Albrecht von Hohenberg

Albrecht von Hohenberg (c. 1303–1359) spent his career between emperor and pope. A son of Count Rudolf I of Hohenberg, he was a canon of Konstanz trained in canon law at Paris. An imperial minority elected him bishop of Konstanz, but the pope backed another man, and he held the disputed see only in 1334–1335.

Louis the Bavarian made him chancellor and imperial governor in Alsace, where he stopped pogroms against the Jews in 1338 and 1340. In 1342 Clement VI won him to the papal side, yet his return to Konstanz lacked papal approval, and the 1356 election failed.

Clement gave him Freising in 1349, overriding the chapter's right to elect; consecrated at Brugg in 1351, he sold many estates to mend the diocese's finances. He died at Stein am Rhein on 25 April 1359.