Dietrich von Deidesheim

Dietrich von Deidesheim (* around 1305 in Deidesheim ; † around 1360 ) was a German cleric . He was chancellor of the Archdiocese and Electorate of Trier , most recently probably in the role of Chancellor.

Life

Dietrich von Deidesheim was probably the son of a noble episcopal official who lived in the castle in Deidesheim . He was probably a relative of Richard von Deidesheim (around 1200-1278), a dean of the Wimpfen monastery . When Dietrich was young, Baldwin von Luxemburg (around 1285-1354) was the administrator of the Speyer Monastery , to which Deidesheim belonged. As such, Baldwin of Luxembourg had to reorganize the secular administration, which had been very neglected under Bishop Walram von Veldenz ; Dietrich von Deidesheim was possibly a confidante of Baldwin of Luxembourg in the Deidesheim castle and then came into the administration of the Electorate of Trier.

After he had studied theology and law , the first written evidence from Dietrich von Deidesheim can be found in 1336: a letter from him has survived, which he sent to the archdeacon Boemund von on September 23 of this year from a field camp near Erfurt in Avignon Saarbrücken and wrote to Rudolf Losse ; both were members of the electoral chancellery. He addressed both of them as his masters and signed the letter with "poor Dyderich"; so he had no benefice at this point . This leads to the conclusion that he was probably no more than 30 years old at the time. In the letter he describes, on the one hand, the disputes with the city of Erfurt, which wanted to dispute the old Electoral Mainz rights and which Baldwin of Luxembourg tried to enforce; on the other hand, he tells about what happened in the camp. Dietrich von Deidesheim seems to have been a man with a sense of humor: He wrote how he discovered “two naked guys” who were having fun with a pretty woman and that he had a stuffed cow's stomach brought in, the contents of which he told about the three of them at their rendezvous poured out what, according to Dietrich, should have amused the Mainz cathedral dean and Johannes von Bassenheim very much. Finally, Dietrich, who comes from a wine region, mentioned that heavenly wines have grown in the current year.

The next written mention of Dietrich can be found in a papal decree of December 3, 1342. With this, Pope Clemens VI. the entitlement to a benefice at the Church of St. Florin in Koblenz , with which no residence obligation was connected. Presumably Dietrich was helped by the intercession of his Archbishop Baldwin of Luxembourg and that of Rudolf Losse, who often represented Baldwin of Luxembourg in Avignon. In this decree, the Pope emphasized the righteousness of Dietrich von Deidesheim. After Dietrich von Deidesheim had become a canon , in all likelihood he rose to become chancellor and head of the Trier administrative authority; As the historian Edmund Ernst Stengel pointed out, his name was mentioned several times as the person responsible in documents, who issued instructions from his archbishop to the notaries and carried out important financial transactions - tasks that were performed by the owners of the Chancellery.

The last time Dietrich von Deidesheim was mentioned in writing was in 1352 in the will of Johannes Jaketonis, who was dean of the Simeonstift in Trier and who gave Dietrich von Deidesheim legates . It is not known when and where Dietrich von Deidesheim died; also where he was buried is not known.

Surname

Contemporary names of Dietrich von Deidesheim in documents are "Theodericus de Didinesheim", "Theodericus de Didesheim" and "Dedericus de Didenshey (m)". He calls himself "Dyderich" at the end of a letter.

literature

• Arnold Siben : Dietrich von Deidesheim . In: Palatinate Museum - Palatinate local history . No. 44 , 1927, pp. 96-98 .
• Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities . Arwid Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 1998, ISBN 3-9804668-2-5 , p. 127 .

Remarks

1. ↑ The letter is printed in Edmund Ernst Stengel's work Nova Alamanniae .