Bruno II. von Berg

Bruno von Berg ( * 1100, † May 29 1137 in Trani / Apulia) was as Bruno II 1131-1137 Archbishop of Cologne.

Life

He was a son of Count Adolf I of Berg and his wife Adelheid of Lauffen, an uncle of the Archbishop of Friedrich II of Berg and a nephew of Archbishop Bruno of Trier.

To 1119 Bruno was mentioned by Berg as provost of St. Castor in Koblenz. From 1127 he was dean of St. Gereon in Cologne, at the same time he was also a canon in Cologne. In 1130 he declined election to the Archbishop of Trier, and thus the successor of Archbishop Meginher. To this end, he had informed Pope Innocent II certain hidden reasons. Also, Bernard of Clairvaux, the Bruno had met before in 1126 in Reims and called him his friend, knew about those reasons. He advised him of the acceptance of the election, especially lie not a time of Repentance between Bruno's severe self-accusation and the official acceptance.

On December 25, 1131, he was in the presence of King Lothar III. and a papal legate elected in a canon law conflicting second election as Archbishop of Cologne. The actually recently elected Provost Gottfried von Xanten, was led before his enthronement to abdicate after Bruno, was recalled by his relatives from France, where he studied. On March 18, 1132 Bruno was of Berg, who suffered from epilepsy, ordained a bishop.

In 1133 he converted to the eponymous castle mountains at Altenberg in a Cistercian abbey along with his brothers Adolf and Eberhard. To 1134 he confirmed the Premonstratensian abbey founded by later Archbishop of Cologne Hugo von Sponheim Knechtsteden in Dormagen near Neuss.

Bruno von Berg died on May 29, 1137 in Trani / Apulia, as he Lothar III. accompanied on a campaign against Roger II of Sicily.