Berenger I. von Sulzbach

• Preferred Name: Berenger I. von Sulzbach^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Alternate Name: Berengar von Sulzbach II
  
• Alternate Name: von Sulzbach
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: in Sulzbach (Taunus), Erzbistum Mainz, Saint-Empire romain at LATI: N0.1359 LONG: E0.523
  
• Death: 3 DEC 1125 in Lörrach, Landkreis Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Allemagne at LATI: N7.6286 LONG: E0.6814
  
• Birth: environ 1080 in Sulzbach (Taunus), Erzbistum Mainz, Saint-Empire romain at LATI: N0.1359 LONG: E0.523
  
• FSID: LKV6-C6V
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Count Berengar II of Sulzbach (c. 1080-83 - 3 December 1125), sometimes known as Berengar I of Sulzbach,[a] was Count of Sulzbach in Bavaria. Berengar was a leader of the reform party. He sided with Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy in opposition to Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and supported Henry V in his successful rebellion against his father. He is known as the founder of several abbeys.
  
  Family Edit
  
  Berengar's grandfather was Gebhard I, Count of Sulzbach (died 1071), who married the daughter of Count Berengar I of Sulzbach. Gebhard I may have been the son of Herman IV, Duke of Swabia (died 28 July 1038), but this is not certain.[1] Gebhard I was father of Gebhard II. Berengar was the son of Count Gebhard II of Sulzbach (died 1085) and Irmgard of Rott (died 14 June 1101).[2] His sister Adelaide may have married Count Siboto II of Weyarn-Falkenstein, who was later the advocate of Baumburg Abbey.[3] The Weyarns at first supported Henry IV in his conflict with Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy. Later Siboto II was associated with the pro-papal side that included the Sulzbachs.[4]
  
  Around 1099 Berengar married Adelaide, widow and heiress of Count Udalric of Passau, nicknamed "the very rich". Count Udalric's cousin, the Count palatine Rapoto of Bavaria, had died around the same time as Udalric and had been succeeded by Berengar's relative Diepold III, margrave of the Nordgau in Bavaria, who inherited the titles of Count of Cham and Margrave of Vuhburg.[5] Berengar was married to Adelheid von Lechsgemünd for over six years until her death in 1105. This marriage seems to have been childless.[6]
  
  Berengar's second wife was Adelheid von Dießen-Wolfratshausen, with whom he had six children, Four of these children married into the highest circles. His son, Count Gebhard III of Sulzbach, married Matilda, daughter of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria. His daughter Gertrude was the wife of King Conrad III of Germany. Her sister Luitgarde married Godfrey II, Count of Louvain and Duke of Lower Lorraine.[6] In 1143 his daughter Bertha, later called Irene, married the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos of Byzantium (c. 1120-1180). She died about 1158.[7]
  
  Advisor to Henry V Edit
  
  On 5 February 1104 Count Sigehard of Burghausen was murdered, and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was blamed for the crime.[8] Berengar was one of the Bavarian Nordgau princes who held the emperor responsible for the murder. The others were Diepold III of Cham-Vohburg and Otto, count of Castl-Habsberg.[9] They encouraged Henry V to rebel against his father. The three were closely associated with the Gregorian party of Bishop Gebhard of Constance.[9] The noble reform party thought that the Emperor Henry IV was leading the people to destruction and only the true church, the church of the Gregorian and Monastic Reform, could point the way to salvation.[10]
  
  On 12 December 1104 King Henry V with a small retinue left his father's camp in Fritzlar and took refuge in Bavaria, the start of the rebellion.[11] During the struggle from 1104 to 1106 Berengar was often with Henry V and one of his key advisers in affairs of the kingdom.[12] In 1106 Henry IV took refuge from his son in Regensburg, calling for assistance from the Czech Duke Bořivoj. The Czech army came up, but when they saw that Henry V was supported by Margrave Diepold III and Count Berengar they retreated.[13] The emperor continued his flight, and died at Liège on 8 August 1106.[14]
  
  Between 1108 and 1111 Berengar took part in the campaigns in Hungary and Poland and on Henry's expedition to Rome. From January 1116 to autumn 1119 there is no sign of his presence at the royal court of Henry V. It is believed that during this time Count Berengar dedicated his absence from the royal court to increasing his monasteries.[12]
  
  Henry V died on 23 May 1125. Berengar was present at the emperor's funeral, and was one of the signatories to a letter inviting the leading men of the kingdom to attend a diet on 25 August 1125 to elect a successor. The first signatory was Adalbert I, Archbishop of Mainz, the archchancellor of Germany. The other secular signatories were Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, Frederick II, Duke of Swabia and Godfrey, Count Palatine.[15]
  
  Berengar died on 3 December 1125 and was succeeded by his son Gebhard III.[6] The son and heir of Gebhard III died on an expedition to Rome in 1167. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, nephew of Conrad III, bought the Sulzbach lands for his two sons, Frederick and Otto.[16]
  
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  Count Berengar II of Sulzbach (c. 1080-83-3 December 1125)
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1. Gebhard III. von Sulzbach, b. ABT 1114     d. 28 OCT 1188
2. Luitgarde von Sulzbach, b. 18 NOV 1109 in Sulzbach, Aichach, Aichach-Friedberg, Bavaria, Germany     d. após 1162 in Leuven, Brabant Flamand, Belgique
3. Gertrud von Sulzbach Queen Consort of Germany, b. 1102 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Amberg-Sulzbach, Bavaria, Germany     d. 14 APR 1146 in Bad Hersfeld, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hessen, Deutschland

1. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
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   Note: BERENGAR [III] von Sulzbach, son of GEBHARD [II] Graf von Sulzbach & his wife Irmgard von Rott ([1080]-3 Dec [1125], bur Kastl). The 14th century Deutsche Reimchronik of Kloster Kastel records that “Gebhardus...Sultzpach” had “ainon Suon...Grafe Bernger”[1845]. Graf von Sulzbach. Berengar [III] must have been a child when his father died, which is consistent with the chronology of his later life. The documents dated Feb 1111 relating to the coronation of Heinrich V King of Germany as emperor name "Fridericum filium sororis suæ, marchionem Engilbertum, marchionem Thiebaldus, comitem Hermannum, Fridericum palatinum comitem de Saxonia, Berlingarium de Bavaria, Godefridum comitem, Fridericum Saxonum, Albertum cancellarium, Cononem fratri Berengarii, Sigebot de Bavaria, Henricum ducem Carinthie, Bertoldum filium ducis Bertoldi" as the emperor's guarantors, in a later passage "Berlingarium de Bavaria" signing as "Beringarius comes de Bavaria"[1846]. “...Comes Peringer...” witnessed the charter dated 29 Sep 1108 issued by Heinrich V King of Germany for the church of Bamberg[1847]. "Comes Peringarius" donated "ecclesiam…Etindorf" to Bamburg by charter dated to [1120][1848]. Founder of Berchtesgaden and Baumburg. Co-founder of Kloster Kastl. The Concordat of Worms dated 23 Sep 1122 is subscribed by "…Berlingarius comes"[1849]. “Comes...Peringarius unacum uxore sua Adelheida ac filio Gebehardo” donated “ex hereditate matris...in villa Grettich et in Sconeberge et in Grauingadem” to Berchtesgaden by undated charter[1850]. Wegener dates this charter to early Dec 1125[1851]. A document of Lothar King of Germany dated Aug 1125 names "…B comes de Sulzbach…"[1852]. The necrology of Baumburg records the death "III Non Dec" of "Perengarius com de Sulzpach fundator"[1853]. The necrology of Salzburg St Rudpert records the death "III Non Dec" of "Berengarius com"[1854]. The Latin Chronicle of Kloster Kastel records the death “pridie Non Dec” 1125 of “dominus Perngerus comes de Sultzpach fundator huius ecclesie” and his burial “in monesterio Scti Petri in Kastello”[1855]. m firstly ([1100]) as her third husband, ADELHEID von Lechsgemünd, widow firstly of MARKWARD Graf im Chiemgau [Sieghardinger] and secondly of ULRICH Graf von Passau, daughter of KUNO von Lechsgemünd & his wife Mathilde von Horburg [Achalm] (-24 Feb [1108]). The Fundatio Monasterii Baumburgensis names "in Bawarie provincial comes…Cuno…filiam Adilheit" as founder of Kloster Baumburg, naming her first husband "comes Marcohardus de castro…Marcarstain", her second husband "comes Udalricus de Pactavia" and her third husband "Berngero comiti de Sulzphach"[1856]. The necrology of Baumburg records the death "VI Kal Mar" of "Alheidis com fundatrix"[1857]. m secondly ADELHEID von Wolfratshausen, daughter of OTTO II Graf von Wolfratshausen & his wife Justizia --- (-11/12 Jan 1126, bur Kastl). The 14th century Deutsche Reimchronik of Kloster Kastel names “Von Wolfratshusen...Alhait” as wife of “Hern Pernger”[1858]. Some indirect corroboration of a connection between the Grafen von Sulzbach and the Grafen von Wolfratshausen is found in the De Fundatoribus Monasterii Diessenses which inaccurately names "Richentzam Lotharii imperatoris uxorem et Mariam imperatricem Grecorum" as daughters of "Ottonis de Wolfarthausen"[1859]. Some creative interpretation of this text is required: firstly, that it confuses the wife of Emperor Lothar and his successor Konrad III King of Germany (the latter being married to a daughter of Berengar Graf von Sulzbach); secondly, that "Mariam" is an error for "Bertam" the name of another daughter of Berengar Graf von Sulzbach who was married to Emperor Manuel I; and thirdly, that it omits reference to the intervening generation of the daughter of Graf Otto. "Cometissa…Adilheit de Sulzbach" donated property to Bamburg by charter dated to [1120][1860]. “Comes...Peringarius unacum uxore sua Adelheida ac filio Gebehardo” donated “ex hereditate matris...in villa Grettich et in Sconeberge et in Grauingadem” to Berchtesgaden by undated charter[1861]. Wegener dates this charter to early Dec 1125[1862]. The necrology of Tegernsee records the death "II Id Jan" of "Alhaidis comitissa de Sulzpach"[1863], the Liber Oblationum recording the death "III Id Jan" of "Alhaidis com de Sultzbach sor nra" and her burial "in capitolio nostro"[1864]. The necrology of Salzburg St Rudpert records the death "III Id Jan" of "Adelheit com"[1865]. Graf Berengar [III] & his second wife had six children: 1. GEBHARD [III] (-28 Oct [1188], bur Kastl). 2. ADELHEID (-after 1147). 3. GERTRUD (-Hersfeld 14 Apr 1146, bur Ebrach). 4. BERTHA (-28 Sep [1159/60]). 5. LUTGARDIS (-after 1162). 6. MATHILDE (-31 Oct or 3 Nov 1165).
   
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3. Title: Wikipedia - Berenger II of Sulzbach
   Author: Albrecht, Dieter (1995). "Die Fürstpropstei Berchtesgaden". In Max Spindler, Andreas Kraus (ed.). Handbuch der bayerischen Geschichte: Teilbd. Geschichte der Oberpfalz und des Bayerischen Reichskreises bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts. C.H.Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-39453-9. Retrieved 2013-12-07. "Berchtesgaden, Chorherrenstift". Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte. Retrieved 2013-12-07. Brugger, Walter; Dopsch, Heinz; Kramml, Peter F. (1991). Geschichte von Berchtesgaden: Zwischen Salzburg und Bayern (bis 1594). Plenk. ISBN 978-3-922590-63-7. Cosmas of Prague (1120). The Chronicle of the Czechs. CUA Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-1570-9. Retrieved 2013-12-08. Dopsch, Heinz (1991). "Siedlung und Recht. Zur Vorgeschichte der Berchtesgadener Stiftsgründer". Geschichte von Berchtesgaden: Zwischen Salzburg und Bayern (bis 1594). Plenk. ISBN 978-3-922590-63-7. Retrieved 2013-12-07. Feulner, Manfred (1986). Berchtesgaden - Geschichte des Landes und seiner Bewohner. Berchtesgaden:Berchtesgadener Anzeiger.
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   Note: Count Berengar II of Sulzbach (c. 1080–83 – 3 December 1125), sometimes known as Berengar I of Sulzbach,[a] was Count of Sulzbach in Bavaria. Berengar was a leader of the reform party. He sided with Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy in opposition to Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and supported Henry V in his successful rebellion against his father. He is known as the founder of several abbeys. Family Berengar's grandfather was Gebhard I, Count of Sulzbach (died 1071), who married the daughter of Count Berengar I of Sulzbach. Gebhard I may have been the son of Herman IV, Duke of Swabia (died 28 July 1038), but this is not certain.[1] Gebhard I was father of Gebhard II.[citation needed] Berengar was the son of Count Gebhard II of Sulzbach (died 1085) and Irmgard of Rott (died 14 June 1101).[2] His sister Adelaide may have married Count Siboto II of Weyarn-Falkenstein, who was later the advocate of Baumburg Abbey.[3] The Weyarns at first supported Henry IV in his conflict with Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy. Later Siboto II was associated with the pro-papal side that included the Sulzbachs.[4] Around 1099 Berengar married Adelaide, widow and heiress of Count Udalric of Passau, nicknamed "the very rich". Count Udalric's cousin, the Count palatine Rapoto of Bavaria, had died around the same time as Udalric and had been succeeded by Berengar's relative Diepold III, margrave of the Nordgau in Bavaria, who inherited the titles of Count of Cham and Margrave of Vuhburg.[5] Berengar was married to Adelheid von Lechsgemünd for over six years until her death in 1105. This marriage seems to have been childless.[6] Berengar's second wife was Adelheid von Dießen-Wolfratshausen, with whom he had six children, Four of these children married into the highest circles. His son, Count Gebhard III of Sulzbach, married Matilda, daughter of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria. His daughter Gertrude was the wife of King Conrad III of Germany.[7] Her sister Luitgarde married Godfrey II, Count of Louvain and Duke of Lower Lorraine.[6] In 1143 his daughter Bertha, later called Irene, married the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos of Byzantium (c. 1120–1180). She died about 1158.[8] Advisor to Henry V On 5 February 1104 Count Sigehard of Burghausen was murdered, and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was blamed for the crime.[9] Berengar was one of the Bavarian Nordgau princes who held the emperor responsible for the murder. The others were Diepold III of Cham-Vohburg and Otto, count of Kastl-Habsberg.[10] They encouraged Henry V to rebel against his father. The three were closely associated with the Gregorian party of Bishop Gebhard of Constance.[10] The noble reform party thought that the Emperor Henry IV was leading the people to destruction and only the true church, the church of the Gregorian and Monastic Reform, could point the way to salvation.[11] On 12 December 1104 King Henry V with a small retinue left his father's camp in Fritzlar and took refuge in Bavaria, the start of the rebellion.[12] During the struggle from 1104 to 1106 Berengar was often with Henry V and one of his key advisers in affairs of the kingdom.[13] In 1106 Henry IV took refuge from his son in Regensburg, calling for assistance from the Czech Duke Bořivoj. The Czech army came up, but when they saw that Henry V was supported by Margrave Diepold III and Count Berengar they retreated.[14] The emperor continued his flight, and died at Liège on 8 August 1106.[15] Between 1108 and 1111 Berengar took part in the campaigns in Hungary and Poland and on Henry's expedition to Rome. From January 1116 to autumn 1119 there is no sign of his presence at the royal court of Henry V. It is believed that during this time Count Berengar dedicated his absence from the royal court to increasing his monasteries.[13] Henry V died on 23 May 1125. Berengar was present at the emperor's funeral, and was one of the signatories to a letter inviting the leading men of the kingdom to attend a diet on 25 August 1125 to elect a successor. The first signatory was Adalbert I, Archbishop of Mainz, the archchancellor of Germany. The other secular signatories were Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, Frederick II, Duke of Swabia and Godfrey, Count Palatine.[16] Berengar died on 3 December 1125 and was succeeded by his son Gebhard III.[6] The son and heir of Gebhard III died on an expedition to Rome in 1167. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, nephew of Conrad III, bought the Sulzbach lands for his two sons, Frederick and Otto.[17] Religious foundations As one of the leaders of the ecclesiastical reform circle in Upper Bavaria, Swabia and Saxony Berengar was one of the founders of the Abbeys of Berchtesgaden, Kastl, and Baumberg.[18] Berchtesgaden Provostry Berchtesgaden Berengar's first monastery foundation, the Berchtesgaden Provostry, was commissioned by his mother Irmgard of Rott. According to legend, it was founded in fulfillment of a vow of thanksgiving for the salvation of his father, Gebhard II of Sulzbach, after a hunting accident at the rock on which the Berchtesgaden Collegiate Church stands today. His mother Irmgard owned Berchtesgaden from her first marriage with Count Engelbert V of Chiemgau, and as his widow had made a vow to have a house built for use by an "assembly of clergy of communal life" ("congregatio clericorum communis vite"). Due to various worldly affairs Irmgard did not have the time to found the congregation, so shortly before her death she commissioned Berengar with the task, to promote his and her salvation.[19] In the year of his mother's death, 1101, Berengar appointed the canon Eberwin as the first provost. Under his guidance, he sent three Augustinian canons and four lay brothers to Berchtesgaden from Rottenbuch Abbey, the mother abbey of the Augustinians in Altbayern and a center of the canonical reform movement. Berengar and his half-brother Kuno von Horburg-Lechsgemünd then requested papal confirmation for the founding of the monastery. Probably in 1102 and no later than 1105 Kuno von Horburg and Eberwin traveled to Rome on behalf of Berengar.[20] Pope Paschal II had very likely on 7 April 1102 placed the Count's monastery under his protection.[21][18] He confirmed this privilege in writing to Berengar and Kuno von Horburg.[b][22] According to the Fundatio monasterii Berchtesgadensis the Augustinians at first found the lonely wilderness of Berchtesgaden, with its terrifying mountain forests, and permanent ice and snow a very inhospitable place, and sought somewhere more suitable.[23][24] Kastl Abbey Kastl Abbey After the Lateran council of March/April 1102, on 12 May 1102 Berengar was granted the privilege of founding the St Peter monastery in Kastl according to the Hirsauer reform.[25] Berengar co-founded the abbey with Count Friedrich of Kastl-Habsberg and his son Otto.[11] Diepold III of Cham-Vohburg also assisted with the foundation.[10] Baumburg Abbey Baumburg Abbey In 1102 Paschal gave Berengar the privilege of founding Baumburg Abbey.[26] In 1104–06 Berengar was deeply involved in the struggles of Henry V against his father Emperor Henry IV, and was unable to implement the wishes of his wife Adelheid von Lechsgemünd to spend the inheritance from her first two marriages to establish a Reform congregation. Adelheid therefore felt compelled before her death (1104/1105) to place her husband and a dozen selected ministers under oath to establish a regular canons monastery to the north of lake Chiemsee and to annex the existing church of St. Margaret in Baumburg. But to found two monasteries within three or four years and to participate in the reform of the Kastl Abbey at the same time gave him great difficulty. He therefore followed the urging of his church officials and expanded Baumburg with goods from Berchtesgaden so he would have at least one well-equipped monastery, and would meet the wishes of his mother and first wife.[27] In 1107, or at the latest in 1109, Eberwin and his monks from Berchtesgaden founded Baumburg Abbey in the north of the present Traunstein district.[28] Later, probably around 1116, Eberwin returned to Berchtesgaden where the first major land clearing was undertaken and the Augustinians settled permanently.[29] The independence of Berchtesgaden was not secure, since Gottschalk (ca. 1120–1163), provost of Baumburg, was not willing to accept the loss of the Berchtesgaden assets. After Berengar died in 1125, Gottschalk challenged the legality of the separation and asked Archbishop Conrad I of Salzburg for an injunction to re-merge the properties.[30] Conrad finally confirmed the independence of both monasteries in 1136, which was confirmed by Pope Innocent II in 1142.[31]
   
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