Conrad of Pfullingen
Kuno (Konrad ) of Pfullingen, (c. 1016 Pfullingen, † June 1, 1066 in Ürzig ) was at the instigation of Archbishop Anno II of Cologne, his uncle, was appointed Archbishop of Trier in 1066. The citizens of Trier and vassals ( ministry officials ) felt left out in this decision and expressed their displeasure in the capture and murder of the Elect.
After 1066 Archbishop ( Ebf. ) Eberhard on April 15, had died of Trier, struck Abp. Anno II of Cologne, his nephew Kuno for the vacant Erzstuhl ago. Kuno came from the family of the Counts of Pfullingen [ Swabia ] and was then provost of the cathedral of Cologne. Since were passed over for the appointment by Emperor Henry IV, the population, the nobility and the clergy in Trier, was born in the city of great displeasure and was expected to interfere with the establishment of Kuno. So bishop Einhard II of Katzenellenbogen was awarded the contract to provide armed escort Kuno.
To the north of Trier, Bitburg, beat Bf Einhard and Abp. Kuno on May 17, 1066 to camp for the night. On the morning of May 18, 1066 fell Count Theodoric ( Vogt and at the same time winner of the Count's castle Trier's Office ) and his men the camp, deprived Einhard and took Kuno caught. Kuno was then eastward abducted and imprisoned in the castle Ürzig. After two weeks of captivity four soldiers received on 1 June 1066 ordered to assassinate Kuno. After he was overthrown three times by a projection distance of the castle and was still alive, Kuno was beheaded. His body remained unburied for the next 30 days, until farmers in the village Loesnich found him.
After a preliminary funeral Kunos in Loesnich on the Moselle his body, at the instigation Bishop Theodoric of Verdun was transferred to the monastery church of the Benedictine Abbey of Tholey and buried there on 10 July 1066. At the instigation of the then Abp. of Mainz, Siegfried, Kuno I. was canonized and excommunicated his murderers.
As Archbishop Anno II, maybe pleased because of its diverse political activities, neither the Pope nor the King great popularity, the murder of Kuno for the perpetrators remained largely inconsequential.