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Eberhard was Archbishop of Salzburg Austria. Eberhard was born to a noble family of Nuremberg Germany he became a Benedictine in 1125 at Pruffening Germany. Later he was made Abbot of Biburg near Regensburg. Eberhard was later appointed Archbishop of Salzburg in 1146. He rose to fame as a mediator when Pope Alexander III was faced with the “Investiture Controversy” led by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and antipope Victor IV.