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Pilgrim (died
25 August 1036) was the
archbishop of Cologne (
1021-
1036) and
archchancellor of
Italy (from
1031) in the
Holy Roman Empire, a dignity he obtained for all his successors.
His origins are not known with certainty, he either descends from the counts of
Isengau or Margrave
Aribo of Austria.
He was a warrior-prelate and accompanied both Emperors
Henry II and
Conrad II on their expeditions to the
Mezzogiorno, even being given command of a division of the imperial army on its march south through the
Italian Peninsula in
1024.
From
1016 to
1021, Pilgrim was
provost in the
Cathedral of Bamberg. On
29 June 1021, Henry II appointed him archbishop of Cologne and, on
Easter 1028, he crowned Henry's son
Henry III as
king of Germany in
Aachen.
On the 1024 campaign, he travelled with his army along the western coast through the
Papal States. Charged with arresting the
abbot of
Montecassino, Atenulf, and the
prince of
Capua,
Pandulf IV, he besieged Capua after bypassing the great Mediterranean abbey, which Atenulf had abandoned in haste. As Pandulf no longer had the loyalty of the populace and the
Norman mercenaries, the city gates were soon thrown open to the archbishop and Pandulf was forced to submit. Instead of immediately turning eastwards to
Troia, where the rest of the imperial host was massing, he turned to
Salerno and began a siege. The fear he struck in the heart of the
Duke of Naples,
Sergius IV, caused him too to submit, without even the threat of a siege.
After only a month besieging Salerno, he let up in exchange for hostages and joined the rest of Emperor Henry's army. The emperor almost executed Pandulf, but the archbishop intervened to save Pandulf's life. The subsequent siege was a failure and the armies returned to
Germany.
Pilgrim acquired for Cologne the right of minting coins for Cologne and
Andernach. He was buried in the
cathedral of St. Aposteln in Cologne.
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