Reginbert.Reginbert of Hagenau also called Raimbert (10 November 1148) was 1130 provost of the Stift St. Pölten and in 1138
bishop of Passau
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of the
St. Pölten Abbey. As a prophet of St. Pölten, he had the epitaph of his parents (the co-founders of Seitenstetten) built into the Stiftskirche Seitenstetten (St. Pölten) from the family shrine of the branch church of St. Peter am Anger.
Reginbert stemmed from the Austrian Hagenau
noble family
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. His father was
Reimprecht (also Reginbert I) of Hagenau, the co-founder of Seitenstetten. Reginbert had an older brother Werinhart and a younger named Hartwig, as well as a younger sister, Richarde, who joined the Familienstiftung Seitenstetten as a
nun
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. Reginbert, however, is expressly mentioned in documents as one of the family of the Counts of Peylnstein and Playen (Plain), from which a clan relationship between the Plainer and Hagenauer can be deduced.
After Bishop Reginmar died on 30 November 1138, Reginbert was elected as his successor as
Bishop of Passau
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Innocent II
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as a priest and a bishop. That a priest ordination was necessary at this time indicates that he was only a deacon before then.
Career
During his administration, he closely linked his family, especially his brother Hartwig, to the episcopal policy. In the conflict between Welfen and Staufern, he behaved pro-stubbornly. In 1139, against the will or without the participation of the Stiftskanoniker, he handed over to a candidate of his choice the proclamation of the Reichsstiftes Ranshofen. However, according to a mandate of the Pope, Innocent II, Reginbert had to grant the convent a free, canonical election, from which Manegold emerged. The years 1139 to 1144 were characterized by an argument with the monastery Reichersberg: Proclamation against Pope Innocent II against the tenths of the Passau bishop. On the basis of the resolutions of the
Synod of Pisa in 1135, according to which clergymen, who by their own hand and with their own resources, were engaged in goods, were not obliged to pay ten, the pope forbade the demands of Reginbert. He ignored the mandate three times. Only when Pope Lucius II undertook more energetic steps did Reginbert intervene, escaping presumably from his excommunication. In 1140 Reginbert took part in the Reichstag in Frankfurt. He is responsible for the construction of a hospital and around 1143 the construction of the first bridge with the defensive gate at the residence in Passau. For the failure of the ferry, the penitent St. Nikola was compensated by the donation of the church to Hartkirchen. Under Reginbert's leadership the monasteries of Zwettl, Baumgartenberg, Suben, Altenburg and Waldhausen were founded. In 1146 he appointed his brother Hartwig to the post of the hospital in Vöcklabruck.
As a loyal follower of the Staufer, he accompanied
Konrad III On the
Second Crusade
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. He broke up with his contingent in 1147 to join the army of Konrad in
Regensburg
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. On the way out, Reginbert consecrated the Stephanskirche in Vienna in the same year, the predecessor of St. Stephan's cathedral (patronate after the mother church Passau). On the return journey from Palestine through the Byzantine Empire he fell ill and died there on 10 November 1148.
[Georg Victor Schmid: Geschichte des Bisthums Passau. Verlag Friedrich A. Perthes, Gotha 1858. p7.]
Reginbert had previously convinced his childless brother
Hartwig von Hagenau, before he went with him to the Second Crusade, to make a will in favor of the Passau diocese. In fact, Hartwig was also on the crusade and there was a dispute over Hartwig's abandoned estates between the third brother
Werinhardt von Hagenau and his sons and Hartwig's widow. The Archbishopric of Passau also reported his claims.
Henry II, Duke of Austria
Henry II (german: Heinrich; 1107 – 13 January 1177), called Jasomirgott, a member of the House of Babenberg,Lingelbach 1913, pp. 91–92. was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1140 to 1141, Duke of Bavaria (as ''Henry XI'') and Margrave of Austria ...
held a court day and decided in favor of the now bishop
Konrad I of Passau, which in 1150 received the Lehenhagenau near Braunau. The brother of Hartwig and his sons were rewarded.
References
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12th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Bavaria
Roman Catholic bishops of Passau
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Christians of the Second Crusade
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