!!!Eberhard II. von Regensberg

b. around 1170, 
d. Friesach (Carinthia), Nov. 30, 1246. 1196 Bishop of 
Brixen/Bressanone; 1200 Archbishop of Salzburg. E. founded the 
independent bishoprics of Chiemsee (Bavaria, 1215), Seckau (1218) and 
Lavant (1228) under Salzburg, as well as the collegiate churches of 
Voelkermarkt and Friesach, where he also founded a Premontre monastery 
in 1217. By acquiring the counties of Pongau and Lungau, E. created a 
closed territory, thus fulfilling the prerequisites for the 
territorial sovereignty of the religious principality; E. was one of 
the most important imperial princes of his time.

!Literature
C. Stoellinger, Erzbischof E. II. v. Salzburg, 
doctoral thesis, Vienna 1972.



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