. In 1139 he transferred the provost dignity of the Reichsstift Ranshofen to a candidate of his choice against the will or without the participation of the canons . Reginbert, however, had to grant the convention free canonical election after a mandate from Pope Innocent II, from which Manegold emerged. The years 1139 to 1144 were marked by a dispute with the Reichersberg monastery : Provost Gerhoch raised an objection to Pope Innocent II against the Bishop of Passau's tithe demands. Due to the resolutions of the Synod of Pisa in 1135, according to which clergymen who manage goods by their own hands and with their own means were not obliged to pay tithes, the Pope forbade Reginbert's demands. He ignored the mandate three times. It was only when Pope Lucius II took more energetic steps that Reginbert gave in and thus presumably avoided his excommunication . In 1140 Reginbert took part in the Frankfurt Reichstag. He owes the establishment of a hospital and around 1143 also the construction of the first Inn bridge with the fortified gate at the residence in Passau. The St. Nikola Abbey was compensated for the failure of the ferry fee through a donation from the church in Hartkirchen. The monasteries Zwettl , Baumgartenberg , Suben , Altenburg and Waldhausen were founded under Reginbert's leadership . In 1146 he appointed his brother Hartwig as Vogt of the hospital in Vöcklabruck.

As a loyal follower of the Hohenstaufen he accompanied Konrad III. on the Second Crusade . He set out with his contingent in 1147 to join Conrad's army in Regensburg. On the way there, Reginbert consecrated St. Stephen's Church in Vienna, the predecessor of St. Stephen's Cathedral (patronage after the mother church in Passau). On the return journey from Palestine through the Byzantine Empire, he fell ill and died there on November 10, 1148.

Reginbert had previously convinced his childless brother Hartwig von Hagenau before he went on the Second Crusade with him to make a will in favor of the Passau diocese. In fact, Hartwig was also killed on the crusade and a dispute over Hartwig's property between the third brother Werinhardt von Hagenau with his sons and Hartwig's widow was the result. The Archdiocese of Passau also registered its claims. Duke Heinrich II held a court day and decided in favor of the now Bishop Konrad I of Passau, who received the fiefdom of Hagenau near Braunau in 1150. Hartwig's brother and his sons were compensated.

literature

• Academy of Sciences in Vienna (Ed.): Archive for Austrian History, Volume 1. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1848.
• Anton Landersdorfer:  Reginbert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 265 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Victor Schmid: History of the Diocese of Passau. Verlag Friedrich A. Perthes, Gotha 1858.
• Wolfram Ziegler: King Konrad III. (1138-1152). Court, documents and politics. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77647-5 , pp. 246-253.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Ziegler, p. 246 f.
2. ↑ See Schmid, p. 7