Albrecht of Pfalz-Mosbach

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Albrecht von Pfalz-Mosbach (also called von Bayern ; * September 6, 1440 ; † August 20, 1506 in Zabern ) was bishop of Strasbourg from 1478 to 1506 .

family

He came from the Wittelsbach family and was born the son of Count Palatine Otto I. zu Mosbach (1390–1461) and his wife Johanna von Bayern (1413–1444), eldest daughter of Duke Heinrich von Bayern-Landshut . His brother Ruprecht I (1437–1465) officiated as Bishop of Regensburg , another brother, Provost Johann von Pfalz-Mosbach (1443–1486), perished on a pilgrimage in Jerusalem . They were grandsons of King Ruprecht I and nephew of Elector Ludwig III. from the Palatinate .

Life

Albrecht acted as canon in the Strasbourg cathedral chapter and most recently as cathedral provost . He was a cousin of his episcopal predecessor Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern . In contrast to this, he pursued a less confrontational policy towards the imperial city of Strasbourg . He pursued the goal of creating a uniformly administered and closed territory for the bishopric of Strasbourg . Among other things, towns and castles were fortified and pledged properties were bought back. In order to pay for the high cost of papal confirmation of his election, he passed a tax on the consumption of butter during Lent . In some cases he also had cannons poured from the money he had raised. The tax has caused a certain degree of resentment among the population. After all, these and other measures have improved the financial situation of the Hochstift.

The Bundschuh movement fell into his time . In 1502 he warned the offices of the bishopric, the Unterlandvogt in Alsace and various cities of the resurgence of the movement. He wanted to persuade cities and regions to take joint defense efforts. Surveillance measures have actually been initiated. An agreement was reached at a meeting in Schlettstadt .

His relationship with the cathedral chapter was mostly good. In the church, he tried to reform. In particular, he wanted to fight the grievances in the monasteries. In 1482 he therefore called a diocesan synod and carried out 1492 visitations . However, he did not oppose the papal indulgence trade .

He was strongly influenced by Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg , who had been a preacher at Strasbourg Cathedral since 1478 , and by Jakob Wimpheling , who had lived in Strasbourg since 1501. In 1506 Albrecht even defended Wimpheling against Pope Julius II . Geiler urged the bishop to reform. However, some of them got stuck. So the plan failed to dissolve the canonical monastery of St. Stefan, which had fallen into disrepute, in favor of a community of clergymen. The visitation was finally given up because the cathedral chapter opposed it.

His grave slab is in Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité (Saverne) .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Claudia Ulbrich: The Untergrombacher Bundschuh 1502. In: Peter Blickle, Thomas Adam (Ed.): Bundschuh. Untergrombach 1502, the restless empire and the revolutionizability of Europe. Stuttgart, 2004 pp. 32-34
  2. ^ Francis Rapp: Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johannes (1445-1510) In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie, Part I Volume 12 Berlin, 1984 p. 161