Emicho Wildgraf von Kyrburg

Emicho on a painting in the Fürstengang Freising

Emicho's coat of arms in the Fürstengang Freising

Wildgrave Emicho († July 28, 1311 ), from the family of the Wildgraves , was 29th Prince-Bishop of Freising from 1283 to 1311 .

family

He was a son of Emich, Wildgraf von Kyrburg († 1289) and his wife Elisabeth von Montfort , daughter of Count Hugo von Montfort and sister of Bishop Heinrich I of Chur († 1272).

His father's brothers were Gerhard , Archbishop of Mainz, Heinrich, Abbot of St. Maximin in Trier and Konrad II , Bishop of Freising.

Emicho's brother Friedrich Wildgraf von Kyrburg was the Upper German provincial master of the Templar Order . This and his other brothers Gerhard, Konrad, Godefrid and Hugo ( Canon of Mainz ) appear in a document as benefactors of the Templars coming to Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse .

Live and act

In 1284 he acquired the dominion of Burgrain with market and Isen monastery , then in 1294 the counties of Partenkirchen and Mittenwald ( Werdenfels ). He dissolved the diocese from the bailiwick and the district court of the Bavarian dukes, and the Freising bishop was henceforth sovereign in the Hochstift Freising . The crowned Mohrenkopf in the coat of arms, which is typical for the Freising bishops and indicates the imperial immediacy , appeared as a crowned Ethiopian ("caput aethiopis") for the first time in 1284 in the coat of arms of Emichos.

literature

Ernst Klebel: Emicho. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 478 ( digitized version ).
Georg Schwaiger : The county of Werdenfels in the prince-bishop's monastery Freising. In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte (ZBLG) 60 (1997), pp. 521-538, in particular pp. 529 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ "Wildgraf in Kyrburg and Schmidtburg, Emich II.". Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
↑ Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution , p. 126 u. 133, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-515-07878-9 ; (Digital scan)
↑ Entry in the Templerlexikon of the University of Hamburg, on the Templerhaus Kirchheim

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich von Montalban	Bishop of Freising 1283-1311	Gottfried von Hexenagger

personal data
SURNAME	Wild count of Kyrburg, Emicho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Emicho von Freising
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Freising
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	July 28, 1311

[1] "Wildgraf in Kyrburg and Schmidtburg, Emich II.". Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[2] Winfried Dotzauer: History of the Nahe-Hunsrück area from the beginnings to the French Revolution , p. 126 u. 133, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-515-07878-9 ; (Digital scan)

[3] Entry in the Templerlexikon of the University of Hamburg, on the Templerhaus Kirchheim