See also:ADALBERT, or ADELBERT (c. 1000-1072)
, See also:German See also:arch-See also:bishop, the most famous ecclesiastic of the lrth See also:century, was the son of See also:Frederick, See also:count of Goseck, a member of a See also:noble Saxon See also:family
.
He was educated for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and began his clerical career at See also:Halberstadt, where he attained to the dignity of See also:provost
.
Having attracted the See also:notice of the German See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III., See also:Adalbert probably served as See also:chancellor of the See also:kingdom of See also:Italy, and in 1045 was appointed See also:archbishop of See also:Hamburg-See also:Bremen, his See also:province including the Scandinavian countries, as well as a larger See also:part of See also:North See also:Germany
.
In 1046 he accompanied Henry to See also:Rome, where he is said to have refused the papal See also:chair; and in 1052 he was made See also:legate by See also:Pope See also:Leo IX., and given the right to nominate bishops in his provihce
.
He sought to increase the See also:influence of his archbishopric, sent missionaries to See also:Finland, See also:Greenland and the See also:Orkney Islands, and aimed at making Bremen a patriarchal see for See also:northern See also:Europe, with twelve See also:suffragan bishoprics
.
He consolidated and increased the estates of the church, exercised the See also:powers of a count, denounced See also:simony and initiated See also:financial reforms
.
The presence of this powerful and active See also:personality, who was moreover a See also:close friend of the See also:emperor, was greatly resented by the Saxon See also:duke, See also:Bernard II., who regarded him as a See also:spy sent by Henry into See also:Saxony
.
Adalbert, who wished to See also:free his lands entirely from the authority of the duke, aroused further hostility by an attack on the privileges of the See also:great abbeys, and after the emperor's See also:death in ro56 his lands were ravaged by Bernard
.
He took a leading part in the See also:government of Germany during the minority of King Henry IV., and was styled patronus of the See also:young king, over whom he appears to have exercised considerable influence
.
Having accompanied Henry on a See also:campaign into See also:Hungary in 1063, he received large gifts of See also:crown estates, and obtained the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of count See also:palatine in Saxony
.
His See also:power aroused so much opposition that in 1o66 the king was compelled to assent to his removal from See also:court
.
In 1069 he was recalled by Henry, when he made a further See also:attempt to establish a northern patriarchate, which failed owing to the hostility of the papacy and the See also:condition of affairs in the Scandinavian kingdoms
.
He died at See also:Goslar on the 16th or 17th of See also:March 1072, and was buried in the See also:cathedral which he, had built at Bremen
.
Adalbert was a See also:man of proud and haughty bearing, with large ideas and a strong, energetic See also:character
.
He made
Bremen a See also:city of importance, and it was called by his biographer, See also:Adam of Bremen, the New Rome
.
See Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammenburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, edited by J
.
M
.
See also:Lappenberg, in the Monumenta Germaniae historica
.
Scriptores
.
See also:Band vii
.
(See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, 1826—1892) ; C
.
Gri.inhagen, Adalbert Erzbischof von Hamburg and See also:die Idee eines Nordischen Patriarchats (See also:Leipzig, 1854)
.
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