Konrad von Urach, Abt von Clairvaux

The necrology of Tennenbach names "Conradi cardinalis, monachi Villariensis in Brabantia et Berchtoldi abbatis huius loci" as children of "Ego com de Urach…secundus dictus mit dem Bart dominus in Friburg et Agnes eiusdem coniunx ducis Bertoldi de Zaeringen V et ultimi soror". The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Conradum canonicum Sancti Lamberti, qui postea fuit abbas Clarevallis et Cistercii, deinde cardenalis et post in Franciam et Alamannium legatus, et abbatem Bertoldum de Salem et fratres eorum et sorores" as children of "comiti Huguenoni de Eura in Suavia" & his wife. Provost of St Cassius, Bonn 1192. Elected Bishop of Liège 1192. Deacon of St Lambert, Liège 1195/97. Monk before 1200. Abbot of Villers 1209/14. Abbot of Clairvaux 1214. Cardinal, Bishop of Porto and San Ruffino, and Papal legate in France and Germany 1219. The Chronicon Montis Serreni records the visit to Germany in early Aug 1225 of "cardinalis quidam Cisterciensis ordinis…cuius pater comes de Urah Egeno", specifying that he was "Portuensis de Sancte Rufino episcopus" and head of all the churches in France and Germany. Elected Bishop of Besançon 1220.