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Roman von Leibnitz († August 17, 1179 ) was Roman II. Bishop of Gurk from 1174 to 1179.

Life

Roman von Leibnitz was a relative of the former Gurk Bishop Roman I and came from a Salzburg ministerial family. From 1149 he was provost of the cathedral in Gurk and was entrusted with important diplomatic missions. So he traveled to Pope Alexander III. to France to deliver the pallium for the newly elected Archbishop of Salzburg, Konrad II .

On October 3, 1174 he was elected bishop of Gurk by the clergy and people. Although he was not chosen by the Archbishop of Salzburg, he received confirmation from Pope Alexander III in 1176. and was also entrusted with the office of Vicar General of Salzburg. In 1174 Roman was consecrated by the Patriarch of Aquileia.

Under the reign of Roman II., On July 24, 1177, peace was concluded between the Pope and the Emperor in Venice, which ended the long schism. Bishop Roman was also present for this solemn act in St. Mark's Basilica . The peace treaty restored the old legal status between Gurk and Salzburg, whereby the Gurk bishop was no longer to receive his regalia from the emperor but from the archbishop and therefore no longer had an imperial position, but came back into a feudal relationship with Salzburg.

In 1178 Archbishop Konrad von Salzburg traveled again to the Emperor in Italy to have the concession deed of the Pope and King Heinrich IV from 1072 confirmed on June 14th, thus once again declaring Gurk's submission to Salzburg.

After this further disappointment, the bishop made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On the way there he died on August 17, 1179. His body was probably brought back to Gurk and buried in the cathedral. During excavation work in 1952, fragments of a tombstone that may have belonged to Bishop Roman's tomb were found.

literature

• Jakob Obersteiner: The bishops of Gurk. 1072–1822 (= From Research and Art. 5, ISSN  0067-0642 ). Verlag des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1969, pp. 54–58.