Friedrich II of Parsberg (Eichstätt)

Gravestone in Eichstätter Cathedral

Friedrich II. Von Parsberg , also Friedrich II. Von Beratzhausen († June 28, 1246 ) was Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt from 1237 to 1246.

origin

Friedrich II von Parsberg came from the von Parsberg family , named after Beratzhausen from a sideline (see also list of Bavarian noble families ). The eponymous Parsberg is today a town in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate , today the Beratzhausen market is located in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg . In the sources the bishop appears as both de Berhardeshusen and de Parsperc .

Life

Friedrich II. Von Parsberg was named from 1229 as Eichstätter canon and other offices.

As bishop he appeared at a provincial synod in Mainz, where he called for support against Count Gebhardt IV von Dollnstein-Hirschberg and his affiliated ministers and citizens in Eichstätt. This conflict went to the excommunication of Count von Dollnstein-Hirschberg under his predecessor Heinrich III. von Ravensburg , whose importance Frederick II reinforced by the fact that King Conrad IV confirmed to him in Hagenau in 1237 that excommunicated people could not be enfeoffed. The count's faction was evidently so strong that they drove the bishop and his spiritual supporters out of Eichstätt before the synod, elected lay people as their successors and plundered the cathedral sacristy. After the murder of Count Gebhard III. von Dollnstein-Hirschberg during the siege of the episcopal castle Nassenfels , Count Gebhardt IV finally made concessions to the bishop in 1245.

In 1240 Albert Behaim commissioned Friedrich II to impose the interdict over Nuremberg, Weißenburg and Greding, which Emperor Friedrich had sent auxiliary troops to Italy. Here Friedrich II tried, like other bishops, to mediate between the emperor and the pope, for which the stay of Conrad IV in Nördlingen offered the opportunity. When he did not comply with further demands of Albert Behaim, the latter imposed excommunication on him and, a little later, on the Eichstätter cathedral chapter, because it supported the bishop. The excommunication did not, however, have any serious consequences.

The tombstone erected today was found under the wooden floor of the Johanneskapelle. It was not made until the end of the 16th century.

literature

• Alfred Wendehorst : The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume 1: The series of bishops until 1535 (= Germania sacra. The Church of the Old Kingdom and its institutions. New series 45.). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-11-018971-2 , pp. 101-104.
• Franz Heidingsfelder : The regests of the bishops of Eichstätt (until the end of the reign of Bishop Marquart von Hagel in 1324) . Palm & Enke Erlangen 1938.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry III. from Ravensburg	Bishop of Eichstätt 1237 - 1246	Henry IV of Württemberg