!!!Lorcher Fälschungen

Lorcher Faelschungen ("Lorch Forgeries"), five papal documents forged, 
or fraudulently modified, by Bishop  Pilgrim I. of Passau between 
971 and 985 in his capacity as scribe of the Royal Chancellery and a 
letter addressed by the bishop to Pope Benedict VI (VII); his 
intention was to make Passau the legal successor to the antique 
archdiocese of Lorch (Lauriacum), to enable its separation from the 
archdiocese of Salzburg and to win for Pilgrim the rank of 
Metropolitan who would have jurisdiction over bishoprics to be founded 
in Hungary and Moravia. Pilgrim's efforts were to no avail, but 
continued to influence the appreciation of Passau's historical 
standing well into the 20th century. H. Koller believes that the 
forgeries were not made until much later, i.e. the time of Friedrich 
Barbarossa in the 12th century.

!Literature
H. Fichtenau, Zu den Urkundenfaelschungen Pilgrims von 
Passau, Beitraege zur Mediaevistik, Bd. 2, 1972; F.-R. Erkens, 
in: Lexikon des Mittelalters, vol. 6, 1993.


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