Andreas von Gundelfingen

Coat of arms of Andreas von Gundelfingen after Lorenz Fries : Chronicle of the Bishops of Würzburg, 1574–1582

Andreas von Gundelfingen (* 13th century; † probably on December 14, 1313 in Würzburg ) was Bishop of Würzburg from 1303 to 1313.

origin

According to Wendehorst, Andreas von Gundelfingen came from the noble family of Gundelfingen from what is now the city of Gundelfingen on the Danube . His brothers Degenhard and Siboto have been handed down by name from his close family environment. His paternal nephew was Bishop Degenhard von Hellenstein from Augsburg and Friedrich VIII von Truhendingen on his mother's side .

Life dates

His career as a clergyman took him to Öhringen as provost in 1292 and as provost of St. Gumbertus to Ansbach from 1296 . He was archdeacon in 1297 . In 1303 he was elected bishop and confirmed by King Albrecht I and Archbishop Gerhard II of Eppstein .

In terms of imperial politics, King Albrecht I assured him on the court day in Nuremberg on May 1, 1304 that he would not make peace with Bohemia unless war damage was taken into account, and he also arbitrated a dispute between the bishop and the citizens of the city of Würzburg . The King continued to pledge the town and castle of Schweinfurt to Andreas von Gundelfingen , although he had already pledged them to Margrave Hermann I of Brandenburg. A little later he also received the town of Heidingsfeld as a pledge. Numerous princes then accompanied the king to Regensburg , from where a campaign against Bohemia began in August 1304. At the end of the campaign, the bishop returned to Würzburg. In 1309 he attended the funeral of King Albrecht I, who died on May 1, 1308, in Speyer .

In order to support the financing of the Bohemian campaign, Andreas von Gundelfingen pledged Neuchâtel Castle to Walther von Seckendorff in 1305 , which he was able to redeem in 1312. In 1304 he pledged the fallen fiefs of the extinct lineage of the noble lords of Wolfsberg to the burgrave Friedrich IV of Nuremberg . In 1307 he enfeoffed Count Ludwig the Elder von Rieneck with Brandenstein and Schlüchtern , which had been owned by the von Brandenstein family until then .

The oldest surviving fief book for the diocese of Würzburg dates from the time of Andreas von Gundelfingen .

Conflicts arose with the neighboring Counts of Henneberg because of the double pledging of the castle and town of Schweinfurt. Albrecht I was obliged to the Würzburg bishop to provide replacement for the pledge. The Schweinfurt pledge was finally transferred in 1309 to Count Berthold VII von Henneberg-Schleusingen. A feud between the bishop and Anna of Brandenburg was settled in 1309, so that the children of the widow Anna were given the Würzburg fiefs of the deceased Counts Hermann I and Poppo VIII von Henneberg and Konrad von Wilderberg. Von Adelheid, widow of Hermann II von Henneberg and the son of Heinrich VI. the bishop bought Fuchsstadt near Hammelburg in 1310 and exchanged Thüngen Castle for the pledged Geldersheim .

To secure the peace he made an alliance with Heinrich V. von Weilnau , Abbot of Fulda , who in 1308 joined Count Palatine Rudolf I and Ludwig der Baier . Andreas von Gundelfingen entered into a similar alliance with Bamberg's Bishop Wulfing von Stubenberg .

Various parishes were rebuilt during Andreas von Gundelfingen's term of office: 1306 Laudenbach and Hettingbeuren, 1311 Kembach and Giebelstadt and 1312 Dingolshausen . He held a diocesan synod .

He probably died on December 14, 1313 in Würzburg. Different death days in December 1313 have been handed down. His grave no longer existed in 1775.

In coinage

• A coin from the Würzburg bishop Andreas. AV. ANDREas. A half-length portrait, a sword in the right hand, a crook in the left. It is a denarius that was minted between 1303 and 1313.

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 Church Province of Mainz . Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-11-001291-X , pp. 36-43.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The sex is probably not identical with the gentlemen from Gundelfingen with reference place Gundelfingen, today part of Münsingen
2. ↑ Johann Octavian Salver : Samples of the high Teütschen empire nobility or collections of old monuments, gravestones, coats of arms, inscriptions and originals, ud Taken from their true archetypes, tried and tested with open loyalty, and other news explained and explained through ancestral trees . Wurzburg 1775.
3. ↑ Directory of the substantial books = collection, works of art, copper engravings, gold, silver and other rare coins of the councilor Sommer, who died in Erlangen , which ... p. 75 position 1889., Google Books, online , 76 p. With 1907 positions.
4. ↑ Denarius (1303–1313) double-sided illustration , accessed on July 13, 2014.

predecessor	Office	successor
Manegold of Neuchâtel	Bishop of Würzburg 1303-1313	Gottfried III. from Hohenlohe