Liemar, Archbishop of Bremen

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Liemar (died 1101) was archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen from 1072 to 1101, and an important figure of the early Investiture Contest.

He was a supporter of Emperor Henry IV from 1073[1]. In 1074 the papal legates Gerald of Ostia and Hubert of Palestrina put pressure on him to hold a local synod; he resisted, was suspended, and by 1075 his views against papal interference with bishops had hardened.[2]. With Benno II of Osnabrück he commissioned the anti-papal polemic of Wido of Osnabrück[3], around 1085.

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  1. ^ Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the the Twelfth Century (1988), p. 111.
  2. ^ I. S. Robinson, Authority and Resistance in the Investiture Contest: The Polemical Literature of the Late Eleventh Century, pp. 126, 169.
  3. ^ Robinson, p. 152, 159.

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