page_title: Berengar II of Sulzbach
section_title: Baumburg Abbey
hierarchical_section_title: Berengar II of Sulzbach / Religious foundations / Baumburg Abbey
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Aufnahme aus dem Jahr 1993 (?). Selbst erstellt. GNU-FDL. --Lou Gruber 22:05, 11. Sep 2004 (CEST)
context_page_description: Count Berengar II of Sulzbach, sometimes known as Berengar I of Sulzbach, was Count of Sulzbach in Bavaria.
  Berengar was a leader of the reform party. He sided with Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy in opposition to Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and supported Henry V in his successful rebellion against his father. He is known as the founder of several abbeys.
context_section_description: In 1102 Paschal gave Berengar the privilege of founding Baumburg Abbey.
  In 1104–06 Berengar was deeply involved in the struggles of Henry V against his father Emperor Henry IV, and was unable to implement the wishes of his wife Adelheid von Lechsgemünd to spend the inheritance from her first two marriages to establish a Reform congregation.
  Adelheid therefore felt compelled before her death (1104/1105) to place her husband and a dozen selected ministers under oath to establish a regular canons monastery to the north of lake Chiemsee and to annex the existing church of St. Margaret in Baumburg.
  But to found two monasteries within three or four years and to participate in the reform of the Kastl Abbey at the same time gave him great difficulty.
  He therefore followed the urging of his church officials and expanded Baumburg with goods from Berchtesgaden so he would have at least one well-equipped monastery, and would meet the wishes of his mother and first wife.
  In 1107, or at the latest in 1109, Eberwin and his monks from Berchtesgaden founded Baumburg Abbey in the north of the present Traunstein district.
  Later, probably around 1116, Eberwin  returned to Berchtesgaden where the first major land clearing was undertaken and the Augustinians settled permanently. 
  The independence of Berchtesgaden was not secure, since Gottschalk (ca. 1120–1163), provost of Baumburg, was not willing to accept the loss of the Berchtesgaden assets.
  After Berengar died in 1125, Gottschalk challenged the legality of the separation and asked Archbishop Conrad I of Salzburg for an injunction to re-merge the properties.
  Conrad finally confirmed the independence of both monasteries in 1136, which was confirmed by Pope Innocent II in 1142.
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