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The role of Bishop Conrad of Querfurt in the actions of Emperor Henry VI Hohenstaufen in Southern Italy. In the shadow of a great European policy (Germany - Sicily - Byzantium)

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Conrad of Querfurt (ca. 1160–1202) was one of the most important and influential German bishops at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries. He was associated with the Hohenstaufen dynasty. As a result, he became the bishop of Hildesheim (1194–1199), and then the bishop of Würzburg (1198–1202), as well as served two German kings from that family as chancellor (1194–1201). Conrad of Querfurt was a man of extremely broad political horizons and great ambitions. It was not a coincidence that the title of chancellor, along with the governorship of the Norman kingdom, was given to him by Henry VI. He took great care of his public image, which he proved by sponsoring the work of Peter of Eboli, titled Liber ad honorem Augusti sive de rebus Siculis. He was sent to Italy to raise funds for the Crusade, which Henry VI wanted to launch at any price. He fulfilled the task so perfectly that he led to the outbreak of an uprising in Sicily. The fiscal policy implemented by Conrad was supported by the authority of the German army, which Henry VI had left him