Burchard (5)
Burchard (1)
a German prelate, was a monk of Lobe, who became,-in 996, bishop of Worms. He attended the Council of Selingenstadt in 1022. For many years he dwelt in a cell about two miles from Worms, where, with the assistance of Olbertus of Gemblours, he compiled his great work, the Decretorum Volumen, a collection of canons, decretals, etc. (Cologne, 1548, fol.; Paris, 1549, 8vo).
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Burchard (3)
a German prelate, lived. about the middle of the 11th century. Henry IV, emperor of Germany, made him bishop of Halberstadt in 1060, and in the following year sent him to reconcile certain differences which existed between Alexander II and Honorius II. Burchard, without regard to the wishes of his sovereign, .decided in favor of Alexander, and on his return to Germany took sides with the enemies of Henry IV, and waged a hard battle against him. But he suffered reverses, and fled into Hungary and died. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
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Burchard (4)
was a French ascetic theologian. Under the direction of St. Bernard he went to Clairvaux. In 1136 he was made abbot of Balerno. in Burgundy, and was finally transferred to the abbey of Bellevaux, where he died, April 19, 1162. He wrote a letter to Nicolas, monk of Clairvaux, which was published in the Bibliotheca Maxima Patrum (xxi, 523), also an appendix to the Life of St. Bernard, in the edition given by Mabillon (vol. ii). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
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Burchard (5)
abbot of Ursperg, in the 13th century, who died in 1226, is the author of that part of the famous Chronicle of Ursperg which contains the history of the emperor Frederick Barbarossa. and the princes of his house.