Eberhard I (archbishop of Salzburg)

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. In 1146 Pope Innocent II appointed him Archbishop of Salzburg.

He rose to fame as a mediator when Pope Alexander III was faced with the controversy surrounding the Papal election of 1159, created by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa who supported antipope Victor IV. Eberhard was one of the most able of the prelates of his age. He died in 1164, at the age of seventy-nine, returning from another peace keeping mission.