Johann I of Kraichgau

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Johann I, Count of Kraichgau (born 1063/1064, died October 26, 1104) was Bishop of Speyer from 1090 to 1104.

Johann I came from the family of the Counts of Zeisolf-Wolfram. His parents were Wolfram and Atzela, and his uncle was Hermann III von Hochstaden, the Archbishop of Cologne. [1]

Johann served prior to his episcopacy as an archdeacon at the collegiate church of Sinsheim. On March 7, 1090 he became Bishop of Speyer.

The family was closely connected with the Salians. Johann I was a faithful follower of Emperor Henry IV and remained in the investiture dispute at his side. In expiation of a consequent ban from the Pope, he founded Blaubeuren Abbey with his niece Adelaide. He also converted the collegiate church of Sinsheim to a monastery, for which he made rich endowments from his private possession.

During the persecution of the Jews in connection with the First crusade in 1096 he took the Jews into his personal protection (see History of the Jews in Speyer#Massacres of 1096).

Bishop Johann died on October 26, 1104, at the age of 41 and is registered on the day of his death with an annual memorial mass in the newer Seelbuch of Speyer Cathedral. He was buried in the collegiate church of Sinsheim, in a tomb in front of the high altar, where his mother was laid to rest. Johann's father and brother Wolfram were buried there in front of the altar of the apostle.

According to the chroniclers Philipp Simonis (1532-1587) and Wilhelm Eysengrein, he bequeathed his family's possession, the Castle of Spangenberg to the diocese of Speyer. [2]

The writer Wilhelm Hünermann used Bishop John vom Kraichgau as a literary figure in his 1941 novel The Living Light (Verlag der Buchgemeinde Bonn), about the life of St. Hildegard of Bingen.

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References

  1. ↑ Erich Wisplinghoff: Hermann III.. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN   3-428-00189-3, S. 635 (Digitalisatc).
  2. ↑ Webseite zur Geschichte der Burg Spangenberg (Record of original from the Internet Archive dated March 4, 2016)
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