Anselm Franz von Ingelheim (1634–1695)

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Archbishop Anselm Franz von Ingelheim (1680)
Anselm Franz von Ingelheim (1679)
Grave monument in Mainz Cathedral
Epitaph in Aschaffenburg

Anselm Franz von Ingelheim (born September 16, 1634 in Cologne , † March 30, 1695 in Aschaffenburg ) was the fourth governor of Erfurt , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz .

Live and act

The only son of marshal Georg Hans von Ingelheim and his wife Anna Elisabeth Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler was born in Cologne, where his parents had fled because of the invasion of Sweden in Ingelheim . When he returned, he grew up in his homeland and then attended the Jesuit Academy in Pont-à-Mousson . Here he studied law and theology. In 1660, Anselm Franz von Ingelheim became cathedral capitular in Mainz and was ordained a priest in the same year by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Wolter von Streversdorf (1588–1674). From 1675 to 1679, Anselm Franz was the governor of the Electorate of Mainz in Erfurt .

On November 7, 1679 , Anselm Franz von Ingelheim became Prince-Bishop of Mainz and thus Arch Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . Domestically, he tried to govern his electoral state with numerous and varied ordinances, including a. he alone issued 48 "police regulations".

The 16-year reign of Anselm Franz was clouded by the constant striving for peace and neutrality in relation to the catastrophic reunification policy of Louis XIV , which is why he had to live almost constantly in exile, but Mainz probably escaped destruction by the French due to its declared neutrality. During the Nine Years' War , the 1688 by the French under was Louis-François de Boufflers occupied fortress Mainz from besieged June to September 1689 and finally unexpectedly by troops of the Augsburg Alliance recaptured.

In 1689 he crowned Empress Eleonore Magdalena , the wife of Emperor Leopold I and a year later their son Joseph I, King of Hungary. These coronations and the announcement by the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1689 were the glamorous highlights of his reign.

From 1691 to 1695 he had left Mainz due to the turmoil of the War of Succession and the resulting dangers and lived in the episcopal summer residence at Johannisburg Castle in Aschaffenburg. There he died and, according to his last will, he was buried in the collegiate church of St. Peter and Alexander . His heart rests in Mainz Cathedral , where a memorial was erected for him.

The bishop was benevolent towards the needy and promoted both churches and schools to a special degree, which the historian Johann Vinzenz Wolf recorded in 1816 in his "Eichsfeld Church History" . He writes about him: " From Anselm Franz von Ingelheim ... I can and must boast that none of his predecessors showed such charity against the poor, against churches and schools on the Eichsfelde , mostly from his private fortune. than this gentleman. "

In 1686, Bishop von Ingelheim founded the Old Electoral High School in Bensheim .

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Web links

Commons : Anselm Franz von Ingelheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Bensheim Electoral High School, with the school founder Anselm Franz von Ingelheim
predecessor Office successor
Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg Elector Archbishop of Mainz
1679–1695 		Lothar Franz von Schönborn
personal data
SURNAME Ingelheim, Anselm Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of Erfurt, German Archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1634
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1695
Place of death Aschaffenburg