Albrecht II of Hohenlohe

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Marienberg Fortress, Marienkirche

Albrecht II of Hohenlohe († June 27, 1372 in Würzburg ) was bishop of Würzburg from 1345 until his death .

Albrecht II in the family context

Albrecht II came from the Swabian-Franconian noble and widely ramified family of those von Hohenlohe (see also list of noble families in Franconia ). With his brother Friedrich von Hohenlohe, the family provided the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (1344–1352) and Gottfried III almost simultaneously . von Hohenlohe was one of the predecessors of Albrecht II on the Würzburg bishop's chair with the term of office from 1314 to 1322. His parents were Albrecht von Hohenlohe, Herr auf Uffenheim, and Adelheid von Berg-Schelklingen. According to the genealogical census within the family, the father is Albrecht II, the census with the son as Albrecht II relates to the second Würzburg bishop named Albrecht. The family coat of arms of those of Hohenlohe shows in silver two black leopards standing on top of each other, striding to the right with bowed tails.

Albrecht II as bishop

Albrecht II was unanimously elected bishop by the cathedral chapter in 1345 and was elected by the Mainz Metropolitan , represented by the suspended bishop Heinrich III. von Virneburg , confirmed. Nevertheless, Pope Clement VI tried . , Albert I of Hohenberg to determine the successor of Otto. Albrecht I sent authorized representatives to Würzburg to take over the business, but this did not succeed. Contrary to the representation by Lorenz Fries , Albrecht I himself seems never to have entered the diocese. In 1349 Albrecht I became Bishop of Freising , which ended the dispute over the post in Würzburg.

Despite an ever more extensive Franconian land peace , which was also renewed in the time of Albrecht II, Albrecht and his brother Gottfried, as Bishop of Bamberg, agreed with the burgrave of Nuremberg Johann II , the intervening possession of those of, which had grown to a considerable territory Schluesselberg , now part of Franconian Switzerland . This conflict had already begun under Otto II von Wolfskeel . Ultimately, the last and most powerful of his line, Konrad II von Schlüsselberg , was besieged at his Neideck castle and died in 1347 when a Blide was shot at . A considerable part of the Schlüsselberg property then passed into the joint ownership of the Würzburg and Bamberg bishoprics , including the castles (Nieder-) Senftenberg, Thüngfeld, Ebermannstadt, Schlüsselfeld, Neideck, Waischenfeld, Streitberg and Greifenstein after the division on May 12, 1349.

With the spread of the plague in Europe in 1347, the search for causes gave rise to the myth of well poisoning by Jews . Persecutions took place in Würzburg in 1349, and the bishop is said to have condemned the Jews of Meiningen to death by fire. The Marienkapelle was later built on the site of the synagogue . The plague broke out again in the Würzburg area in 1350, 1356 and 1363; under this impression the Würzburg Dance of Death was born .

Albrecht II acquired the Burgraviate of Würzburg from the Counts of Henneberg in 1354 .

The relationship with Pope Innocent VI. was heavily burdened by the murder of Johannes Guilaberti. The French clergy Guilaberti should succeed on the benefice of 1,354 deceased canon tungsten Schenk von Rossberg compete, but its agents were on 28 March 1357 in the Main drowned. The suspects included the bishop, cathedral provost , cathedral dean and the beneficiaries. They were summoned to trial, but did not appear. Thereupon the Bishop of Rouen , Peter Cardinal Foresta (also Pierre IV. De la Forêt ) was sent to Würzburg for an investigation. However, he was mistreated there. The conflict ended with Guilaberti taking possession of the benefice. In the period from August 1366 to December 1367, the Pope excommunicated and suspended the bishop and chapter because of other differences .

In 1366 the diocese was considered to be heavily indebted, and the numerous pledges under Albrecht II did not make any noticeable relief.

Albrecht II was buried in the Würzburg Cathedral .

literature

  • Alfred Wendehorst : The Diocese of Würzburg Part 2 - The series of bishops from 1254 to 1455 . In: Max Planck Institute for History (Ed.): Germania Sacra - New Part 4 - The Dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Mainz . Berlin 1969, ISBN 9783110012910 . Pp. 76-97.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on the family in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
  2. ↑ Compare dance of death and, as an allusion, the work of Wolfgang Lenz .
  3. ^ Note in Meyers Konversationslexikon
  4. ↑ see list of Frankish knight families # S
predecessor Office successor
Albrecht I of Hohenberg Bishop of Würzburg
1345–1372 		Withego Hildbrandi
counter-bishop Albrecht III. from Heßberg
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht II of Hohenlohe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Würzburg
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1372
Place of death Wurzburg