Bruno III of Berg

Bruno von Berg ( * 1140, † 1200 ) was as Bruno III. 1191-1193 Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Life

He was a son of Count Adolf II of Berg ( * 1095, † 1170 ). He was a brother of Archbishop Friedrich II of Berg, a nephew of Archbishop Bruno II von Berg and an uncle of Archbishop Engelbert I of Berg.

He was provost of Georg pin in Cologne. He also was a member of the cathedral chapter, and was provost in 1168. In 1191 he became the third Archbishop of Cologne from the house of the Counts of Berg.

" The interaction of bergischer needle fraction and Domkapitelspartei within the high clergy Cologne Bruno owed ​​his elevation, which was characterized by the Bishop of Cologne chronicle as intrusio. He was already an old man, who was not up to his office and, therefore, after two years because of age-related frailties and body - such as mental retardation renounced by the bishop's staff resigned in the presence of priors and noblemen on the high altar of the cathedral. The inadequacy of the candidate and the shortness of his pontificate grounds to suspect that he has been chosen from the outset as placeholders for his nephew Adolf of Altena, who was already in 1192 followed him as provost and thus created a favorable starting position for the next election had. "

In 1193 Bruno resigned as Archbishop of Cologne and retired as a monk to Altenberg. After his death he was buried in Altenberg.

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