Liemar(unknown – 16 May 1101, in Bremen) wasarchbishop of Hamburg-Bremenfrom 1072 to 1101, and an important figure of the earlyInvestiture Contest.
He was a supporter ofEmperor Henry IVfrom 1073.[1]In 1074 thepapal legatesGerald of OstiaandHubert of Palestrinaput pressure on him to hold a localsynod;he resisted, was suspended, and by 1075 his views against papal interference with bishops had hardened.[2]In 1080, he attended theSynod of Brixenthat condemnedPope Gregory VII.[3]WithBenno II of Osnabrückhe commissioned the anti-papal polemic ofWido of Osnabrückaround 1085.[4]Liemar was one of many bishops who was irked by Gregory VII's encroachment of episcopal autonomy. In a letter to Bishop Hezilo of Hildesheim, Liemar complained that Gregory VII was ordering his bishops about 'as though they were his bailiffs'.[5]
Notes
edit- ^Uta-Renate Blumenthal,The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century(1988), p. 111.
- ^I. S. Robinson,Authority and Resistance in the Investiture Contest: The Polemical Literature of the Late Eleventh Century,pp. 126, 169.
- ^H. E. J. Cowdrey(1998),Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085(Clarendon Press), p. 201ff.
- ^Robinson, p. 152, 159.
- ^I.S. Robinson, Gregory VII and episcopal authority.
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