The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . d theempire; most of the bishops took sides with the em-perors against the popes. Berengar (1057-72) pro-moted, in opposition to Alexander II, the nominationof the Antipope Honorius at a synod held at Baslein 1061; Burkhard of Hasenburg (1071-1107) wasone of the most resolute champions of the imperialclaims and a faithful partisan of Henry IV whom heaccompanied to Canossa. Ortlieb of Froburg (1137-64) went with the Emperor Conrad III on a crusa
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . d theempire; most of the bishops took sides with the em-perors against the popes. Berengar (1057-72) pro-moted, in opposition to Alexander II, the nominationof the Antipope Honorius at a synod held at Baslein 1061; Burkhard of Hasenburg (1071-1107) wasone of the most resolute champions of the imperialclaims and a faithful partisan of Henry IV whom heaccompanied to Canossa. Ortlieb of Froburg (1137-64) went with the Emperor Conrad III on a crusadeto Palestine and took part in the Italian campaignsof Frederick Barbarossa; Ludwig of Ortlieb was alsoa partisan of the emperor and of the Antipope Pas-chal; Alexander III, therefore, deposed him in the succeeding bishops the most noteworthywere: Henry II of Thun (1238-49), who built theoldest bridge across the Rhine near Basle (replacedin 1904-06 by a new one); Henry of Isny (1275-86),a Franciscan, who after 1286 was Archbishop ofMainz, as was also his successor Peter Rich of Richen-stein (1286-96), a devoted partisan of Rudolph of. West Door, Cathedral of Basle Hapsburg; Peter of Aspelt (1296-1306), later Arch-bishop of llainz, who laboured to restore church dis-cipline in his diocese. During the fourteenth centurythe prestige of the See of Basle declined; many of thebishops involved the diocese in debt in various ways;by taking part in the political quarrels, by feuds withthe nobles living in Basle, and by quarrels with thecity, which was rapidly growing in strength. Thecity of Basle bought nearly the whole of the jurisdic-tion over itself from the impecunious bishops andmade itself almost entirely independent of episcopalsecular rule. When John II of JVIiinsingen (1335-65)was placed under the ban, along with the city ofBasle, as a partisan of Louis the Bavarian, the citizensof the town threw the papal nuncio into the Rhineand forced the clergy to continue the c
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