Liemar (unknown – 16 May 1101, in Bremen) was

archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen This list records the bishops of the Archdiocese of Bremen, Roman Catholic diocese of Bremen (), supposedly a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Archbishopric of Cologne, then of the bishops of Bremen, who were in personal union archbishops ...

from 1072 to 1101, and an important figure of the early

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. He was a supporter of

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from 1073. In 1074 the

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and Hubert of Palestrina put pressure on him to hold a local

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; he resisted, was suspended, and by 1075 his views against papal interference with bishops had hardened. In 1080, he attended the

Synod of Brixen The Synod of Brixen was a Synod, church council held on 15 June 1080 in the episcopal city of Brixen. It was convoked by King Henry IV of Germany at the height of the Investiture Controversy to pass judgement on Pope Pope Gregory VII, Gregory VII. T ...

that condemned

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. With

Benno II of Osnabrück Benno II ( – 27 July 1088) was Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück, Bishop of Osnabrück from 1068 until his death. He served as a close advisor and architect of Emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV. In 1080 he founded the Order of Sai ...

he commissioned the anti-papal polemic of Wido of Osnabrück around 1085. Liemar was one of many bishops who was irked by Gregory VII's encroachment of episcopal autonomy. In a letter to Bishop Hezilo of Hildesheim, Liemar complained that Gregory VII was ordering his bishops about 'as though they were his bailiffs'.I.S. Robinson, Gregory VII and episcopal authority.

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* http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Liemar

1101 deaths Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen Year of birth unknown 11th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Holy Roman Empire {{Germany-RC-archbishop-stub