Dietrich Bayer from Boppard

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Family coat of arms of the bishop, from "Wormatiensis Chronici", by Georg Helwich , 1614

Dietrich Bayer von Boppard (* around 1330 ; † January 18, 1384 ; alternative spelling: Dietrich Beyer von Boppard ) was Bishop of Worms from 1359 to 1365 and then Bishop of Metz until his death .

origin

Grave slab Reinbold Beyers v. Boppard († 1364) in Worms Cathedral

Dietrich comes from the Beyer von Boppard family , who were Reichs schultheiissen von Boppard and after the pledge of Boppard to the Archdiocese of Trier in 1331 became hereditary burgraves of Boppard.

  • The parents are given differently: Once as Heinrich v. Boppard and Lise de Laciriere, then as Simon Bayer v. Boppard and Elisabeth von Rhens, most recently as Simon Bayer v. Boppard and Elisabeth Walpod von Waldmannshausen.
  • His brother Heinrich Beyer von Boppard († 1376) was buried in the Marienberg Benedictine convent in Boppard. In addition to the paternal coat of arms of the "Bayer von Boppard", the surviving grave slab shows a maternal coat of arms with twelve columns, as used by the Waldbott von Bassenheim and von Waldmannshausen.
  • His other brother Reinbold Beyer von Boppard († 1364) was cathedral curator in Worms and is buried in Worms cathedral ; the grave slab is in the southern choir area. In addition to the paternal coat of arms of the "Bayer von Boppard", it also shows the maternal coat of arms of the Waldbott, which has been changed twelve times.

Career as a clergyman

Dietrich was trained in Liège and received an entitlement to the Worms cathedral chapter as early as 1342 through the mediation of the Bohemian King John the Blind . In 1353 he was canon in Worms , Mainz and Trier and from 1353/1356 to 1363 canon in Mainz . The takeover of the Dompropstei in Speyer failed in 1353 despite the papal commission . In 1358 Dietrich was appointed papal chaplain .

Service for emperor and pope

His father had been councilor at Charles IV's court since 1346. Dietrich had a close relationship with the House of Luxembourg , he represented the interests of Charles IV at the papal court of Avignon , accompanied Charles IV to Avignon in 1365 and on his second expedition to Italy in 1368. In 1372, Karl commissioned him to negotiate the release of his brother Wenzel von Luxemburg, who had been captured by the Duke of Jülich . For Popes Urban V and Gregory XI. he went on legation trips.

Bishop of Worms

In April 1359 he became coadjutor of the diocese of Worms. When the sick Bishop Salmann Cleman resigned and died shortly afterwards, he became Bishop of Worms on May 15, 1359. In Worms there were disputes between the clergy and the citizenry, in 1360 Dietrich imposed the interdict on the city, which was lifted at the end of the year after Charles IV intervened. The disputes between the clergy and the city flared in 1364 but returned to Charles and imposed the imperial ban over the city.

Bishop of Metz

In 1365 Dietrich accompanied Charles IV to Avignon , where he was appointed Bishop of Metz at the instigation of Charles . This enabled Charles to occupy this diocese, which had been under French influence for a long time, near his Luxembourg hereditary lands with a confidante. In Metz , Dietrich tried to mediate in the conflicts between the diocese, clergy and city. Initially he succeeded in strengthening the bishop's financial and political position, but after a few years there were renewed conflicts with the city. The cathedral chapter had turned to Rome in a dispute over its taxation. The invasion of the Bretons in 1375 put a heavy strain on the diocese's troubled finances. In the Occidental Schism , he decided on Clemens VII.

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Individual evidence

  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. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Beier von Boppard. In: Historical Lexicon of the German States. The German territories and imperial immediate families from the Middle Ages to the present. 6th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44333-8 , p. 50.
  3. ^ Wolfram:  Dietrich (Bishop of Worms and Metz) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 706-708.
  4. ^ Anton Ph. 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 ).
  5. ^ Dietrich Bayer von Boppard in the Saarland biographies
  6. ↑ Eberhard J. Nikitsch: DI 60, No. 56 . urn : nbn: de: 0238-di060mz08k0005600 ( inschriften.net ).
  7. ↑ Eberhard J. Nikitsch: DI 60, No. 56 . urn : nbn: de: 0238-di060mz08k0005600 ( inschriften.net ). Note 3 and Eberhard J. Nikitsch: DI 29, No. 145. In: www.inschriften.net. (not online yet).
predecessor Office successor
Salmann Cleman Bishop of Worms
1359-1365 		Johann I. Schadland
Johann III. from Vienne Bishop of Metz
1365–1384 		Peter of Luxembourg
personal data
SURNAME Bayer von Boppard, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bayer von Boppard, Theoderich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Worms and Metz
DATE OF BIRTH around 1330
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1384