Pilgrim (archbishop of Cologne)

Pilgrim († August 25, 1036 ) was from 1021 to 1036 Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne, since 1031 Lord Chancellor of Italy.

Life

His father was Chadalhoch IV († 1030), Count of Isengau, a brother of the Archbishop of Mainz Aribo, of the race of Aribonen; his grandfather was Count Palatine Aribo I. His mother was probably a Pilgrimidin.

From 1016 to 1021 Pilgrim was provost in Bamberg. As chancellor of the Emperor for Italy in 1021 he stayed with the Emperor Henry II in Cologne, where you just walked to the election of bishops. The choice fell on Pilgrim and the emperor appointed his confidante on June 29, 1021 to the Archbishop of Cologne.

1022 Pilgrim led a part of the imperial army, occupied Capua and took the city of Salerno. After the death of Emperor Henry II, he was one of the Lorraine Grand Duke to Dietrich and thus not to the voters of Conrad II, but he was probably soon be a road to the new king, his wife Gisela, he crowned three weeks after the election of a king. 1024 Pilgrim founded the Abbey Brauweiler whose monks he took from Stavelot. He took in 1027 at the Synod of Frankfurt.

Easter 1028 he crowned Henry III. in Aachen. 1031 Pilgrim won the office of arch-chancellor of Italy for the archbishops of Cologne. Pilgrim also purchased for the Archbishops of Cologne mint money for Cologne and Andernach. On May 21, 1034 Pilgrim donated to the newly built monastery of St. Nicholas to Brauweiler a court in Cologne together with the associated houses. He built the monastery of St. Apostles at Neumarkt in Cologne, here Pilgrim took place after his death, the final resting.