Archbishop of Mainz
Which position did Conrad of Wittelsbach hold between Nov 1198 and Feb 1199?
Conrad of Wittelsbach Conrad of Wittelsbach ( c . 1120/1125 – 25 October 1200 ) was the Archbishop of Mainz ( as Conrad I ) and Archchancellor of Germany from 20 June 1161 to 1165 and again from 1183 to his death . He was also a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church . The son of Otto IV , Count of Wittelsbach , and brother of Otto I of Bavaria , he studied in Salzburg and Paris . At the Council of Lodi in 1161 , Frederick Barbarossa appointed him archbishop of Mainz to end a schism between Rudolf of Zähringen and Christian von Buch in that see . At that same council , Barbarossa appointed Victor IV antipope in opposition to Pope Alexander III . After Victors death in 1164 , Rainald of Dassel , the archbishop of Cologne , chose as antipope Paschal III at Lucca . Conrad refused to support the new antipope and consequently fell out with Barbarossa . He fled to France and then Rome in 1165 and his see was bestowed on Christian von Buch , though Alexander III still recognised him as legal archbishop . On 18 December , the pope made him cardinal priest of San Marcello al Corso and then cardinal bishop of Sabina . The pope later created him bishop of Sora in Campania . Conrad fled before Christian took Rome with an imperial army . By the Treaty of Venice of 1177 , the pope was constrained to recognise Christian as the legitimate archbishop of Mainz , but Conrad was compensated with the archdiocese of Salzburg ( as Conrad III ) . Conrad never , however , ceased to regard himself as anything but the rightful archbishop of Mainz . When Christian died in 1183 , Conrad could again assume his archiepiscopal responsibilities in that city , which , in 1160 , had been deprived by the emperor of its charter for the murder of the archbishop Arnold of Selenhofen . The fortifications had then been levelled , but Conrad rebuilt them and renovated Mainz Cathedral . The Diet of Pentecost 1184 on the Maarau , called the largest feast of the Middle Ages , also fell under his aegis . In April or May 1187 , at the Diet of Gelnhausen , Conrad convinced his fellow bishops to support the emperors cause against Rome . In March 1188 , a Court of Christ was held in Mainz at which the Third Crusade was announced . Conrad led an army on Crusade in 1197 , the same year the Emperor Henry VI died . He left his lands on 17 April 1197 . Conrad , with the other imperial princes , had elected his infant son Frederick king in 1196 . While Conrad was in the Holy Land acting as legate for Pope Celestine III , he intervened in the princely succession of Antioch . He tried to get Raymond-Roupen recognised as the successor of Bohemond III instead of Bohemond IV . On 6 January 1199 , with papal permission , Conrad crowned Leo II , Lord of the Mountains , King of Armenia as a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire . Later that year , he returned equipped with new legatine power by Pope Innocent III . He succeeded in establishing an armistice in April 1200 between the competing factions in Germany , namely the Hohenstaufen and the Welf . As Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina , he signed the papal bulls issued between 18 March 1166 and 6 November 1199 . After the election to the papacy of Cardinal Ubaldo Allucingoli ( Pope Lucius III ) in 1181 he became new dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals . He was returning from the Kingdom of Hungary in early October back to Mainz , after reconciling the two brothers , Emeric of Hungary and Andrew II of Hungary over their political rivalry , when he died on the way from Nuremberg to Würzburg in Rietfeld or Riedfeld near Neustadt on the Aisch , in what was then Hungary . He was buried in the cathedral he had expanded .