Arnold von Horst

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Grave slab in Paderborn Cathedral
Epitaph of his brother Rotger with the 16 ancestral coats of arms

Arnold von Horst († December 12, 1630 ) had been canon of Paderborn since 1583 . He was the son of Heinrich von der Horst zu Mydlinghoven († around 1586/87) and (⚭ 1552) Katharina von Binsfeld († around 1610), daughter of Werner von Binsfeld . His brother Rutger von Horst (* 1556; † September 3, 1623) had a seat in the Paderborn cathedral chapter since 1574 . Arnold held the office of cathedral dean from January 1590 to 1626 . After the death of the cathedral provost Walter von Brabeck in 1626, he was his successor on December 29, 1626 until his death.

Life

Arnold studied from 1580 to 1583 at the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum in Rome.

He had been in conflict with Prince-Bishop Dietrich von Fürstenberg and Walter von Brabeck for decades. It came to a rift with von Brabeck in 1588 on the occasion of the election of the cathedral provost. The Vatican asked the chapter to appoint Walter, while the bishop and canon had provided a relative of Dietrich, Melchior von Plettenberg , for this post. The Paderborn clergy felt that their rights were limited and brought an action against this decision. Because of this resistance, the Pope excommunicated the entire cathedral chapter in 1589, which then complied and confirmed the election, but on November 24, 1589, one day before the appointment to office, a well-justified charge of murder against Walter was brought before the episcopal court. Arnold repeated this accusation in 1608 in a letter to the Pope. The ban bull was lifted on April 14, 1590.

After Dietrich unsuccessfully urged the removal of the clergy's concubines from the cathedral's freedom in July 1589, the relationship with the canons was strained. On July 14, 1590, the cathedral chapter allied itself with the knighthood and the cities of the Paderborn region to preserve their privileges. Such an alliance, directed against the sovereign, would hardly have been possible against the will of the dean. At the latest from this point on, Arnold von Horst was in opposition to the bishop. In the following years they worked together on questions of the Counter-Reformation, but in 1598 the chapter blocked all decisions of the estates for several months. In 1602 the Protestant Duke of Lüneburg bought the votes of some canons for 600 gold florins each in the event of Dietrich's death. In a letter to the Lutheran Landgrave of Hesse, however, this Arnold is promised as an ally for the election of a Hessian coadjutor.

Open enmity between the bishop and dean came about in 1603 in the so-called agenda dispute. Due to the refusal of his new measuring regulations, Dietrich had a deposit collected for a fine on the territory of two nobles in the form of cattle. These gentlemen, however, had jurisdiction in their lands and therefore felt that they alone were entitled to such measures. The cathedral chapter followed this legal opinion and sent 50 riders on Corpus Christi day to bring the said animals back from Steinheim Castle and the city of Brakel. In addition, 200 mutton were requisitioned from Dringenberg Castle as compensation for the expenses involved in this operation. After Dieterich intervened, however, a large number of the canons distanced themselves from this measure. Arnold, however, did not bow and on October 8, 1603 the bishop suspended him from his offices. On July 13, 1604, the papal nuncio wrote to Dietrich asking that he be reconciled with the dean. Dietrich seemed ready to do so, but Arnold resisted, and only after a further request from Rome in 1607 was there a superficial peace.

In the coadjutor election called for by the Pope and Emperor, von Brabeck, von Horst and the Fürstenberger continued to stand as opponents in the field. The bishop made his approval of the election dependent on the appointment of his nephew Johann Gottfried von Fürstenberg. The provost had received the 600 gold florins in 1602, and his parliamentary group wanted the Minden bishop from the house of Lüneburg to the Paderborn chair. The dean negotiated with several candidates, the Hessians, the Habsburgs and the Archbishop of Cologne from the House of Wittelsbach . He was also said to have his own ambitions for the office of prince. This stalemate lasted until 1611.

In January an important ally of Arnold's cathedral syndic Johannes Möller compared himself with von Brabeck and refused the dean a document with the help of which these three canons wanted to exclude them from the election. Thereupon the said document from the cathedral capitular castle Lippspringe in which Möller resided as bailiff was confiscated by force. He himself was removed from his office and his property confiscated. The reason for the dismissal was read out in the cathedral and pinned to the red gate. Möller then wrote two writings, one in Latin (Horstenspiegel) and another in German, in which he made public transgressions known to him as well as private embarrassments of Arnold. Although the syndic only settled accounts with the dean, he had turned the entire clergy against him and was arrested in Dringenberg Castle on the orders of the bishop. He died after sustaining serious injuries in a failed escape attempt. Arnold wrote in an obituary like "the stinking bastard Johannes Möller in desperation and desperation how the traitor Judas died unhappy".

This scandal seems to have softened the fronts because in 1612 Ferdinand of Bavaria , the preferred candidate of the Pope and Emperor, was elected coadjutor.

Construction activity

After 1605 he built a new deanery on the Pader . In 1612 he founded a Capuchin monastery (today: Liborianum ) and founded a Capuchin monastery in 1628/29 (the price of the property alone was 3870 Thaler).

He also donated numerous sacred art objects that still characterize the cathedral today. I.a. the twelve life-size apostles , the barriers of the baptismal font, the pillars of the organ gallery, the so-called Capuchin altar and the cross altar.

literature

  • Franz von Löher: History of the fight for Paderborn. Berlin 1874 ( digitized version )
  • Wilhelm Richter: History of the city of Paderborn. Until the end of the Thirty Years War. Paderborn 1903 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Arnold von Horst grave slab in Paderborn Cathedral
  2. ^ Epitaph Rotger von Horst in Paderborn Cathedral
  3. ^ History of the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Second volume, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89710-005-3 , p. 76.
  4. ↑ gedbas.genealogy.net
  5. ^ Wilhelm Richter: History of the City of Paderborn. Until the end of the Thirty Years War. Paderborn 1903, p. 175 .
  6. ^ Wolter von Brabeck, Dompropst zu Paderborn 1553–1626. In: District Iserlohn⁄Märkischer Kreis (Hrsg.): Heimatblätter for Hohenlimburg and the surrounding area. Volume 17, 1956, N. 3.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Richter: History of the City of Paderborn. Until the end of the Thirty Years War. Paderborn 1903, pp. 14-15 .
  8. ^ Wilhelm Richter: History of the City of Paderborn. Until the end of the Thirty Years War. Paderborn 1903, pp. 32-33 .
  9. ^ Franz von Löher: History of the struggle for Paderborn. Berlin 1874, pp. 159-165 , 191 .
  10. ^ Wilhelm Richter: History of the City of Paderborn. Until the end of the Thirty Years War. Paderborn 1903, p. 174 .
  11. ^ Franz von Löher: History of the struggle for Paderborn. Berlin 1874, p. 307 .
  12. ^ Wilhelm Richter: History of the City of Paderborn. Until the end of the Thirty Years War. Paderborn 1903, pp. 179-182
  13. ^ Wilhelm Richter: History of the City of Paderborn. Until the end of the Thirty Years War. Paderborn 1903, p. 184 .
personal data
SURNAME Horst, Arnold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dean and provost in the Paderborn cathedral chapter
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1630
Place of death Paderborn