Altmann (bishop of Passau)

[5] In 1076, along with the Archbishop of Salzburg, Gebhard von Helfenstein (who had consecrated Altmann as a bishop), he did not take part in the Reichstag of Worms, and supported the counter-king Rudolf of Swabia.

The princely rights over the town of Passau were lost, the king lent them to the Burggrave Ulrich, whom he had employed.

In 1085 the Emperor deposed him as Bishop of Passau, after which he spent most of his time in the territory of the Austrian margrave, where he reformed the existing monasteries of St. Florian, Kremsmünster Abbey, Melk and St. Pölten Abbey, improved the parish church organisation, and had stone churches built at all of them.

His influence on the government of the margraviate was at times so strong that he was called the "leader" of Margrave Leopold II.

The Vita of Altmann of Passau was written by an anonymous monk of Göttweig some fifty years after the bishop's death.