Arnold von Waldois

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Arnold von Waldois (* probably 1593 at Overbeck Castle in Breyell ; † October 6, 1661 in Corvey ) was Prince Abbot of Corvey for a good 23 years from September 18, 1638 .

biography

Arnold von Waldois began his church career in the St. Pantaleon Monastery in Cologne. In 1616 he moved to Corvey, where he was prior . In 1629 he took Friedrich Spee , who was related to him and who had been sent to the Counter Reformation to Peine the year before and had been seriously injured in an attack shortly before, to Corvey to restore his health. On December 21, 1631 he was elected abbot of the Iburg monastery . In 1634 the monks were expelled from the Swedes, Arnold von Waldois withdrew to Münster in Westphalia , from where he tried in vain to get the monastery back. In 1638 he was elected Abbot of Corvey to succeed Johann Christoph von Brambach. He is listed in the history of the abbey as Arnold IV.

Here, too, his tenure was marked by the campaigns of the Thirty Years' War . On June 15, 1644, Swedes also moved up in front of the Corvey monastery, and Waldois was captured by them. The Landgrave widow Amalie Elisabeth von Hanau-Münzenberg , who ruled in Hesse and under whose protection Corvey stood, arranged for his release in return for a ransom of 600 Reichstalers. When the Swedish general Carl Gustav Wrangel attacked Corvey during his siege of Höxter in 1646 , Arnold von Waldois avoided the Kemnade monastery . During the attack the following year, he managed to get the soldiers to spare the interior of the monastery church.

Arnold von Waldois died on October 3, 1661, "exhausted by the most difficult vicissitudes of wars ... at the age of 68". He was the last male member of his family, the extinction of the Waldois had been sealed years earlier with the death of his brother Adolf in 1653.

literature

  • Greta van der Beek-Optendrenk: From the term of office of Breyeller Arnold von Waldois as Prince Abbot in Corvey . Heimatbuch Kreis Viersen 68, 2017, pp. 103-108.
  • Wilhelm Stüwer: An unknown biography of Abbot Arnold v. Waldois by Corvey . Münster, undated ( online ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ The "i" in the family name is a stretching sound, so the name is pronounced "Waldoos"
  2. ↑ Overbeck is a submerged castle, over whose location the federal highway 61 runs today ; In the immediate vicinity is Overbeckstrasse, which is the only reminder of the old castle
  3. ↑ In the abbot gallery in Klosters his term of office is given as 23 years and 15 days, at his death he was 68 years old.
  4. ↑ Spee's mother and the first wife of Arnold's brother Adolf von Waldois belong to the same family
  5. ^ Iburg was the residence of the bishops of Osnabrück , in Waldoi's time this was Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg
  6. ↑ So the medallion for his portrait in the abbot gallery, translation after Optendrenk
predecessor Office successor
Johann Christoph von Brambach Abbot of Corvey
1638–1661 		Christoph Bernhard von Galen
personal data
SURNAME Waldois, Arnold of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldoes, Arnold of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Corvey
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1593
PLACE OF BIRTH Overbeck Castle (Breyell)
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1661
Place of death Corvey