[3] A scion of the Austrian noble Lords of Puchheim, Pilgrim first appears as a canon of Salzburg Cathedral in 1353.
[4] He was appointed archbishop of Salzburg in 1365, backed by the Habsburg dukes of Austria against strong Bavarian resistance.
Pilgrim nevertheless was able to free himself from ties and dependencies; he was so powerful that by 1393 he had endowed his cathedral more than one hundred times.
[1] In 1381 he obtained the privilegium de non evocando, confirming his status as a prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
[1] The Monk also celebrated Pilgrim's chaplain, Richerus von Radstadt, in a song.