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• Adalbero (or Adalbert), Bishop of Augsburg

the twentieth bishop OF WURZBURG (1045-1090), was born about. the year 1010. He was educated at Wurzburg, and succeeded his uncle in 1045. In the' struggle of the papal see with Henry IV he sided, with the former, and on that account was often obliged to leave the country. He richly endowed the monastery at Lambach, which had been founded by his father, and died there Oct. 6,1090. In the 12th centur many miracles were ascribed to him. See Himmelstein, Reihenfolge der Bischofe von irzburg (1843), p. 61-66; Archiv des historischen Vereins fur Unternfanken, 1861, xv, 179-259; Schmietler, Breve Chronicon Monasterii B. M. V. Lumbacensis 0. S. B. (Lentii, 1865); Argumenta Cultus B. Adalberonis (Viennae, 1868); Hergenrother, in Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. s.v. (B.P.)