Ulrich II (died 31 October 1221) was the 34th
Bishop of Passau
The Diocese of Passau is a Roman Catholic diocese in Germany that is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.[Passau
Passau (; bar, label=Central Bavarian, Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's popu ...]
is named after him.
Ulrich was the priest of the parish of
Falkenstein before serving in the chancellery of
Leopold V of Austria from 1193. He then became a skilled protonotary in 1214 to Bishop
Manegold of Passau.
[Lechner 1976, pp. 203–05.]
On 21 January 1217 Ulrich was given Ilzgau by the
Emperor Frederick II
Frederick II (German: ''Friedrich''; Italian: ''Federico''; Latin: ''Federicus''; 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusa ...
to hold as a
banner-fief. Thus, the Emperor made him the first Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Passau. Ulrich II and his successors were thus henceforth rich princes ''ex officio''. At the end of June, 1217, Bishop Ulrich inaugurated in a large feast day the first four altars of
Lilienfeld Abbey
Lilienfeld Abbey (german: Stift Lilienfeld) is a Cistercian monastery in Lilienfeld in Lower Austria, south of Sankt Pölten.
History
It was founded in 1202 by Leopold VI, Duke of Austria and Styria, as a daughter house of Heiligenkreuz Abbey. ...
.
[ In 1219, Ulrich II allowed himself to erect on Georgsberg a castle, the ]Veste Oberhaus
Veste Oberhaus is a fortress that was founded in 1219 and, for most of its time, served as the stronghold of the Bishop of Passau, Germany. It is currently the site of a museum, a youth hostel, and a restaurant, as well as an open-air theatre ...
. He also founded several monasteries in the eastern part of the diocese.
Ulrich died on 31 October 1221 on the Fifth Crusade
The Fifth Crusade (1217–1221) was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Egypt, ruled by the powerful Ayyubid sultanate, led by al-Adil, brother of Sala ...
in Damietta
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, Egypt
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.
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1221 deaths
German abbots
Roman Catholic bishops of Passau
Austrian abbots
Christians of the Fifth Crusade
13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Bavaria
Year of birth uncertain