Siegfried II of Querfurt

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Siegfried von Querfurt (* before 1279; † May 5, 1310 ) was from 1279 to 1310 as Siegfried II. Bishop of Hildesheim .

Life

Siegfried came from the Querfurt family . He was the son of Burgrave Burchard IV of Querfurt, founder of the Mansfeld line of the Querfurt tribe, and Countess Sophie von Mansfeld. (→ Master list of Mansfeld )

Siegfried was first dean at Magdeburg Cathedral . On July 18, 1279 he was elected Bishop of Hildesheim.

He had to assert himself against the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . He was a main character in the Herlingsberg War .

On September 5, 1291, he gave the developing Minorite Monastery in Hanover the upper ownership of a piece of land in the old town.

He gave Gronau city ​​rights. He had a castle built in Liebenburg and Ruthe . In Liebenburg this was Liebenburg Castle . In 1302 he bought goods around Westerhof . In 1310 he expanded the sphere of influence of the Hildesheim monastery by buying the county of Dassel .

During his term of office, the efforts of the city of Hildesheim for independence from the diocese of Hildesheim fall .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Minoritenkloster , in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hannover, self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151- 1 ), pp. 215-220
  2. ^ Bishop Siegfried II confirms city rights , PDF, accessed May 24, 2013
predecessor Office successor
Otto I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg Bishop of Hildesheim
1279–1310 		Heinrich II of Woldenberg
personal data
SURNAME Siegfried II of Querfurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Querfurt, Siegfried von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Hildesheim (1279-1310)
DATE OF BIRTH before 1279
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1310