Walther von Rötteln

Walther von Rötteln (* before 1180 ; † 11. February 1231 / 32 ) was from 1213 to 1215 Bishop of Basel .

Live and act

Walther comes from the noble family of the Lords of Rötteln, who lived in the Basel area . His father was Dietrich III. von Rötteln, his brother, Lüthold II von Rötteln , was bishop of Basel from 1238 to 1248, his uncle, Konrad II of Tegerfelden , from 1209 to 1233 bishop of Constance .

Walther was canon in Basel and from 1209 in Constance . From 1211 to 1214 he was provost of the cathedral in Constance and was elected Bishop of Basel before September 1, 1213. In 1215, at the request of the cathedral chapter of Pope Innocent III. the diocese withdrawn again, presumably because of wasting the episcopal goods. Walther returned to the Konstanz cathedral chapter and was cathedral scholaster from 1221 to 1230 and archdeacon of Burgundy in 1223 .

literature

• Thomas Zotz : Three gentlemen from Rötteln on the Basel bishop's chair in the 13th and early 14th centuries . In: In: Ralf Wagner et al. (Editor), State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg (Editor): Burg Rötteln: Rule between Basel and France . JS Klotz publishing house. Neulingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-948424-60-2 , pp. 105-115
• Markus Ries: Walther von Röteln . In: Erwin Gatz (ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , pp. 59 .
• Otto Konrad Roller: The history of the noble lords of Rötteln. (= Sheets from the Margraviate of Schopfheim, born in 1927). Schopfheim 1927, pp. 1–154 (digital copy from Freiburg University Library )

Web links

• Romain Jurot: Rötteln, Walter von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

predecessor	Office	successor
Lüthold I of Aarburg	Bishop of Basel 1213–1215	Heinrich II of Thun