Lamprecht von Brunn

Lamprecht von Brunn, in French Lambert de Buren, was born around 1320–1330 into a lower noble family of northern Alsace and owed his career to his own ability rather than his family's standing. From 1354 he was abbot of Gengenbach, then bishop in turn of Brixen, Speyer and Strasbourg.

In 1374 he moved to Bamberg as prince-bishop, became a close adviser of Emperor Charles IV and later chancellor of King Wenceslaus. He founded Nuremberg's Carthusian monastery in 1381, and in 1390 ended the Giechburg inheritance dispute, the last major enlargement of the Bamberg bishopric.

His beer tax, the Bierpfennig, was known as the Lambertiner for centuries. In 1395 he founded a hospital at Scheßlitz and gave it his library. He resigned in January 1399 and died at Forchheim on 17 July.