Baring-Gould’s sources: Treves Martyrology. Greven in his additions to Usuardus, Molanus, Canisius, Saussaye, &c. Authority His life by Dietrich, Monk of Tholey, a contemporary.] Archbishop Anno of Cologne1 was one of the most ambitious men of his day. He carried off the youthful Emperor Henry IV. from Kaiserswerth, by stratagem, to obtain complete control over him; and for a long time he ruled the empire in his name, and heaped to himself abbeys and lands, and bestowed benefices on his relations. On the vacancy of the see of Treves, he appointed to it, with the emperor's consent, his nephew Cuno, or Conrad, Archdeacon of Cologne, in high-handed defiance of the rights of the chapter and people of Treves to choose their own prince-bishop. The clergy and people of Treves rose to oppose the intrusion. Anno sent Cuno under the charge of the Bishop of Spires, and a goodly retinue, to take possession of the see, but Cuno was waylaid at Bideburg by the Vogt, or protector of the see, Count Dietrich, who dispersed the troop, plundered the treasure of the archbishop, and took him prisoner. The Bishop of Spires, who had taken refuge behind the altar of the church, was drawn forth, cudgelled, and obliged to escape half-naked, on an old horse. The archbishop was thrown into chains, treated with savage barbarity, and finally thrown down a rock, and stabbed to death, as he was found to be still breathing. Cuno seems to have been a pious, well-meaning man, and was the victim of the unscrupulous and ambitious schemes of his uncle. His body was removed to Tholey. His murderers remained unpunished.