Baldwin II (Bremen)

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Baldwin II. , (* Before 1419; † July 8, 1441 ) (also: Baldwin von Wenden, Balduin or Boldewin von Dahlen, usually called Boldewin I as abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Michaelis in Lüneburg) was Archbishop of Bremen .

origin

Baldwin was the son of the Brunswick ministerial, knight Rudolf von Wenden and a natural daughter of Duke Johann von Lüneburg, a great scholar, Doctor Decretorum and at the same time an experienced negotiator and statesman, with the Guelph dukes, Bishop Johann III. von Verden , equally respected by the city of Lüneburg , popular at the Roman court; in addition rich.

Life

After completing his studies, Baldwin worked, among other things, as an arbitrator and arbitrator . Between 1405 and 1414 he held this position several times in Braunschweig . During the Braunschweig Pfaffenkriege he tried to mediate between the clergy of the various parties to the dispute. When the old abbot Ulrich († July 5, 1423) resigned to Pope Martin V in Rome , he appointed the previous prior Boldewin to abbot without asking the convention . On March 7, 1428 he attended a mediation day in Celle because of the Guelph inheritance disputes. When the Bremen cathedral chapter was able to accept an administrator in view of the enormous debts and pledging of the Bremen monastery property under Archbishop Nikolaus von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst , in order to control the bottomless disintegration , Count Otto von Hoya soon resigned the dire post, Nikolaus resigned in 1435 in favor of Boldewin in a contract guaranteed by Bishop Johann von Verden and Duke Otto von Lüneburg. Because of the financial shortage of the archbishopric, Pope Eugene IV allowed the Lüneburg Abbey to be kept for 6 years, Boldewin kept it until his death; he is also buried in the abbey church. In order to gain archbishopric dignity, the city of Lüneburg is said to have given him 60,000 marks, a barely heard sum; What is certain is that at the beginning he paid 38,000 Rhenish guilders in debts, but then only recognized the debts made by the archbishop with the consent of the cathedral chapter. He brought the archbishopric again to some extent, got on amicably with Verden because of the disputed borders and, through his government, allowed the idea of ​​togetherness to get along for the first time in the two districts, which only came through much later, like Bishop Johann's attempt at Verden To make Bremen suffragan after Baldewin's death proves.

The Basel council commissioned him as abbot of St. Michael to investigate the Rostock turmoil and in 1435 he decided to resume the old council, which the council confirmed in the appellation in 1436. On June 3, 1435, the Guelph dukes appointed him as the first arbitrator to settle their inheritance disputes, and in 1436 he took part in the Reichstag in Frankfurt, as the certificate confirming the monastery privileges of March 1 shows. He initiated the battles between the archbishops of Bremen and the farmers of the country of Wursten , which were constantly renewed up to the middle of the 16th century , forcing the country to pay compensation, mainly with the help of Verdian riders. As an art-loving, wealthy gentleman, he has proven himself in many buildings on his monastery and by decorating its church with painting, the Passion and the life of St. Benedict, which came to the Hanover Museum in 1852 after the knight academy in Lüneburg was closed.

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  1. ↑ Ulrich Schwarz: Balduin von Wenden. P. 64.
predecessor Office successor
Nikolaus von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst Coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Bremen.png
Archbishop of Bremen
1435–1441 		Gerhard III., From Hoya
personal data
SURNAME Baldwin II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balduin von Wenden; Boldewin von Dahlen; Boldewin I .; Baldwin of Bremen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH before 1419
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1441