Liemar

Liemar († May 16, 1101 in Bremen) was archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg from 1072 to 1101.

Liemar came from a Bavarian Ministerialengeschlecht and was a canon of St. SIFTS Simonis and Juda to Goslar. At Pentecost 1072 proclaimed King Henry IV Liemar the successor of Archbishop Adalbert, who died two months earlier. The pallium gave him Pope Alexander II

Liemar pursued as its predecessor Adalbert an ajar to the interests of the Reich policy. During the Investiture Controversy he stood at the side of the Emperor Henry IV, for which he was deposed and excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII. During his imperial service Liemar moved six times over the Alps, and took Henry IV at Canossa in part.

During his tenure as archbishop, he had the Bremen Cathedral precinct with a Vallo firmissimo ( strong Wall ' ) fix, but its rare presence suffered the territorial development of the congregation as a whole - as it was in the 29 years of his tenure, only 11 years in Bremen, during the first 13 years of his tenure, even for only two years. 1088 came Liemar in a raid on the camp of the Emperor at the castle peers in the Hand Ekbert of Meissen. He could buy out only against the payment of 300 marks of silver, and the donation of Bremen pin bailiwick. The pin Bailiwick then passed into the hands of the counts of Stade, the Saxon opponents of the Archdiocese. The establishment of the archbishopric of Lund 1104, against which Adalbert had previously fought constantly, Liemar could not prevent. The Scandinavian mission area had thus become independent of Bremen.

The chronicler Adam of Bremen Hamburg dedicated his Ecclesiastical History of the Archbishop Liemar.

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