Rainald of Dassel [SEP] position held
Rainald of Dassel
Rainald of Dassel (c. 1120 – 14 August 1167) was Archbishop of Cologne and Archchancellor of Italy from 1159 until his death. A close advisor to the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick Barbarossa, he had an important influence on Imperial politics, mainly in the Italian conflict of Guelphs and Ghibellines.
Life.
Rainald was a scion of the Counts of Dassel, who had inherited large estates in the Suilbergau of Saxony upon the extinction of the ducal Billung dynasty in 1106. A younger son of the affluent count
Medieval genealogies: Rainald von Dassel
- Swen Holger Brunsch: "Rainald von Dassel" in the Portal of Rhenish History
- Rainald von Dassel als Stifter des Johannishospitals in Hildesheim – Eine Stiftungsurkunde vom Jahre 1161
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