Albero de Montreuil
Adalberon of Munsterol ( Montreuil ) (also: Albero, Adalbero, * to 1080, † January 18, 1152 in Koblenz ) was Archbishop of Trier from 1132 to 1152.
Albero came from the family Thicourt - Montreuil. The parents were Gerhard von Thicour - Montreuil and Adelheid of Dampierre. He was provost of St- Arnual in Saarbrücken and in St- Gengoul in Toul and primicerius in Metz. He was also archdeacon of Metz, Toul, and Verdun. Bishop chairs in Magdeburg and Halberstadt he refused. After the death of the Archbishop of Trier Meginher he was appointed as his successor. Between February 27 and March 7, 1132 he was ordained in Vienne to the Archbishop of Trier. Albero appeared twice on the yard (in March 1135 in Bamberg and Speyer in the year 1135/36 ) of the Holy Roman Emperor Lothar. He also accompanied him on his expedition to Italy and took into account the interests of the Pope. 1137 he was appointed papal legate in Germany. In the years of conflict over the succession of the deceased childless in 1125 Salian emperor Henry V succeeded Albero select the Hohenstaufen Konrad king as Archbishop of Trier after the death of Lothair with a small group of powerful prince in Koblenz in 1138. Since the Mainz Erzstuhl vacant and the Archbishop of Cologne was not yet ordained, Pope Innocent II Albero had commissioned as Returning Officer. But this was also the claims of Henry the Proud, the most powerful princes of the empire, passed over. However, Conrad was able to very quickly get approval for his kingdom and the princes are not involved in Koblenz.
As Conrad's partisans he had good relations with the king. Konrad earned him the highest respect contrary, calling him " the marks and the soul of the kingdom " ( eum regni videbat robur et mentem existere ). However, it is not clear that he played a leading role in the king's council. Soon after taking office, he wanted to get the location in front of the imperial abbey of St. Maximin of Trier under his control and reform the resident Benedictine. In 1139 it was of Conrad III. transferred the monastery. The transfer should be done in gratitude for his support of Conrad in the election of 1138. The Norbertine, Cistercian and Augustinian canons were particularly encouraged by him. Albero had great prestige in the empire. He was friends with Norbert of Xanten and Bernard of Clairvaux. In the winter of 1147/48 he was visited by Pope Eugene III. in Trier. The church was consecrated in St. Eucharius. For Stephan von Bar, took part in the Second Crusade, he administered the diocese of Metz. For Domscholaster he called Balderich, who wrote his biography.
The source location to the Archbishop of Trier, is highly privileged because he received two contemporary biographies. The anonymous Gesta traditional metrica describe Alberos work from the beginning of his pontificate until the year 1145th The authored by Balderich Vita is of greater importance, as they mostly do without hagiographic topoi and partially supports individual traits.
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- Hatto Kallfelz. Biographies of some of the bishops 10.-12.Jh., 1986 ( = Freiherr vom Stein memory output, contains the German and Latin version of the Gesta Balderici Alberoni )
- Gesta Alberoni archiepiscopi auctore Balde Rico. In: Georg Heinrich Pertz et al (eds): Scriptores ( in folio ) 8: Chronica et gesta aevi Salici. Hannover 1848, pp. 243-260 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )