What is "burchard"

Burchard was Bishop of Utrecht between 1100 and 1112. He was dean in Strasbourg before he was appointed as bishop by Emperor Henry IV in 1100. He supported the Emperor during the investiture controversy but he did not play a major part in it. He gave Count Floris II of West Frisia, the title Count of Holland in 1101.

Burchard was interred in the Cathedral of Saint Martin, Utrecht.

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Burchard (and all variant spellings) may refer to :

Burchard ( Bouchard, Burckhart, Burkhart, Burkard, Burkhard, Burkert, Borchardt, Burckhardt and variants, Old English Burgheard) are both Germanic given names and surnames, from Burg "castle" and hart "hard". Notable people with the name include :

Burchard (died 20 August 1031) was the archbishop of Vienne from 1001 until his death. He was also the count of the Viennois from 1023, the first bishop of Vienne to hold secular power in the county simultaneously.

Burchard belonged to the Anselmid lineage. He was the eldest son of Anselm (died after 1002), a nobleman described in documents as an "illustrious man" (vir inluster), and his wife, Aldiud, who had been the concubine, about 964, of King Conrad of Burgundy. Anselm and Aldiud were married around 970. Burchard's younger brothers were Anselm, bishop of Aosta, and Ulric, who was married to a woman named Girelda. In addition, the woman named Ancilla who married Count Humbert I of Savoy was probably Burchard's sister. In early 1019, Burchard removed Humbert as advocatus of the archdiocese of Vienne and gave the position to his brother Ulric. On 19 August 1019, Burchard and his brother Ulric donated land in the Genevois to the church of Saint Peter in Vienne for the sake of their parents' souls.

Through his mother, Burchard was the half-brother of Archbishop Burchard II of Lyon, Conrad's illegitimate son. He probably owed his election to the see of Vienne to royal preferment. On 14 September 1023, King Rudolf III and Queen Ermengard granted the county of the Viennois to the archbishop of Vienne. With this acquisition, Burchard controlled the fiscal lands of the county as well as its castle. Rudolf had previously bestowed the county, along with that of Sermorens, on Ermengard in 1011, shortly after their marriage. The county of Sermorens was not ceded to the archbishop. The French historian Georges de Manteyer advanced the theory that Burchard created the counties of Maurienne and Albon out of the Viennois and enfeoffed them to the families that would be the Savoyards and Dauphins in 1023.

Burchard was regarded a proponent of the Peace of God movement and his epitaph reads:

Defending lambs and bravely pressing enemies,
Battling and making the dangerous troops bow.
He led them in the palace to the victorious prize of God,
With which perpetual peace quietly thrives.

Burchard or Bouchard or Buckard or Burchard Aosta (died after 10 July 1068), was bishop of Aosta (1025-1032) and Archbishop of Lyon (1033–1034), under the name of Burchard III, and finally prior of the territorial abbey of Saint Maurice. Burchard was a son of Humbert I, Count of Savoy and Aosta and his wife Auxilia, who may originate from Aosta and who would be the sister of Anselm of Aosta, bishop from 994-1025.

Burchard was jointly involved with his father in the management of the Aosta Valley since April 8, 1022 perhaps as coadjutor before to ensure the succession of his maternal uncle as bishop of Aosta in 1025. He was mentioned as bishop of Aosta on October 19, 1024 in a deed of gift alongside his father Humbert, then on 10 March 1026 Buchard was transferred to the archbishopric of Lyon which proves the assertion of regional power of his family. According to the chronicler Raoul Glaber, who specifies that he is the nephew of his predecessor, Burchard II of Lyons in the seat of Lyon, he takes the side, with Gerold Geneva Odo II in the succession dispute King, who opposed his uncle, the Emperor Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II, called the Salic, Duke of Franconia. They are defeated in 1034 by his father, Humbert, who leads an army of empereur. He was captured and driven from Lyon by imperial troops. Released in 1039 by Henry III on condition that he withdraw into territory of Saint Maurice Abbey, he became "Agannensis abbatia Abbas'., where he is mentioned for the last time in an act of July 10, 1068 although the necrology of the primatial St. John Lyon lists his death as occurring on June 10, 1046.