Conrad of Pfullingen

Conrad of Pfullingen, sometimes Cuno of Pfullingen[lower-alpha 1] (1035/1040 – 1 June 1066), was the archbishop of Trier (as Cuno I) briefly in 1066.[1]

He belonged to a noble family of Pfullingen.[2] Prior to his elevation to the archbishopric he had been the provost of Cologne Cathedral.[1] His uncle, Archbishop Anno of Cologne, in a bid to consolidate the supremacy of his church over Trier, invested Conrad with the archbishopric at court in May 1066, without the consent of the people or clergy of Trier.[1] (Anno was the regent for the young Henry IV at the time.) On 17 May, on his way to Trier, Conrad was arrested by Count Theoderic, advocate of Trier. After a fortnight in prison, he was murdered by four of Theoderic's vassals at Ürzig on 1 June.[3][4] Nobody was ever punished for the murder, and the people of Trier elected Udo of Nellenburg as archbishop in Conrad's place.[1] In 1073, Theoderic went on a barefoot pilgrimage to Jerusalem to atone for his sin.[5]

Notes
  1. German: Kuno (Konrad) von Pfullingen
  1. Robinson 2000, pp. 116–17.
  2. Endrulat 1882.
  3. Tellenbach 1993, p. 179.
  4. Gawlik 1980.
  5. Hamilton 2001, p. 173.

Sources
  • Endrulat, Bernhard (1882), "Konrad (Kuno) I., Erzbischof von Trier", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), vol. 16, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 627
  • Hamilton, Sarah (2001). The Practice of Penance, 900–1050. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
  • Gawlik, Alfred (1980), "Konrad I.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 12, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 530; (full text online)
  • Robinson, Ian S. (2000). Henry IV of Germany. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Tellenbach, Gerd (1993). The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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