Benedikt Siebenhirter

Benedikt Siebenhirter (* around 1415 ; † May 10, 1458 ) was court bishop of Emperor Frederick III. and auxiliary bishop in Passau.

Life

Benedikt Siebenhirter made his profession in 1428 in Kremsmünster Abbey (the document does not have a date) and is attested as a pleban ( folk priest ) in Kirchberg in 1444 and 1446 . His relative (brother?) Johann Siebenhirter was the Emperor's kitchen master and in 1499 Grand Master of the Order of St. George . It will be thanks to him that Benedict was ordained court chaplain (court bishop) with the title of archbishop of Tiberias on November 20, 1452 (as suffragan of the Diocese of Passau ). Probably to increase his income he received in 1454 the Stift Ossiach in Carinthia , 1455 by Bishop Enea Silvio Piccolomini from Siena , who later became Pope Pius II. , Visitiert was. On May 10, 1457 Siebenhirter resigned to the abbey.

Some ordinations have come down to us from Archbishop Siebenhirter. In 1457 he consecrated altars in Lienz and gave indulgences . He died on Friday after Ascension Day 1458. Konrad Eubel lists him in his Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi (vol. 2, p. 177) with the same consecration date among the bishops of Lydda . Possibly the original appointment of bishop was followed by an increase in rank on the same day.

literature

• Franz Stubenvoll: Benedikt Siebenhirter. Court bishop, abbot of Ossiach, * around 1415, † 1458. In: Carinthia I vol. 177 (1987) pp. 207-218
• August Leidl : Sibenhirter, Benedikt (OSB) († 1458). In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448 to 1648. A biographical lexicon. Volume 2. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1996, p. 662
• Altman Kellner : Profession book of the Kremsmünster Abbey. Carinthia book printing company of the St. Josef Association in Klagenfurt 1968, pp. 147–148

Web links

• Entry on Benedikt Siebenhirter on catholic-hierarchy.org