Walram from Naumburg

Walram († April 12, 1111 ) was Bishop of Naumburg from 1091 to 1111 .

Life

The origin of Walrams is unknown. According to Arnold von Quedlinburg, he is said to be a brother of the two Counts Atribo and Sizzo III. have been, which, however, in view of modern scientific verification methodology, in the sense of the hermeneutics of Johann Martin Chladni, cannot be proven. It seems certain that Walram was near Heinrich IV before the beginning of his term of office as Bishop of Naumburg and that before that he was canon in Bamberg .

He seems to have participated in the mediation between the Eastern and Western Churches and was an advisor to the antipope Wibert . In this way he seems to have gained the trust of Henry IV, who appointed him as Bishop of Naumburg in early 1091. After the ordination by Archbishop Hartwig von Spanheim , he was appointed to represent the emperor in the Eastern Church. In 1105, Walram and most of the other German bishops turned away from Heinrich and returned to the papal party of Paschal II when Henry V took over the leadership of the opposition to his father Henry IV. There is evidence that he came into personal contact with Heinrich V in Merseburg in 1108 and accompanied him on his journey to Hungary. The following year he returned to his diocese.

Walram was in correspondence with the then highly respected Anselm of Canterbury and gave him suggestions for his writings. As Bishop of Naumburg, he enfeoffed Wiprecht von Groitzsch with a large number of hooves in the Pleißenland around Borna; In 1109 he added the villages of Nickelsdorf, Dobersdorf, Melasdorf, Kaltdorf Rulisdorf to the Taucha am Rippach monastery and its diocese. Above all, Walram supported the colonization of the Slavic areas.

In 1091 he participated in the laying of the foundation stone of the Pegau monastery , in 1103 allowed the Georgskloster in Naumburg to build moats and a mill and had a burnt-down church built in Altkirchen, southwest of Altenburg. He wrote the works Vita sancti Leonardi confessoris Christi and Miracula sancti Leonhardi , which are kept in the Abdinghof monastery and express his devotion to Saint Leonhard .

literature

• Paul Ewald: Walram von Naumburg, on the history of publicist literature of the XI. Century. Emil Strauss Verlag, Bonn, 1874
• Heinz Wießner: The Diocese of Naumburg 1 - The Diocese 2 . In: Max Planck Institute for History (Ed.): Germania Sacra , NF 35,2, The Dioceses of the Church Province of Magdeburg . Berlin / New York 1998, pp. 751-757. ( Digitized version )
• Gabriel Zeilinger:  Walram, Bishop of Naumburg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 1500-1502.

Web links

• Walramus episcopus Naumburgensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

predecessor	Office	successor
Günther I. von Wettin	Bishop of Naumburg 1091–1111	Dietrich I.