Sigwin von Are (died 31 May 1089), called the Pious, was Archbishop of Cologne from 1078 to his death. He was a deacon in Cologne in 1076. Appointed archbishop by the Emperor Henry IV, he remained a staunch supporter of Henry throughout the

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. He proclaimed the

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in 1083, only the second bishop in Germany. He rebuilt the church of Santa Maria in Cologne after it burned down in 1085. On 30 May 1087, he crowned Henry's son Conrad

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in Aachen. He died in Cologne and is buried in

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. Shortly after his death, he was being called "Sigwin the Pious."

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