Burkhard von Weißpriach

Burkhard's coat of arms in the Salzburg Chronicle (end of the 16th century)

Burkhard II von Weißpriach (* 1420 or 1423 in Weißpriach ; † February 16, 1466 in Salzburg ) was a Salzburg archbishop and cardinal in the 15th century.

Life

Descent and youth

Burkhard was the son of the Lungau ministerial of the same name and his wife Anna geb. from Lichtenstein. In 1448 he became Canon of Salzburg and Apostolic Protonotary and in 1452 Cathedral Provost and as such a representative of his predecessor at the Congress in Mainz, where Pope Pius II appointed him cardinal in pectore . From 1460 he was cardinal priest of Santi Nereo ed Archille .

Regency

During his reign, the first peasant unrest took place in 1462. The Turkish invasions in Carinthia and Styria also overshadowed the reign. The archbishop was able to avert greater damage to the prince-archbishopric. The dispute between Emperor Friedrich III. and his brother Archduke Albrecht VI. the Archbishop could not arbitrate despite several efforts.

As the first pronounced exponent of nepotism , he entrusted essential government affairs to his relatives, especially his brothers.

Planned and implemented construction measures

The archbishop's building activity was limited to the city. Above all, he had the fortress expanded, he relocated the driveway to the fortress on the east side (previously the west side), built the Krautturm, the Trumpeter Tower, the bell tower and the forge tower.

The second city fortifications were also built during his reign.

The archbishop's planned use of the women's garden as an area for city expansion failed because no citizens wanted to build new houses in this area. Around 1460 the monastery of St. Peter was supposed to move to Grödig in order to be able to found a university there.

literature

• Heinz Dopsch , Hans Spatzenegger (ed.): History of Salzburg, city and country. Pustet, Salzburg 1988, ISBN 3-7025-0243-2 .
• Franz von Krones :  Burchard, Archbishop of Salzburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 561 f.
• Herbert Klein:  Burchard von Weisspriach. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 27 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Weisbriach, Burkhard. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed December 4, 2016.
• Entry on Burkhard Weisbriach (Weißpriach) on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved December 4, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Sigismund I of Volkersdorf	Archbishop of Salzburg 1461–1466	Bernhard von Rohr