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ADALBERT, or ADELBERT (c. 1000-1072)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 167 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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, 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, See also: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 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 .

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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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