Egilbert

Egilbert of places castle, also Engelbert or healing Bert of Rothenburg (c. 1040 probably in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, † 1101 in Trier ) was Archbishop of Trier from 1079 until his death. He was a partisan of the Emperor Henry IV during the Investiture Controversy. To thank the Emperor raised him to the Lord Chancellor of Gaul. In contrast to his predecessors and successors, he was due to his emperor without partiality relations with the papacy and thus had no mediating role as those held.

Under his patronage was in 1093, the foundation stone of the monastery Laach by the Count Palatine of the Rhine and imperial regent, Henry II of Laach, laid, his name is mentioned in the foundation charter. Archbishop Egilbert supported the Foundation with the deployment of the first monks from the former Trier Benedictine imperial abbey of St. Maximin for colonization of the resulting monastery.

In his time, the first anti-Jewish pogroms fell after 1095 in Germany during the Crusades. In May / June 1096 he tried Trier Jews to protect them against the crusaders and preached for their protection in the cathedral. But he could not prevent her murder.