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| caption = Berengar II of Sulzbach (c. 1080-3. December 1125) with hunting falcon under the organ loft above his coat of arms in [[Kastl Abbey]]
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'''Count Berengar II of Sulzbach''' (c.
Berengar was a leader of the reform party. He sided with [[Pope Gregory VII]] during the [[Investiture Controversy]] in opposition to [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor]], and supported [[Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry V]] in his successful rebellion against his father. He is known as the founder of several abbeys.
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Berengar's grandfather was Gebhard I, Count of Sulzbach (died 1071), who married the daughter of Count Berengar I of Sulzbach.
Gebhard I may have been the son of [[Herman IV, Duke of Swabia]] (died 28 July 1038), but this is not certain.{{sfn|Hlawitschka|2006|pp=
Gebhard I was father of Gebhard II.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
Berengar was the son of Count Gebhard II of Sulzbach (died 1085) and Irmgard of Rott (died 14 June 1101).{{sfn|Koch-Sternfeld|1815|p=12}}
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His daughter [[Gertrude of Sulzbach|Gertrude]] was the wife of King [[Conrad III of Germany]].
Her sister Luitgarde married [[Godfrey II, Count of Louvain]] and Duke of Lower Lorraine.{{sfn|Dopsch|1991|pp=214,221}}
In 1143 his daughter [[Bertha of Sulzbach|Bertha]], later called Irene, married the Emperor [[Manuel I Komnenos]] of Byzantium (c.
She died about 1158.{{sfn|Smith|1880|p=822}}
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==Religious foundations==
As one of the leaders of the ecclesiastical reform circle in [[Upper Bavaria]], [[Swabia]] and [[Saxony]] Berengar was one of the founders of the Abbeys of [[Berchtesgaden Provostry|Berchtesgaden]], [[Kastl Abbey|Kastl]], and [[Baumburg Abbey|Baumberg]].{{sfn|Albrecht|1995|pp=
===Berchtesgaden Provostry===
[[File:Watzmann Berchtesgaden.jpg|thumb|[[Berchtesgaden]] ]]
Berengar's first monastery foundation, the [[Berchtesgaden Provostry]], was commissioned by his mother Irmgard of Rott. According to legend, it was founded in fulfillment of a vow of thanksgiving for the salvation of his father, Gebhard II of Sulzbach, after a hunting accident at the rock on which the Berchtesgaden Collegiate Church stands today.
His mother Irmgard owned Berchtesgaden from her first marriage with Count Engelbert V of Chiemgau, and as his widow had made a vow to have a house built for use by an "assembly of clergy of communal life" ("congregatio clericorum communis vite"). Due to various worldly affairs Irmgard did not have the time to found the congregation, so shortly before her death she commissioned Berengar with the task, to promote his and her salvation.{{sfn|Weinfurter|Brugger|Dopsch|Kramml|1991|pp=
In the year of his mother's death, 1101, Berengar appointed the canon Eberwin as the first provost.
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Berengar and his half-brother Kuno von Horburg-Lechsgemünd then requested papal confirmation for the founding of the monastery.
Probably in 1102 and no later than 1105 Kuno von Horburg and Eberwin traveled to Rome on behalf of Berengar.{{sfn|Brugger|Dopsch|Kramml|1991|p=228}}
[[Pope Paschal II]] had very likely on 7 April 1102 placed the Count's monastery under his protection.{{sfn|Feulner|1986|p=8}}{{sfn|Albrecht|1995|pp=
He confirmed this privilege in writing to Berengar and Kuno von Horburg.{{efn|''Paschalis episcopus, servus servorum dei, dilectis filiis Berengano et Cononi comitibus salutem et apostolicam benedictionem...'' (Paschal, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to his beloved sons Berengar and Kuno, counts, greetings and apostolic benediction...) (Anm. 45){{sfn|Weinfurter|Brugger|Dopsch|Kramml|1991|p=239}} }}{{sfn|Weinfurter|Brugger|Dopsch|Kramml|1991|p=239}}
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[[File:Kloster Baumburg.jpg|thumb|[[Baumburg Abbey]] ]]
In 1102 Paschal gave Berengar the privilege of founding [[Baumburg Abbey]].{{sfn|Weinfurter|Brugger|Dopsch|Kramml|1991|p=230}}
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Adelheid therefore felt compelled before her death (1104/1105) to place her husband and a dozen selected ministers under oath to establish a regular canons monastery to the north of lake [[Chiemsee]] and to annex the existing church of St. Margaret in Baumburg.
But to found two monasteries within three or four years and to participate in the reform of the Kastl Abbey at the same time gave him great difficulty.
He therefore followed the urging of his church officials and expanded Baumburg with goods from Berchtesgaden so he would have at least one well-equipped monastery, and would meet the wishes of his mother and first wife.{{sfn|Weinfurter|Brugger|Dopsch|Kramml|1991|pp=
In 1107, or at the latest in 1109, Eberwin and his monks from Berchtesgaden founded Baumburg Abbey in the north of the present [[Traunstein district]].{{sfn|Weinfurter|Brugger|Dopsch|Kramml|1991|p=246}}
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|journal=Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins|issue=154 |year=2006}}
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|last=Koch-Sternfeld|first=Joseph Ernst von|title=Geschichte des Fürstenthums Berchtesgaden und seiner Salzwerke: In drey Büchern. 1056
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gHNBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP12|accessdate=2013-12-07|year=1815|publisher=Mayer}}
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|last=Robinson|first=I. S.|title=Henry IV of Germany
|date=2003-12-04|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-54590-7}}
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