The Bishopric of Gurk was founded in 1072 by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg, carved out of Salzburg's diocesan territory as a suffragan see in Carinthia. The bracket 1200–1241 spans a succession of bishops whose coinage attribution remains unresolved — CNA Cq59 acknowledges the type without pinning it to a specific prelate, which itself reflects how thin the documentary record for Gurk's early minting activity remains.
The Bishopric of Gurk was founded in 1072 by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg, carved out of Salzburg's diocesan territory as a suffragan see in Carinthia. The bracket 1200–1241 spans a succession of bishops whose coinage attribution remains unresolved — CNA Cq59 acknowledges the type without pinning it to a specific prelate, which itself reflects how thin the documentary record for Gurk's early minting activity remains.