Dietrich of Marburg

Dietrich von Marburg († November 12, 1278 ) was Dietrich II. Bishop of Gurk .

Dietrich von Marburg belonged to a Styrian ministerial family .

In October 1253 he was elected Bishop of Gurk by Salzburg's Archbishop Philipp von Spanheim and the cathedral chapter. Pope Innocent IV , who on October 14, 1253 entrusted the Bishop of Trento with the replacement of Gurk, may not have known anything about this election. Bishop Dietrich was therefore never confirmed in office by the Pope and Philip was suspended. Only the subsequent Pope Alexander IV gave Dietrich permission on February 17, 1256 to be ordained bishop. In the same year Bernhard von Spanheim's son Ulrich III followed as Duke of Carinthia . Ulrich was a brother of Philipp von Salzburg, who continued to rule in Salzburg despite the suspension. King Ottokar of Bohemia stood on the side of the Spaniards and occupied Austria since the Babenbergs died out . King Stephan V of Hungary invaded Carinthia, but was led by Ulrich III. and his ally, the Gurk bishop, repulsed. Ulrich III. henceforth called the bishop his friend.

Ulrich III died on October 27, 1269. in Cividale. His brother Philipp, who had recently become Patriarch of Aquileja through bribery , was the last member of the Spanheim family to lay claim to the Duchy of Carinthia. But the country's aristocrats declared themselves in favor of Ottokar von Böhmen and Bishop Dietrich also joined his party.

In 1273 Rudolf von Habsburg was elected German king. He enfeoffed Philip nominally with the Duchy of Carinthia and imposed on Ottokar the imperial ban . In 1274, Bishop Dietrich sided with the Habsburgs . Ottokar then overran Carinthia with war and destroyed Friesach . King Rudolf declared war on Ottokar and Ottokar was forced to an armistice in 1276. The Duchy of Carinthia fell to Rudolf. In 1278, Bishop Dietrich was again with Rudolf in Vienna, when he went to war against Ottokar again and defeated him on the Marchfeld . Shortly afterwards, on November 12th 1278, Bishop Dietrich died. He was buried in the Gurk Cathedral on the left side of the cross altar. The following year, Philipp von Spanheim died, who only wore the Carinthian ducal hat for pretense. The real lord of Carinthia had become Count Meinhard II of Tyrol, who had administered the country since 1276 and was officially enfeoffed with the duchy in 1286.

literature

• Jakob Obersteiner: The bishops of Gurk. 1072–1822 (= From Research and Art. 5, ISSN  0067-0642 ). Verlag des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1969, pp. 97–110.
• Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 .