Siegfried II. (Brandenburg)

The seal of the Brandenburg bishop Siegfried II from December 28, 1216. Lettering: SIFRIDVS D (E) I GRA (CIA) BRANDEBVRG (E) NSIS EP (IS) C (OPVS). The omissions are added in brackets.

Siegfried II. († 1220 or later) was Bishop of Brandenburg from 1216/17 to 1220 .

Life

Provost of Brandenburg

Its origin is unknown. Between 1211 and 1214 he was Provost of Brandenburg . Before December 28, 1216 Siegfried was elected and consecrated as the new Bishop of Brandenburg. He was succeeded as provost by his brother Alverich .

Bishop of Brandenburg

The first document received from Siegfried dated December 28, 1216 confirmed the Brandenburg Cathedral Chapter's rights and possessions. Several places in Brandenburg were named for the first time. In 1220 Siegfried confirmed a donation from the knight Daniel von Mukede in a document . It is not entirely clear whether Siegfried or his successor was sent to the Ilsenburg monastery as papal executor .

Siegfried was last mentioned on September 30, 1220, the date of his death is unknown.

Succession

After Siegfried's death, Ludolf von Schwanebeck was elected the new bishop of the Brandenburg Cathedral Chapter and Wichmann von Arnstein of the Leitkau Monastery . However, neither received any papal confirmation, so that in 1222 Gernand von Brandenburg became the new Bishop of Brandenburg.

literature

Gustav Abb , Gottfried Wentz (arrangement): The Diocese of Brandenburg. Part 1. (= Germania sacra . I. Department: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Magdeburg. 3). Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin and Leipzig 1929. p. 29. ( PDF )
Erwin Gatz (ed.), With the assistance of Clemens Brodkorb: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 .

Individual evidence

↑ The first document is dated December 28, 1216, but the Brandenburg bishop's chronicle states that Siegfried was elected on May 31, 1217 after the death of his predecessor. Lastly, on the problem, Christina Meckelnborg : Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg. The oldest evidence of Brandenburg history. Text analysis and edition. (= Writings of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg, New Series Vol. 7). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86732-215-7 . P. 58
↑ Lutz Partenheimer : Bishop Siegfried II of Brandenburg (end of 1216-1220 / 21) confirms the rights and possessions of the Brandenburg cathedral chapter , December 28, 1216. In: Announcements of the Uckermärkisches Geschichtsverein zu Prenzlau 20/2013. Pp. 14-37.
↑ He transferred four Hufen land in the village of Hohenferchesar to the Brandenburg Cathedral Hospital . Daniel decided that after his death ten shillings of the donation should go to the cathedral chapter to celebrate his memory. However, he wrote down lifelong usufruct for himself and his wife . In: Adolf Friedrich Riedel (Ed.): Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . Collection of documents, chronicles and other sources for the history of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and its regents, Volume 8, FH Morin, Berlin 1847, p. 45, p. 131 ff.

↑ The chronicle of, Lauterberg does not name a year, around 1224 (?), Cf. Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in folio) 23: Chronica aevi Suevici. Hanover 1874 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ) p. 217

↑ On the duration of his term of office in the Brandenburg bishop's chronicle cf. Christina Meckelnborg : Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg. The oldest evidence of Brandenburg history. Text analysis and edition. (= Writings of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg, New Series Vol. 7). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86732-215-7 . Pp. 218-220

predecessor	Office	successor
Baldwin	Bishop of Brandenburg 1216-1220	Gernand of Brandenburg

personal data
SURNAME	Siegfried II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1220

[1] The first document is dated December 28, 1216, but the Brandenburg bishop's chronicle states that Siegfried was elected on May 31, 1217 after the death of his predecessor. Lastly, on the problem, Christina Meckelnborg : Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg. The oldest evidence of Brandenburg history. Text analysis and edition. (= Writings of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg, New Series Vol. 7). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86732-215-7 . P. 58

[2] Lutz Partenheimer : Bishop Siegfried II of Brandenburg (end of 1216-1220 / 21) confirms the rights and possessions of the Brandenburg cathedral chapter , December 28, 1216. In: Announcements of the Uckermärkisches Geschichtsverein zu Prenzlau 20/2013. Pp. 14-37.

[3] He transferred four Hufen land in the village of Hohenferchesar to the Brandenburg Cathedral Hospital . Daniel decided that after his death ten shillings of the donation should go to the cathedral chapter to celebrate his memory. However, he wrote down lifelong usufruct for himself and his wife . In: Adolf Friedrich Riedel (Ed.): Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . Collection of documents, chronicles and other sources for the history of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and its regents, Volume 8, FH Morin, Berlin 1847, p. 45, p. 131 ff.

[4] The chronicle of, Lauterberg does not name a year, around 1224 (?), Cf. Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in folio) 23: Chronica aevi Suevici. Hanover 1874 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ) p. 217

[5] On the duration of his term of office in the Brandenburg bishop's chronicle cf. Christina Meckelnborg : Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg. The oldest evidence of Brandenburg history. Text analysis and edition. (= Writings of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg, New Series Vol. 7). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86732-215-7 . Pp. 218-220