Hartwig of Uthlede (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Hartwig of Uthlede (died 3 November 1207) was - as Hartwig II - Prince-Archbishop of Bremen (1185-1190 and de facto again 1192-1207) and one of the originators of the Livonian Crusade. Coming from a family of the Bremian Ministerialis at Uthlede, he was a canon of Bremen Cathedral and a clerk of Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony, House of Guelph, before becoming prince-archbishop in 1185. When the Bremian cathedral chapter elected him for prince-archbishop, due to the competitive politics within Germany at the time, this was regarded a Guelphic triumph.