Timo (Bamberg)

Timo († October 15 or October 25, 1201 in Bamberg ) was Bishop of Bamberg from 1196 until his death .

biography

Timo came from the von Heroldsbach family.

On August 7, 1196, the cathedral was elected bishop of Bamberg. He was consecrated in the winter of 1196/1197 by Pope Celestine III.

In the dispute for the throne after the death of Henry VI. Timo stood together with the majority of the German princes on the side of the Staufer Philipp of Swabia . He kept this line when Pope Innocent III. already favored the Guelph Otto IV .

In 1201, after the Counts of Abenberg-Frensdorf died out , the bishop vowed not to give up the bailiwick of Bamberg monastery estates that had held since the diocese was founded. Scheinfeld Castle came to the territory of the Bamberg diocese.

Already at the episcopal ordination Timo requested the canonization of Empress Kunigunde , because Pope Celestine III. commissioned the bishops of Augsburg, Eichstätt and Würzburg and three Cistercian abbots to examine the life of the empress. After the death of Coelestin, preparations for the canonization of the empress came to a halt. Only after the bishop's envoy, Pope Innocent III. Having submitted the request again and reported on the numerous miracles and sworn to testify to them, the Pope carried out the canonization on March 29, 1200 . On September 9, 1201 the solemn elevation of Kunigunden's bones took place in the presence of the German King Philip of Swabia (1198–1208) and his wife Irene and other secular and spiritual dignitaries.

Bishop Timo died just a few weeks after Kunigunde was canonized. He is buried together with the Bamberg bishops Eberhard I , Egilbert , Wulfing von Stubenberg and Heinrich II von Sternberg in a stone coffin, which today stands on the south wall of the crypt under the east choir of Bamberg Cathedral .

literature

• Johannes Kist: Prince and Archdiocese of Bamberg. Guide through their history from 1007 to 1960. 3rd, completely redesigned and significantly increased edition. Historischer Verein Bamberg, Bamberg 1962, pp. 43–44.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Georg Thomas Rudhart: The King Konrad III. Graves in the dome of Bamberg . In: Archive for History and Archeology of Upper Franconia , Volume 3, Issue 2, Bayreuth 1846, pp. 101–107, here: p. 106 . Retrieved May 13, 2018.

predecessor	Office	successor
Otto II of Andechs	Bishop of Bamberg 1196–1201	Konrad von Ergersheim