Widelo from Minden

Widelo (also Witelo , Wylo ) († December 28, 1119 ) was the (counter) bishop of Minden from 1097 to 1105 . Deposed in the meantime, he held office again in 1113 until his death.

He is said to have been a born Lord von Panen and a clergyman in Cologne before his election as bishop . He became bishop at the time of the dispute between supporters of Pope Gregory and those of King Henry IV (cf. investiture controversy ) in the diocese of Minden ("Mindener Schism"). He was appointed by Heinrich in 1097 because, on the one hand, his predecessor, Bishop Volkmar, who was legitimate from the imperial point of view , was murdered and the office was thus to be filled again from the imperial point of view, and on the other hand, due to the death of Bishop Ulrich von Minden , who was appointed by the papal side, 1097 de facto ruled over the diocese, a chance arose to fill the post of bishop with a candidate acceptable to the emperor. Widelo initially managed to rule Minden and succeed the Gregorian Ulrichs (von Minden), who ruled Minden from 1096 to 1097. The Bishop of Constance and papal legate Gebhard III. von Zähringen deposed Widelo at a meeting of the king with Saxon greats at Easter 1105 in Goslar . In his place, Gottschalk von Minden , whom the followers of Gregory had also previously elected bishop in 1097, but who initially could not gain power over the diocese, was confirmed in this office. Widelo lived at the royal court in the following period. After Gottschalk's death in 1113, Widelo served again as bishop in Minden until his death on December 28, 1119. Widelo was the last bishop of Minden who had to assert himself against an opposing bishop. His successor Siegward von Minden, like Gottschalk, ruled unchallenged in his second term.

literature

• Heinrich Leo: Lectures on the history of the German people and empire. Vol. 5. Halle 1867, pp. 696f.
• Wolfram Ziegler: King Konrad III. (1138-1152) Court, documents and politics. Vienna 2008 p. 720.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops up to the end of the sixteenth century. Volume 2, Leipzig 1858
2. ↑ 1080. Bishop's Schism in Minden. In: Internet portal Westphalian history. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History, Münster, January 28, 2004, accessed on October 12, 2012 . 

swell

• Lothar III. (RI IV, 1, 1) n.23 (1113 - before 1119 December 28) Linden RI-online

predecessor	Office	successor
Ulrich or Volkmar (opposing bishops)	Bishop of Minden 1097–1105	Gottschalk

predecessor	Office	successor
Gottschalk	Bishop of Minden 1113–1119	Siegward