Albero I of Louvain

Albero I of Leuven ( * 1060, † January 1, 1129 ) was Bishop of Liege, and brother of Godfrey the Bearded Duke of Lorraine, Count of Leuven.

According to Bishop Frederick's death the Liège chair as a result of the investiture controversy two years had remained vacant. Only after the Treaty of Worms in 1122 between Emperor Henry V and Pope Calixtus II in which those renounced investiture of bishops with ring and staff, Albero was elected by the chapter in 1123 and invested by the Emperor personally present. Albero had to begin to clean his bishopric by the violence of the nobility; summoned by the emperor to his aid, destroyed Godfrey the Bearded 1123 in its major ruins are still visible today, Count Goswin II of Heinberg associated Falkenberg Castle, which had served the robbers as a base.