EBERHARD I, Saint. - B. c. 1085 of the noble lineage of Biburg and Hilpoltstein; d. at Salzburg on 22 June 1164. A Benedictine monk at Prüfening near Regensburg, from 1133 he was abbot of the monastery of Biburg founded by his brothers; on 11 May 1147 he became archbishop of Salzburg.

In the great struggle between the emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III, E. was the most tireless defender of the pontifical authority in Germany and an open opponent of the antipope Victor IV. He strongly assisted the reforms of his friend Gerhoch of Reichersberg. He was venerated as a saint by the people (his feast on 22 June), but the process of his canonization, introduced in 1469, is not yet closed.

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BIBL.: The oldest Vita (c. 1180) in MGH, Scriptores, XI, pp. 77-84; Miracula (c. 1280), ibid., pp. 97-103; also in Anal. Bull., 20 (1902), pp. 177-80; Acta SS. Iunii, IV, Venice 1743, pp. 260-69. For the German literature cf. Ch. Greinz, s.v. in LThK, III, col. 311.

Lucchesio Späthig

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