Erich II of Saxony-Lauenburg (Münster)
Erich von Sachsen-Lauenburg (* 1472 ; † October 20, 1522 ) was bishop of Hildesheim from 1502/1503 and bishop of Münster from 1508 to 1522 . The son of Duke Johann IV of Saxony-Lauenburg was elected Bishop of Hildesheim in 1502. In 1503 he resigned in favor of his brother Johannes IV of Sachsen-Lauenburg .
Life
Erich was the eldest son of ten children of Duke Johann IV of Saxony-Lauenburg and Dorothea of Brandenburg († 1519), daughter of Elector Friedrich II. He had early contact with the Cologne Cathedral Chapter , was proposed for a degree in 1484 and studied law (Leges, Canon Law) at the old University of Cologne ( Universitas Studii Coloniensis ).
Ordained a priest in 1487 , he was installed as a capitular on October 27, 1490 in a cathedral priest belonging to him . He had another prebend in Hildesheim. There he was elected bishop on May 21, 1502. But although Pope Alexander VI. Confirming the election and allowing the consecration , Erich resigned already before the consecration on July 12, 1503 - possibly because of the overindebtedness of the Diocese of Hildesheim - in favor of his brother Johannes. Erich returned to his Cologne prebend.
When Konrad von Rietberg , Bishop of Osnabrück and Münster died in 1508 , the Münster cathedral chapter elected Erich on February 24, 1508, despite competitors, Johann von Rietberg, nephew of the late Konrad and Cologne canon , and Franz von Waldeck .
Erich was ordained bishop in the same year and celebrated the primacy , assisted by his brother Johann and his half-brother Bernhard. During the Hildesheim collegiate feud , Erich supported his brother, the Bishop of Hildesheim. It belonged therefore the so-called Luneburg covenant that against Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Eric I of Calenberg , Bishop Francis of Minden and the Knights turned from Saldern why Emperor Charles V , the imperial ban - even over Erich - imposed .
Erich appointed his father's illegitimate son, Bernhard of Saxony , provost of Cologne and Magdeburg , to be auxiliary bishop of Münster. In the conflict with Count Klaus von Tecklenburg , known as Heckenreiter , he had the county of Lingen occupied in 1518 , but he had to vacate the county a little later. The Mecklenburg reparation claims amounted to 4,000 Rhine. Gulden, which could only be repaid in 1534 by one of his successors, Franz von Waldeck.
Between 1512 and 1515, under Bishop Erich, the two southern transept facades and the western entrance side of the Münster cathedral were redesigned with elaborate late-Gothic façades. For the prince-bishop's castle chapel in Sassenberg , where he had intended to found a collegiate monastery, he donated the Sassenberg Altar in 1517 , which also contains a representation of himself (today in the LWL Museum for Art and Culture ).
literature
- Wilhelm Kohl (arrangement): Germania Sacra . New episode, volume 37.3. De Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017592-4 (= Diocese of Munster 7. The Diocese 3 ), pp. 529-538.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans J. Böker : The late Gothic facade of the cathedral in Münster . In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch für Westdeutsche Kunstgeschichte 54, 1993, pp. 31–75. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24661525?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- ^ Paul Pieper: The Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History. The German, Dutch and Italian panels up to around 1530 . Münster 1986, pp. 307-319.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Berthold II of Landsberg |
Bishop of Hildesheim 1502–1503 |
John IV of Saxe-Lauenburg |
| Conrad VI. from Rietberg |
Bishop of Münster 1508–1522 |
Friedrich III. from Wied |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erich II of Saxe-Lauenburg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erich I of Munster |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Hildesheim and Munster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1472 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1522 |