Dietrich Schenk von Erbach

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Coat of arms of the Archbishop of Mainz
Epitaph in the collegiate church of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg

Dietrich (Theoderich) Schenk von Erbach (* 1390 ; † May 6, 1459 in Aschaffenburg ) was elector and archbishop of Mainz from 1434 to 1459 .

Life

He was born the son of Eberhard, the heir to Erbach . First canon in Mainz , he was elected as the new archbishop on July 6, 1434 by the Mainz cathedral chapter . Pope Eugene IV confirmed him in his office on October 20 of the same year. From 1436 to 1438 the cleric Ludwig von Ast († 1455) acted as his chancellor, whom he promoted afterwards and whose election as Bishop of Worms he enforced in 1445, which, however, led to church disputes.

In the turmoil of the Basel Council , Dietrich took a neutral stance and tried to mediate between the parties. In April 1439 he received in Mainz the legate of the rump council of Basel Jordi d'Ornós († 1452), Bishop of Vic ( Vicensis ), who was appointed in October 1440 in Basel by the antipope Felix V as " pseudocardinal ". He recommended that the German princes remain neutral. After the removal of Pope Eugene IV. Was decided in Basel in June 1439 and Felix V was installed as antipope in November, Dietrich succeeded in reaching an agreement between the princes and the emperor: Eugene IV. Became the legal Pope accepted.

Dietrich's brother was Philipp Schenk von Erbach († 1467), Benedictine abbot of the monastery White Castle (Wissembourg) in Alsace.

Funerary monument

Dietrich Schenk von Erbach found his final resting place in front of the steps of the high altar in the collegiate basilica of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg. The Tumba set up there suffered severe damage in the Second Margravial War in 1552 during the devastation caused by the troops of Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades . It was demolished in 1607/08 as part of renovation work in the choir. As a replacement, the sculptor Hans Juncker created an epitaph for the collegiate church, for which he received a final payment of 63 guilders until July 16, 1608.

literature

  • Leo Bruhns: Würzburg sculptor of the renaissance and the emerging baroque. Munich 1923.
  • Walter Kaemmerer:  Dietrich von Erbach. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 679 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ingrid Heike Ringel: Studies on the staff of the office of Archbishop of Mainz Dietrich von Erbach (1434-1459) (sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine church history 34). Mainz 1980.
  • Wolfgang Voss: Dietrich von Erbach. Archbishop of Mainz (1434-1459). Studies on imperial, church and state politics as well as on the archbishop's councils (sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine region 112). Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-929135-46-9 ( online ).
  • Philipp Walther:  Dietrich Schenk von Erbach . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 185 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Société suisses d'héraldique: Archivum heraldicum (1916), p. 67.
  2. ↑ Regesten of April 10 and June 23, 1439 in: Badische Historische Commission (ed.), Heinrich Witte (edit.): Regesten der Margrrafen von Baden and Hachberg, 1050–1515 , Vol. II 1422–1503 . Wagner, Innsbruck 1901, No. 5940, p. 103, and No. 5969, p. 105 ( Google Books ); incorrectly here: "Georg Bi [schof] von Vicenza".
  3. ↑ Cf. Claude Fleury , Jean Claude Fabre , Alexandre Lacroix, translated by Gasparo Gozzi : Storia ecclesiastica , Vol. XVI. Antonio Cervone, Naples 1771, pp. 73, 85 and 97 ( Google Books ).
predecessor Office successor
Conrad III. from Dhaun Elector-Archbishop of Mainz
1434–1459 		Diether von Isenburg
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich Schenk von Erbach
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich Theoderich Schenk von Erbach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Mainz (1434 to 1459)
DATE OF BIRTH 1390
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1459
Place of death Aschaffenburg