Henry II of Augsburg

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Henri II of Augsburg
Bishop of Augsburg
Diocese Augsburg
In office1047 – 1063
Predecessor Eberhard I of Augsburg
Successor Embrico of Augsburg
Personal details
Died3 September 1063
Denomination Roman Catholic

Henry II of Augsburg (origin and ancestry unknown; died 3 September 1063) was Bishop of Augsburg from 1047 to 1063.

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Prior to his episcopal tenure Henry II was a member of the Hofkapelle [1] of Emperor Henry III and, from 1046 to 1047, the head of the Italian chancellery, in which documents that concerned the Italian lands of the Holy Roman Empire were prepared. His career is thus typical of the Ottonian-Salian imperial church. As Bishop of Augsburg, Henry II was responsible for the expansion of Augsburg Cathedral and the episcopal palace. [2]

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  1. ↑ The Hofkapelle was the central ecclesiastical institution of the imperial court, not to be confused with the later usage of the word which meant "court orchestra".
  2. ↑ Tyler, J. Jeffery; Lord of the Sacred City - The Episcopus Exclusus in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany, Boston, Brill Publishers, 1999, p. 80 ISBN   9789004111202

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