Siegfried (Munster)

Siegfried von Walbeck († November 27, 1032 ) was the 13th Bishop of Münster from 1022 until his death in 1032 . Before that he was abbot of the Berge monastery near Magdeburg from 1009 to 1022 . He was the third son of Count Siegfried von Walbeck and his wife Kunigunde von Stade and thus belonged to the Walbeck Count House . His brother Thietmar von Merseburg was Bishop of Merseburg . His date of birth is not known.

Related to the Billungers through his mother , he enjoyed his upbringing in the Berge monastery near Magdeburg in his childhood. In 1009 he was made abbot there . After the death of his cousin Dietrich I , he succeeded him as Bishop of Munster. During his tenure he was in conflict with the Counts of Werl . In 1027 he took part in the Synod of Frankfurt .

literature

• Gerd Althoff : Noble and royal families in the mirror of their memorial tradition. Studies on the commemoration of the dead of the Billunger and Ottonians (Münster medieval writings; vol. 47). Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7705-2267-2 , p. 336 (also dissertation, University of Freiburg / B. 1981).
• Erich Brandenburg : The descendants of Charlemagne . Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 1998, ISBN 3-7686-5102-9 , plate 3 p. 7 (unchanged reprint of the Leipzig 1935 edition).
• Helmut Lippelt : Thietmar von Merseburg . Böhlau, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-412-83673-7 , p. 48 (also dissertation, University of Göttingen 1966).

predecessor	Office	successor
Dietrich I.	Bishop of Munster 1022-1032	Hermann I.