Rudolf of Wied

This minority party held an election before the hour previously scheduled for the vote, and chose their own candidate Folmar for the archiepiscopal office.

[1] On Rudolf's return to Trier, he found the cathedral occupied by Folmar's supporters, and was forced to take up residence at the Collegiate Church of St. Simeon, also managing to retain a part of the city and the archdiocese.

In Verona the Barbarossa met Pope Lucius III in autumn of 1184, in order to settle their differences in regard to the archiepiscopal election in Trier personally; however, nothing was achieved.

[2] Armed clashes between Rudolf's and Folmar's adherents became common, and it was said that the violence in the diocese was a fulfilment of the baleful prophecies of Hildegard of Bingen.

[8] When Theoderich von Wied (son of the count of the same name) became Provost of the Church in Rees, he endowed a yearly memorial for his uncle Rudolf.

Silver denier of the Archbishop of Trier, issued ca . 1186-1189 by the cathedral chapter . Obverse shows the mitered archbishop with a crosier ; reverse shows two towers and a roofed apse surmounted by a cross, probably representing the cathedral . (This coin is identified as representing either Rudolf of Wied or Folmar of Karden, more likely the former.)