The only documented facts about him are his name, the details of his consecration and the date of his death.[2][3] In the absence of facts a traditional account of his death developed, to the effect that he died on 14 June in either 970 or 972 from a fall from his horse, but this is not supported by any evidence.[2]
↑ for example, in Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: Die deutschen Bischöfe bis zum Ende des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts (Band 2), Wiegand, Leipzig 1858, p. 223 (Google books)
Machatschek, Eduard: Geschichte der Bischöfe des Hochstiftes Meissen in chronologischer Reihenfolge: Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Culturgeschichte der Mark Meissen und des Herzog und Kurfürstenthums Sachsens. Nach dem Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae, anderen glaubwürdigen Quellen und bewährten Geschichtswerken bearbeitet (pp.11–19). C. C. Meinhold, Dresden 1884 (in German)
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