Pilgrim I (archbishop of Salzburg)
Pilgrim I. († October 8 923 ), probably from the noble Pilgrimiden or Aribonen was an archbishop of Salzburg and abbot of the monastery of St. Peter in the 10th century.
Life
Pilgrims reign began under difficult conditions. While his predecessors were all appointed as bishops to the king or emperor Erzkapellan when he assumes, for the time being another bishop Erzkapellan and Pilgrim was only 912
Particularly difficult made the position of the Archbishop, the repeated expulsion of the Bavarian Duke Arnulf I. He had opposed against the 914 took place in November 911 choice of twenty-four years of Konrad I, King ( who then Arnulf's mother later married ) and was subsequently expelled from Bavaria. In his first return 916 Arnulf was beaten bloody and could only escape after re 917/18 gradually assert from Salzburg again as Bavarian rulers. In the final battle with King Conrad Arnulf won, Konrad was severely wounded and died as a result of the injury. His successor was the Saxon Duke Henry I., but was only able to push through 921 in Bavaria, where Arnulf had now usurped royal rights.
Pilgrim I, who had taken a cautious royalist attitude towards Arnulf could be so limited and shall act only within its narrower scope of power. The abundance of power archbishops of Salzburg with its wide sphere of activity in Pannonia was smashed, the archbishops were no longer appointed by the king, but solely by the Bavarian Duke. The history of Salzburg was for a long time to a small, little important part of Bavarian history. Well known are probably very numerous barter Pilgrims, which primarily related to church property in the area of today's Bavaria. This Pilgrim wanted above all make his territory closed. 909 received about Pilgrim of King Louis the Child, the abbey Traunsee (presumably in what is now the district of Altmünster ) awarded for life and the Salzburg church received from the king the royal court Salzburghofen (now Freilassing ) together with the associated fees from Reichenhall.