Siegfried I (archbishop of Mainz)

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Siegfried I
Archbishop of Mainz
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseElectorate of Mainz
In office1060–1084
Personal details
Died16 February 1084

Siegfried I (died 16 February 1084) was the

Archbishop of Mainz
.

Family

Siegfried was a member of the

advocate of the diocesan church of Mainz from 1052 to 1074.[1]

Career in the church

Siegfried was educated in the monastery of Fulda and became a monk there. On 25 December 1058, he was appointed abbot of Fulda and on 6 January 1060, the

Adalbert of Bremen
, and remained a 'third force'.

In Winter 1064 – 1065, he

Benedictine monastery at Saalfeld.[5]

In 1072, under the pretext of a pilgrimage to

Cluniac reform in his diocese. In 1074, in that vein, he established the monasteries of Ravengiersburg and Hasungen
.

Siegfried initially sided with Henry IV in the

Herman of Salm as the second anti-king in Goslar
. After 1081, he ceased to involve himself in public affairs until his death at Hasungen, where he was buried.

Sources

Notes

  1. ^ Eldevik, Episcopal power, p. 221
  2. ^ Eldevik, Episcopal power, p. 222
  3. ^ Eldevik, Episcopal power, pp. 222f.
  4. ^ P. Jaffé, ed., Monumenta Bambergensia (1869), no. 34, pp. 64ff., accessible online at archive.org (in Latin)
  5. ^ Eldevik, Episcopal power, pp. 224f.
  6. ^ Eldevik, Episcopal power, p. 225.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Archbishop of Mainz

1060–1084 		Succeeded by
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