Christoph Metzler (Bishop)

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Coats of arms of the Bishop of Constance Christoph Metzler in the Muri monastery

Christoph Metzler von Andelberg (* 1490 in Feldkirch ; † September 11, 1561 in Meersburg ) was Bishop of Constance from 1548 to 1561.

family

Christoph Metzler came from the marriage of Feldkirch mayor Johannes Metzler. His sister Margaretha was married to the Mayor of Chur, Johannes Carl von Hohenbalken . His brother was Bartholomäus Metzler. He was canons of Konstanz and Chur, from 1589 cathedral cantor in Konstanz and from 1576 to 1601 provost of St. Stephen's monastery in Konstanz.

Life

Metzler studied together with Bartholomäus Bernhardi from 1504 to 1506 at the newly founded Leucorea in Wittenberg . In 1507 he moved to what was then the Albertina in Freiburg im Breisgau . On December 9, 1518 he received his doctorate from the Universitas Bononiensis to Doctor theologiae and Doctor iuris utriusque . He was vicar general in the diocese of Chur and head of the cathedral school. In 1527 he became regent of the cathedral monastery. After a riot and his flight from Chur he became official and vicar general of the Diocese of Constance in troubled times in 1529. After the uprisings and the plague, the Konstanz cathedral chapter first fled to Überlingen , and from 1542 to Radolfzell with Auxiliary Bishop Melchior Fattlin . After the Battle of Mühlberg in 1547, the resisting Constance was taken by force of arms on the orders of Emperor Charles V.

After the surprising death of Bishop Johannes von Weeze at the Reichstag in Augsburg , Christoph Metzler was elected Bishop of Constance on July 2, 1548 in Radolfzell . Pope Paul III confirmed the election on October 1, 1548. He was consecrated as a bishop in Augsburg by Bishop Otto Cardinal von Waldburg .

Metzler was also lord of Reichenau and commissioner in the case of Brandenburg against Frankish unification and in 1555/56 imperial sequester of the margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach .

He was a participant in the second session of the Council of Trent (1551/52) and was a highly regarded council speaker. He is considered to be the client of the choir painting in the Minster St. Maria and Markus auf der Reichenau. 1560 appeared under his editorship “Obsequiale, Simul ac Benedictionale, iuxta ritum [e] t normam Ecclesiae [e] t Episcopatus Constantiensis.”, 123 p., Printed in Ingolstadt by the brothers Alexander and Samuel Weißenhorn.

After his appointment as cardinal on February 26, 1561, Markus Sittikus was in a second attempt with the help of Rome by Pope Pius IV - Clara Medicea, the mother of Markus Sittikus, was the sister of the Pope - and with the support of Emperor Ferdinand I dem “Pious” butcher placed aside as coadjutor. A first attempt failed in 1560 due to resistance from the cathedral chapter, the pin nobility and the Swiss Confederation.

Christoph Metzler died in the old episcopal residence in Meersburg and was buried in the choir of the Catholic parish church in Meersburg. The subsequent parish church was built from 1827 to 1829 and the remains of Christoph Metzler and Cardinal Franz Konrad von Rodt and Maximilian Christoph von Rodt as well as Hugo von Hohenlandenberg and Johann Georg von Hallwyl were reburied in the vaulted crypt near the entrance.

Web links

Commons : Christoph Metzler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A stone tablet on the right at the entrance to the Catholic parish church of Meersburg documents that Christoph Metzler von Andelberg is buried in the vaulted crypt.
  2. ^ Helmut Maurer: The Diocese of Constance: The St. Stephan monastery in Constance . Walter de Gruyter, 1981, p. 266
  3. ^ A b c Joseph Bergmann: The imperial counts from and to Hohenembs in Vorarlberg . Volume 11 of Memoranda / Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Philosophical-Historical Class, 1861
  4. ^ Benedikt Bilgeri: History of Vorarlberg. Class power, common man - Emser and Habsburgs . Böhlau 1977, p. 144
  5. ↑ a b Meinrad Merkle: Vorarlberg. From the papers of the priest Franz Joseph Weizenegger, who died in Bregenz . Wagner 1839, p. 91
  6. ^ A b Antoine Godeau, Bernhard Hyper, Johann L. von Groote, Arnaldo Speroni degli Alvarotti: General Church History. Contains the church history from the year of Christ 814 to 844. Volume 23, Rieger 1785, p. 210
  7. ^ Ottmar Friedrich Heinrich Schönhuth: Chronicle of the former Reichenau monastery, presented from handwritten sources . 1835, p. 307
  8. ^ Rosemarie Aulinger: The Diet of Augsburg 1555 . Oldenbourg Verlag, 1962, p. 3192
  9. ↑ Meinrad Schaab , Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History . Volume 1: General History. Part 2: From the late Middle Ages to the end of the old empire. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-91948-1 , p. 247.
  10. ^ Franz Xaver Bishop: The end of the diocese of Constance. Hochstift and Bishopric Constance in the field of tension between secularization and suppression (1802 / 03-1821 / 27) . Kohlhammer, 1989, p. 58
  11. ↑ Bernd Konrad, Gertrud Weimar, Peter Weimar: The Renaissance frescoes in the late Gothic choir of the Reichenau Minster . Thorbecke, 2002, p. 57; 90f.
  12. ^ Herbert Frey: Mark parakeet von Hohenems. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 21, 2006 , accessed July 4, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Johannes von Weeze Bishop of Constance
1548–1561 		Mark Parakeet from Hohenems
personal data
SURNAME Metzler, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Constance
DATE OF BIRTH 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Feldkirch
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1561
Place of death Meersburg