Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Conrad II (or Konrad II) (late 12th century – 18 December 1249) was Bishop of Hildesheim from 1221 to 1246.Born into the noble family of Reisenberg or Reifenberg, he studied at the University of Paris, and is said to have taught theology there as well, and to have preached against the Albigenses. He was dean of the Speyer Cathedral from 1209 to 1216, and a scholastic at the Mainz Cathedral from 1216 to 1221, during which time he oversaw the recruitment in Germany for the Fifth Crusade.He was appointed Bishop of Hildesheim in 1221, becoming part of a new wave of bishops with a reputation for scholarship, which was at the time not common in Germany. He was noted for both his ecclesiastical and temporal leadership of the bishopric. During his time as bishop, he engaged in a notable disputation with Heinrich Minneke, the provost of Neuwerk, and oversaw the canonization of the recently deceased Elisabeth of Hungary, which took place in 1235. In the same year Hildesheim's episcopal and capitular temporalities (the Stift) was imperially recognised as a state of imperial immediacy, the Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim. Conrad II died in 1249 in Schönau Abbey.. }
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- Conrad_II,_Bishop_of_Hildesheim abstract "Conrad II (or Konrad II) (late 12th century – 18 December 1249) was Bishop of Hildesheim from 1221 to 1246.Born into the noble family of Reisenberg or Reifenberg, he studied at the University of Paris, and is said to have taught theology there as well, and to have preached against the Albigenses. He was dean of the Speyer Cathedral from 1209 to 1216, and a scholastic at the Mainz Cathedral from 1216 to 1221, during which time he oversaw the recruitment in Germany for the Fifth Crusade.He was appointed Bishop of Hildesheim in 1221, becoming part of a new wave of bishops with a reputation for scholarship, which was at the time not common in Germany. He was noted for both his ecclesiastical and temporal leadership of the bishopric. During his time as bishop, he engaged in a notable disputation with Heinrich Minneke, the provost of Neuwerk, and oversaw the canonization of the recently deceased Elisabeth of Hungary, which took place in 1235. In the same year Hildesheim's episcopal and capitular temporalities (the Stift) was imperially recognised as a state of imperial immediacy, the Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim. Conrad II died in 1249 in Schönau Abbey.".