Franz Kaspar von Franken-Siersdorf

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Franz Kaspar von Franken-Siersdorf

Franz Kaspar von Franken-Siersdorf (also: Franz Caspar von Francken-Siersdorf; born November 22, 1683 in Cologne ; † February 6, 1770 ibid) was auxiliary bishop in Cologne and professor of theology at the old University of Cologne .

Life

Franken-Siersdorf was the youngest of 12 children of the court councilor Andreas Francken von Sierstorpff and his wife Catharina Magdalena, born in Cologne. von Buschmann, and was baptized the day after his birth in the St. Aposteln church in Cologne . Intended for a spiritual career as a child, he began his school education in 1691 and received a certificate of suitability for his first canonical on September 29, 1697. He obtained this in 1699 at St. Severin in Cologne. After he was ordained a subdeacon on December 22nd, 1703 , he went to Rome in 1704 to study . Returned in September 1706, he was ordained a deacon on October 3, 1706 in Cologne . Shortly afterwards he went back to Rome to study and received his doctorate from the Collegium Sapientiae there on October 13, 1710. jur. utr. Then he finally returned to his homeland. On October 24, 1705 he had already obtained the position of scholaster at St. Severin . In 1711 he became a professor at the law and artist faculty of the medieval university in Cologne and, as the successor to his brother Peter Josef von Franken-Siersdorf Regens, of the Bursa Laurentiana . After he was ordained a priest on July 2, 1712 , he also succeeded his brother as a canon in Cologne on April 23, 1713 . After he was elected dean to St. Severin on September 3, 1717, he received a canonical to St. Maria in the Capitol and another to St. Ursula on January 7, 1726 , to which, however, on July 24, 1739 in favor his cousin Ferdinand Eugen von Franken-Siersdorf renounced. He was also rector of Cologne University from October 14, 1720 to October 18, 1724 and from August 28, 1723 monastery commissioner in the sister monastery of Bethlehem in Cologne.

Between October 31, 1723 and November 12, 1723 Archbishop Joseph Clemens of Bavaria designated Franken-Siersdorf as auxiliary bishop. By the death of the Pope and the Archbishop, his appointment was delayed titular bishop of Rodiopolis until 12 June 1724 so that his brother Peter Joseph, now bishop of Antwerp , him in his private chapel to Antwerp until July 30, 1724 consecration could donate ; Co- consecrators were Jakob Hesche von Vellers , Cistercian abbot in Namur, and Gerhard Rudens , Cistercian abbot from Locus d. Bernardi.

Act as a bishop

Since 1736 commissioner for the Cologne seminary , important spiritual impulses came from him. In the clergy and chapters he was considered, who renounced the office of regent in 1730, as a learned, morally pure and influential man.

On July 24, 1743 he gave the Vilich pastor Conrad Broichhausen the order to bless the chapel in Hangelar.

On August 2, 1750 , together with Ambrosius Specht, the elected Gladbach Benedictine abbot, he appointed Gabriel Hilger as Steinfeld abbot in his house chapel .

In 1753 he visited Brilon on a company trip . The magistrate gathered at the upper gate to receive the bishop on his journey from Winterberg. He was greeted "with flying flags, sounding games and a volley of muskets". The next day he confirmed the confirmands.

In 1752 he resigned to his canonical office and his office as monastery dean at St. Severin and also to his cathedral canonical he resigned in 1764 in favor of his nephew Ferdinand Eugen von Franken-Siersdorf .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipp Faust: Local and parish history Hangelar. Förderverein St. Anna Hangelar, December 11, 2015, accessed on April 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ http://www.kreis-ahrweiler.de/kvar/VT/hjb1991/hjb1991.21.htm
  3. ↑ Bernhard Brökel, Semper Idem History Association (ed.): Past times. Pp. 16-17 (Treasury book from 1753 and council minutes in the city archive).
personal data
SURNAME Franken-Siersdorf, Franz Kaspar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Francken-Siersdorf, Franz Caspar von; Francken-Sierstorpff, Franz Kaspar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1770
Place of death Cologne