Conrad II, Bishop of Hildesheim
Conrad II (* end of the 12th century, † December 18, 1249 Schönau Abbey ) was from 1221 to 1246 Bishop of Hildesheim. He led the diocese beginning of the 13th century through a time of bloom, which was crowned particularly by the grant of political independence by Emperor Frederick II.
Curriculum vitae
Conrad II, who was not religious, served after studying theology in Paris at various locations in Germany. He was Domscholaster in Mainz and when he went to Speyer cathedral dean. In Speyer, he was also a papal chaplain and penitentiary at Speyer Cathedral.
Episcopate
The episcopate of Hildesheim he took over in 1221st During his tenure, Conrad II became involved in various struggles of insurgent peasants and heretical groups and supported the fifth crusade. It was he who initiated the process of canonization of Elisabeth of Thuringia; the canonization took place on 27 May 1235, the entire process took less than four years.
Economically he firming the independence of the diocese, especially against the Guelphs, through the redemption of lands and the construction of castles. For example, Bishop Conrad built in his tenure, the Poppenburg as a fortification, and gave them in 1226 by Count Hermann Wohldenberg fief. Likewise, Bishop Conrad II build a new residential wing in the Poppenburg.
The management of the site was secured by settlement of various orders. Thus handed Conrad II in 1223, for example, the main and baptistery of St. Martin in Sottrum the provost of the Augustinian monastery Derneburg.
The granting of full political independence to the bishopric of Hildesheim by Emperor Frederick II, was both a sign of the political successes of Conrad, but they also led to the secularization of the episcopate. This had to worry more and more about political tasks.
1240 was Conrad II the castle and town Rosenthal build.
1246 abandoned Konrad II to the episcopate and died three years later in Schönau Abbey.