Siegfried III (Archbishop of Mainz)

Siegfried III von Eppstein (died 1249) was archbishop of Mainz from 1230 to 1249. He in 1244 granted freedom to the citizens of Mainz, who subsequently could run their affairs more independently though their own council.[2][3]; in law it remained an episcopal city[4].

He acted as regent for Conrad IV of Germany, while the Emperor Frederick II was campaigning in Italy, 1237 to 1242.[5] He was though a supporter of Pope Innocent IV[6]. He held a major synod in 1239.[7]

He added Lorsch Abbey to the archbishopric[8].

Notes

  1. ^ Kathryn Brush, The tomb slab of archbishop Siegfried III von Eppstein in Mainz cathedral : a thirteenth-century image and its interpretative context in: Grabmäler. Tendenzen der Forschung (2000) p. 33-50
  2. ^ John M. Jeep, Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia (2001), p. 486.
  3. ^ Mainz
  4. ^ André Vauchez, Richard Barrie Dobson, Michael Lapidge, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (2000), p. 892.
  5. ^ The New Cambridge Medieval History V, p. 399.
  6. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia
  7. ^ Paul B. Pixton, The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth (1995), p. 418.
  8. ^ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lorsch Abbey

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Preceded by
Siegfried II		 Archbishop of Mainz
1230–1249		 Succeeded by
Christian II