Albert von Behaim or Albertus Bohemus (ca.
When excommunication was pronounced against the emperor in 1239, Behaim was made a permanent delegate and commissioned to make the sentence effective.
For that purpose he appealed to the bishops of Germany (1240), and when they proved themselves negligent he excommunicated a number of ecclesiastics and laymen of prominence.
Fragments of the first were edited by Andreas Felix von Oefele, in "Rerum Boicarum Scriptores", vol.
1; the second by Konstantin von Höfler in "Bibliothek des litterarischen Vereins" (Stuttgart, 1847).