Reinboto von Meilenhart

Reinboto von Meilenhart († August 27, 1297, probably in Eichstätt ) was Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt from 1279 to 1297.

Life

Reinboto came from the family von Meilenhart . The main seat of the castle was named Burg Meilenhart near Daiting , today a municipality in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries . The family were Ministeriale of the Counts of Graisbach . Reinboto von Meilenhart was Eichstatter canon from 1270 . He had close ties to the Archdiocese of Mainz and was repeatedly commissioned by the Pope to negotiate. He succeeded in rounding off the territory of the bishopric primarily through further purchases, but tried to sell more distant property. The prospect of a considerable expansion of the Eichstätter area resulted from the possible extensive inheritance of the last counts of Hirschberg . The succession occurred under Reinboto's successor, Konrad II von Pfeffenhausen , and its effects also occupied the subsequent archbishops.

Reinboto was buried in the Willibald choir of Eichstätter Dom ; a grave slab has not been preserved.

literature

• Alfred Wendehorst : The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume 1: The series of bishops until 1535 (= Germania sacra. The Church of the Old Kingdom and its institutions. New series 45.). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-11-018971-2 , pp. 114-123.
• Alfred Wendehorst:  Reinboto von Meilenhart. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 344 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• The bishop on the Daiting parish homepage
• The bishop and St. Willibald at the HdBG
• The bishop in the history of Eichstätt

predecessor	Office	successor
Hildebrand of Carrots	Bishop of Eichstätt 1279–1297	Konrad II of Pfeffenhausen