Friedrich IV of Wied

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Count Friedrich von Wied (* around 1518; † December 23, 1568 ) was Friedrich IV's Archbishop and Elector of Cologne from 1562 to 1567 .

Life

Friedrich was born around 1518 as the son of Count Johann III. zu Wied , Herr zu Runkel and Isenburg (* around 1475; † 1533) and his wife, Countess Elisabeth von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1488; † 1559). Among his siblings were the abbess Magdalena von Wied-Runkel von Nottuln and Elten , Margarethe von Wied-Runkel and Count Johann IV von Wied-Runkel († 1581). He was related by marriage to Count Anton I von Isenburg-Büdingen-Ronneburg-Kelsterbach , Count Ludwig and Wolfgang von Stolberg-Königstein , Count Friedrich Magnus I von Solms-Laubach , Countess Katharina von Hanau-Münzenberg and the imperial heir-tavern Christoph III . Schenk von Limpurg-Gaildorf (1531–1574).

Since 1534 provost of the Cassius monastery at Bonn Minster , Friedrich became canon in Cologne on August 31, 1537 . After he had renounced his provost office in Bonn in 1546, the Cologne cathedral chapter elected him on December 12, 1548 as choir bishop , on July 3, 1549 as thesaurary , on August 23, 1558 as sub-dean and on November 23, 1558 as cathedral dean . From 1559 to 1562 he was provost of the Servatius monastery in Maastricht .

On November 19, 1562 he was elected Archbishop of Cologne with 16 out of 19 votes. However, he refused an oath on the Catholic Church renewed by the Council of Trent (the so-called Professio fidei Tridentinae ), so that he received no papal confirmation of his election. His rejection, however, was not based on reasons of faith, rather he viewed it as an imposition to a ruling ruler.

Again and again accused in Rome as a secret Protestant , he asked the Pope to name the informers. Even if these were not mentioned to him, the Pope assured him that he did not believe them. Nevertheless, he insisted on making the creed and receiving ordination as priests and bishops.

As Archbishop Friedrich was an efficient and thrifty administrator, but he was constantly at odds with the cathedral chapter . While he stood idly by the influences of the Reformation within his diocese, the cathedral chapter tried to preserve Catholicism within the Archdiocese of Cologne. The Archbishop rejected the efforts of the Wetterau counts to persuade him to make another attempt at Protestantization of the archbishopric.

Overweight and also hard of hearing, so that it was difficult to talk to him, Friedrich was not a friend of great effort and found it difficult to bring himself to decisions. The growing problems in the archbishopric, as well as the intransigence of Pope Pius V with regard to the Confessio fidei , exacerbated by the decline in imperial support, led to his resignation as archbishop on August 7, 1567. Then again in Rome to seek an extension of his term of office, this was granted to him until November 25, 1567. In the following months, a pension arrangement for him was negotiated and a withdrawal contract was drawn up. This signed on October 24, 1567 only after persuasion by the imperial ambassadors. The contract was published two days later.

Friedrich von Wied spent the last year of his life in Cologne, where he led a secluded existence. He died in Cologne on December 23, 1568, and found his grave in the Dominican Church , which was demolished after the secularization.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family tree of the mediatized house of Wied , 1884, pp. 4, 5 ( dilibri.de )
predecessor Office successor
Johann Gebhard von Mansfeld Elector-Archbishop of Cologne
1562–1567 		Salentin of Isenburg
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich IV of Wied
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wied, Friedrich IV. Of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH around 1518
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1568