EVERARDUS I, Saint. — Born c. 1085 from the noble line of Biburg and Hilpoltstein; died at Salzburg on 22 June 1164. A Benedictine monk at Prüfening near Ratisbon, 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 Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III, Everardus was the most steadfast defender of papal authority in Germany and an open opponent of the antipope Victor IV. He strongly supported the reforms of his friend Gerhoch of Reichersberg. He was venerated by the people as a saint (his feast being on 22 June), but the process of his canonization, begun in 1469, has not yet been concluded.
Bibl.: The earliest Life (c. 1180) in MGH, Scriptores, XI, pp. 77-84; Miracula (c. 1280), ibid., pp. 97-102; also in Anal. Bull., 20 (1902), pp. 177-80; Acta SS. Iunii, IV, Venice 1743, pp. 260-69. For German literature cf. Ch. Greiner, Spätling in LThK, III, col. 311.