Konrad Bayer from Boppard

Konrad Bayer von Boppard (* in Château-Bréhain ; † April 20, 1459 in Metz ; alternative spelling: Konrad Beyer von Boppard ) was Bishop of Metz from 1416 to 1459 as Konrad II .

origin

Konrad comes from the Bayer von Boppard family , who were Reich schultheiissen von Boppard and after the pledge of Boppard to the Archdiocese of Trier in 1331 became hereditary burgraves of the royal house of Boppard. A branch of the family acquired the Lorraine dominion of Château-Bréhain . He was the son of Conrad Bayer von Boppard, Lord of Château-Bréhain and Marie de Parroye. The Metz bishop Dietrich Bayer von Boppard was his great-uncle. The Archbishop of Trier Jakob I von Sierck was his nephew.

Bishop of Metz

He was Primicerius in Metz and was in 1415 by Pope John XXIII. appointed Bishop of Metz to succeed Raoul de Coucy , who became Bishop of Noyon . In 1415 he allied himself with Ludwig , Duke of Bar , against marauding hordes of mercenaries. In 1422 he made an alliance with Duke Charles II of Lorraine . In the conflict that broke out over the successor to Charles in Lorraine , he was on the side of Charles' son-in-law René I of Anjou , with whom he was captured on July 2, 1431 at the Battle of Bulgnéville , from which he was only captured on September 4 of the Was released the following year after paying a ransom. Konrad took part in the Council of Basel in 1434 . From 1438 he was the governor of René in Lorraine. In 1444 he had Moyen Castle built. He traveled to Rome in 1450 and arranged for Pope Nicholas V to appoint his nephew, Archbishop of Trier Jakob I von Sierck , as coadjutor of the diocese of Metz. After Jacob's death in 1456, Georg von Baden , who followed Konrad as Bishop of Metz after his death in 1459, became coadjutor. Conrad was buried in the cathedral of Metz .

Web links

Konrad II. Bayer von Boppard in the Saarland biographies

Individual evidence

↑ Otto Volk: Boppard in the Middle Ages . In: Heinz E. Missling (Ed.): Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine. First volume. From the early days to the end of the electoral rule . Dausner Verlag, Boppard 1997, ISBN 3-930051-04-4 , p. 220 .
↑ Otto Volk: Boppard in the Middle Ages . In: Heinz E. Missling (Ed.): Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine. First volume. From the early days to the end of the electoral rule . Dausner Verlag, Boppard 1997, ISBN 3-930051-04-4 , p. 216-217 .
^ Anton Philipp Brück : Dietrich Bayer von Boppard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 686 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ Hartmut Boockmann : Jakob I. von Si (e) rck. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 315 f. ( Digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Raoul de Coucy	Bishop of Metz 1415–1459	George of Baden

personal data
SURNAME	Bayer von Boppard, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bayer von Boppard, Konrad II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Metz
DATE OF BIRTH	14th century or 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Château-Bréhain
DATE OF DEATH	April 20, 1459
Place of death	Metz

[1] Otto Volk: Boppard in the Middle Ages . In: Heinz E. Missling (Ed.): Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine. First volume. From the early days to the end of the electoral rule . Dausner Verlag, Boppard 1997, ISBN 3-930051-04-4 , p. 220 .

[2] Otto Volk: Boppard in the Middle Ages . In: Heinz E. Missling (Ed.): Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine. First volume. From the early days to the end of the electoral rule . Dausner Verlag, Boppard 1997, ISBN 3-930051-04-4 , p. 216-217 .

[3] Anton Philipp Brück : Dietrich Bayer von Boppard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 686 f. ( Digitized version ).

[4] Hartmut Boockmann : Jakob I. von Si (e) rck. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 315 f. ( Digitized version ).