Wezilo

{{Short description|German archbishop}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Wezilo | image = Wezilo-erzbischof-von-mainz.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | order = | office = Archbishop of Mainz | term_start = 1084 | term_end = 1088 | monarch = | predecessor = Siegfried I | successor = Ruthard of Mainz | | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 1088 | death_place = | resting_place = Mainz Cathedral | resting_place_coordinates = {{coord|49|59|56|N|8|16|26|E|type:landmark|display=inline}} | known_for = Imperial support in the Investiture Controversy | footnotes = }} '''Wezilo''', died 1088, was Archbishop of Mainz from 1084 to 1088. He was a leading supporter of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV in the Investiture Controversy, and of antipope Clement III.

A priest in Halberstadt, Wezilo owed his promotion to the support of Henry IV. In 1085 he negotiated on behalf of the emperor with the papal legate, the future Pope Urban II, and in the same year he was convicted of simony and excommunicated by the pro-papal Synod of Quedlinburg.<ref>{{cite book |author=Patricia Skinner |chapter=From Pisa to the Patriarchate: Chapters in the Life of (Arch)bishop Daibert |editor=Patricia Skinner |title=Challenging the Boundaries of Medieval History: The Legacy of Timothy Reuter |publisher=Brepols |year=2009 |page=158 |isbn=978-2-503-52359-0 |author-link=Patricia Skinner (historian) }}</ref>

In May 1087 the forces of Clement III and "the imperialist prefect Wezilo" forced Pope Victor III to retreat from Rome.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/pdfs/haych3.pdf |author=David J. Hay |title=The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046–1115 |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2008 |page=121 }}</ref>

Wezilo was buried in Mainz Cathedral.

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{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{s-bef |before=Siegfried I }} {{s-ttl |title=Archbishop of Mainz |years=1084–1088 }} {{s-aft |after=Ruthard of Mainz }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}

Category:Year of birth unknown Category:1088 deaths Category:Archbishops of Mainz Category:Investiture Controversy Category:Simony Category:11th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Holy Roman Empire