Humfrid (bishop)

Humphrey (also Hunfried, Manfried, Memfried, † February 28, 1051 in Vatterode ) was from 1023 to 1051 Archbishop of Magdeburg.

Life

Humphrey was at first a monk, then provost in Würzburg and chaplain at the imperial court. He was elected in 1023 at the behest of Henry II to the Archbishop of Magdeburg. In March 1024, he is clothed with the archiepiscopal pallium. On the side of the Emperor you can find him in 1026 in Regensburg in 1027 in Rome and he was in the latter year also at the Synod of Frankfurt, where it was decided the dispute between Mainz and Hildesheim because the pin in Gander home. Humphrey made ​​sure that the Archbishop's chair always had to be confirmed by the Pope. So he made in 1035 for a free market access in Magdeburg.

Humfrieds predecessor Gero had lain with the Bishop of Halberstadt in the dispute over the boundaries of both dioceses. These arguments were not yet over with the inauguration Humfrieds. It was only in 1040 to Humphrey could communicate with the Bishop of Halberstadt, by ceding 25 municipalities in these. An ecclesiastical buildings he had built the high choir in the cathedral and increases the Nikolai Church. He died in 1051 after it. Privileges of the diocese, both of Conrad II, and Henry III had confirm. His body was brought to Magdeburg, and was buried in the cathedral.