User:Dwlehm1/Bernold of Constance

Intro
Bernold of Constance (born in Swabia 1054 – died in Schaffhausen, September 16, 1100) was a chronicler and writer of tracts, and a defender of the Gregorian Church reforms of Pope Gregory VII.

Life
He was educated at Constance under the renowned teacher Bernard of Constance. He attended the Lenten Synod of Rome, in 1079, at which Berengarius of Tours retracted his errors. Remaining in Italy till 1084, he likely attended the Council of Piacenza, on the proceedings of which he is the main authority.

Once more at Constance, he attended the ordination of bishop Gebhard and was ordained priest himself by the papal legate, Cardinal Otto of Ostia. In 1086 he went with Bishop Gebhard as counsellors to Herman, contender for the Imperial crown, at the Battle of Pleichfeld. About the same time, he entered first the Benedictine Abbey of St Blasien in the Black Forest and then, in 1091, the Abbey of All Saints nearby in Schaffhausen, where he died.