Burkhart from Ziegenhain

Burkhart von Ziegenhain (also Burkart von Ziegenhain ; * after 1207; † August 1247 in Lake Constance ) was Archbishop of Salzburg for a few months .

Life

Church career

Burkhart was the third son of Count Ludwig I of Ziegenhain and Nidda and his wife Gertrud and was earmarked for a church career. He became canon in Mainz and Worms , in 1227 dean and in 1234 provost of St. Mariengreden in Mainz and provost of the St. Walpurgis monastery in Weilburg . From 1235 he was provost at the Petersstift in Fritzlar and from 1239 provost of St. Marien in Wetzlar . On behalf of Archbishop Siegfried III. of Mainz, Burkhart and his brother, Count Berthold I. von Ziegenhain , directed the conquest of the imperial city ​​of Wiesbaden, loyal to the emperor, in 1242 . He was captured in the process, but was soon released again.

Chancellor Heinrich Raspes

Burkhart stood like the Archbishops Siegfried III. of Mainz and Conrad of Cologne , on the side of the opponents of the Staufer , the Emperor Frederick II and his son King Conrad IV , and traveled with the two archbishops to Lyon in the spring of 1245 to drive the deposition of Frederick at the council there .

Archbishop Siegfried had lost his office as imperial administrator in 1241 because of his conversion to the papal party to the Thuringian landgrave Heinrich Raspe . However, Raspe also went to the camp of the imperial opponents at the turn of the year 1243/44, and this led to a close cooperation between the landgrave and the archbishop. At the request of Heinrich Raspe, Pope Innocent IV in January 1246 allowed the Fritzlar provost Burkhart to accept additional benefices and dignities. After Innocent had declared Emperor Friedrich and King Konrad deposed and Heinrich Raspe was elected as the anti-king on May 22, 1246 by an assembly of clergy princes and Thuringian and Hessian counts in Veitshöchheim near Würzburg , Burkhart von Ziegenhain became Raspe's chancellor the next day ordered. However, there are hardly any notarized documents from his chancellorship. Heinrich Raspe died on February 16, 1247, and this ended Burkhart's chancellorship.

Archbishop of Salzburg

After the Salzburg Archbishop Eberhard II died on December 1, 1246, the cathedral chapter there unanimously elected Philipp von Spanheim as his successor, a son of Duke Bernhard II of Carinthia and nephew of the Bohemian King Ottokar I. In order not to jeopardize his inheritance claims to Carinthia , Philip did not have himself consecrated. Pope Innocent IV ignored the election and instead appointed the opponent Propst Burkhart von Fritzlar as the new Archbishop of Salzburg on February 25, 1247 . On March 6, Burkhart was in Lyon for priest and bishop ordained before he shortly afterwards by the Pope the pallium received.

However, Burkhart did not make it to Salzburg. He drowned in Lake Constance on August 23 or 25, 1247 , on the journey from Lyon to Salzburg. It is uncertain whether it was an accident or a forced removal. Burkhart was buried in the Cistercian monastery Salmannsweiler (Salem) . His bronze tombstone was stolen by Swedish mercenaries in 1634.

Philipp von Spanheim followed Burkhart as administrator and Elekt ("Elected Archbishop") without ever receiving consecration, and was only deposed by the Salzburg Cathedral Chapter in 1257 .

literature

• Heinz Dopsch , Hans Spatzenegger (ed.): History of Salzburg, city and country . Pustet, Salzburg, 1988; ISBN 3-7025-0243-2 .
• Waldemar Künther, “Fritzlar and Mainz”, in Fritzlar in the Middle Ages; Festschrift for the 1250 anniversary (pp. 168–201), Magistrat der Stadt Fritzlar and Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde Marburg, Fritzlar, 1974; ISBN 3-921-254-99-X .
• Martin Röhling, The History of the Counts of Nidda and the Counts of Ziegenhain , Niddaer Geschichtsblätter No. 9, Ed. Niddaer Museumsverein eV, Nidda, 2005; ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Eberhard II of Regensberg	Archbishop of Salzburg 1247	Philipp von Spanheim