Sigebodo from Stendal

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Sigebodo of Stendal OPraem († 1219 / 20 ) was from 1206/07 1219/20 to Bishop of Havelberg .

Life

Sigebodo was probably the dean of the collegiate monastery in Stendal or the Havelberg cathedral chapter . In 1207 he was commissioned as an elect to investigate the divorce of King Ottokar of Bohemia and his wife Adelheid von Meißen . Pope Innocent III appointed him in 1210 as judge in the dispute between the Halberstadt bishop Friedrich von Kirchberg and the abbess of the Quedlinburg monastery , Sophia von Brehna . Sigebodo took part in the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . In 1209 he stayed at the court of King Otto IV , with whom he documented together in 1215. Shortly afterwards he switched to the Staufer side . In May 1216 he stayed at the court of Frederick II in Würzburg . From 1214 he was active as auxiliary bishop in the dioceses of Mainz and Würzburg . He negotiated with the abbot of the Premonstratensian order to ease the way of life in the Havelberg cathedral chapter. The cathedral library received a manuscript from Ekkehard von Aura from Sigebodo . Sigebodo died in late 1219 or early 1220.

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predecessor Office successor
Helmbert Bishop of Havelberg
1206 / 07–1219 / 1220
Wilhelm