Wiligis, Archbishop of Mainz, is on friendly…

Wiligis, Archbishop of Mainz, is on friendly terms with Rome, though the Papacy stands at its nadir.

These relations are somewhat disturbed by the dispute of Willigis with Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim about jurisdiction in the house of secular canonesses at Gandersheim Abbey.

The immediate monastery established in 852 had originally been situated at Brunshausen in the Diocese of Hildesheim, but had been transferred to nearby Gandersheim within the territorial limits of the Mainz diocese.

Both bishops claim jurisdiction, until Pope Sylvester II finally declares in favor of Hildesheim, against Willigis' initial resistance.

Wiligis’s protégé is the scholarly and just Burchard, who is appointed Bishop of Worms by Emperor Otto III in 1000.