William I of Strasbourg

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Wilhelm († November 7, 1047 ) was a prince of the Salian family and bishop of Strasbourg .

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Wilhelm was the fourth and youngest son of Otto von Worms , Duke of Carinthia from the Salier family, and his wife Judith von Carinthia . His brother, who died early, was Pope Gregory V. He became a clergyman and was canon in Strasbourg , as well as Archkaplan of Empress Gisela , the wife of his nephew Emperor Konrad II , since 1027 first emperor from the House of Salians. In 1029, at the advanced age of around 50, Wilhelm became Bishop of Strasbourg.

In the Codex minor ecclesiae Spirensis , a copy book of the Diocese of Speyer from the 13th century, the note has been preserved that on December 3, 1038 in the Abbey of Limburg by St. Bishop Bardo of Mainz , in the presence of Emperor Konrad II, his wife Gisela and the bishops Azecho von Worms , Reginbald von Speyer, Heribert from Eichstätt , Thietmar von Hildesheim , as well as Walter von Verona , in the calendar dispute against Bishop Wilhelm of Strasbourg, it was decided that the first Sunday of Advent should always be between November 27 and must be committed on December 3rd. The background to the matter was a visit by the emperor to Strasbourg on November 26th of that year, where he was astonished to find that his uncle, Bishop Wilhelm, was celebrating the 1st Sunday of Advent there a week earlier, in which the emperor deviated from the ecclesiastical norm.

It is said that Bishop Wilhelm and his confidante, who later became Bishop Benno II of Osnabrück , went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land at the beginning of the 1040s .

After Bishop Wilhelm had converted the Schottenkloster to St. Thomas into a secular collegiate monastery in 1031 , the common life of the lords in the canons ' cloister was given up. As early as the middle of the 15th century, each canon lived in his own courtyard, which was left to him by the chapter for a lifelong usufruct.

He fortified and consecrated the Burgheimer Church in Lahr on July 25, 1035 , as well as Wilhelm consecrated the new building of the Thomaskirche (Strasbourg) and gave gifts to the Eschau (Bas-Rhin) monastery and the Church of Dambach-la-Ville .

The bishop had the " Jung-St. Peter " church built in Strasbourg in which he was buried in 1047. He founded the monastery in 1031.

Archbishop Hunfried von Ravenna , previously canon in Strasbourg, gave his paternal inheritance Embrach to the Bishopric of Strasbourg in 1044 and handed it over to Bishop Wilhelm. However, the latter ceded the rights to it in 1046 to the spatially closer neighboring bishopric of Konstanz , whereas the Strasbourg cathedral chapter objected and this led to disputes that lasted after Wilhelm's death.

Bishop Wilhelm is referred to in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon by Traugott Bautz as "the organizer and stabilizer of his diocese" with a "deeply religious attitude" .

Abbot Lambert von Moyenmoutier dedicated a poem to him as a resolution to his monastery chronicle.

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  1. ↑ Online edition of the regest  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / regesten.regesta-imperii.de  
  2. ↑ Gustav Carl Knod, the canons of St. Thomas at Strasbourg, 1518-1548, Strasbourg Printing and Publishing Company, 1892, 59 pages, page 36th
  3. ↑ Hansmartin Schwarzmaier: From Speyer to Rome - way stations and traces of life of Salier Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991, ISBN 3-7995-4132-2 , p. 69.


personal data
SURNAME William I of Strasbourg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Strasbourg
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1047