Siegfried (Paderborn)

Siegfried (also Sifried ) († February 10, 1188 ) was Bishop of Paderborn from 1178/79 to 1188 .

Life

According to some information, he had three roses in his coat of arms, which suggests that he came from the family of the Counts of Hallermund . As a canon in Paderborn he can be proven for the first time in 1153. He appears as a canon in Münster in 1155. There he was a cathedral scholar from 1170 to 1179 . In Paderborn he had been provost of the cathedral since 1160 . He was also provost in Xanten .

He was elected bishop at an advanced age. The fall of Henry the Lion and the smashing of the old duchy of Saxony fall in his time . Siegfried took the side of Henry the Lion's opponents. Pope Lucius III gave the nunnery Willebadessen a protective bull without informing Siegfried and also ignored other episcopal rights. In 1184 Siegfried settled a dispute between the monasteries Heerse and Gehrden . In 1185 Siegfried confirmed the donations made by his last three predecessors to Corvey Abbey . However, he made it clear in his document that he still assigned Corvey to the diocese of Paderborn.

He is buried in the Hardehausen monastery .

literature

• Peter Florens Weddigen (Hrsg.): Paderbornische Geschichte after Schatens Annalen . Lemgo, 1801 pp. 174-181
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the sixteenth century . Vol. 2, Leipzig, 1858, p. 346
• Wilhelm Kohl: The dioceses of the church province Cologne. The diocese of Münster IV, 2. The cathedral monastery of St. Paul in Münster (= Germania sacra NF Bd. 17.2). de Gruyter, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-11-008508-9 , p. 165 ( digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Evergis	Bishop of Paderborn 1178–1188	Bernhard II.