Friedrich Deys

Friedrich Deys (also Friedrich Theis von Thesingen ; * around 1365 in Wünnenberg ; † May 7, 1429 ) was 1422–1424 Bishop of Lavant and 1424–1429 as Friedrich III. Bishop of Chiemsee .

Life

Friedrich Deys studied law in Prague , where he presumably also received his doctorate in canon law . When Dr. iur. can. it is first recorded for the year 1408. He was considered an outstanding lawyer and worked for some time at the Roman Curia as an auditor's clerk , papal chaplain and judge. After Pope Boniface IX. the 1403 election of Salzburg Archbishop Eberhard III. von Neuhaus reversed and, at the request of the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm, appointed the Freising Bishop Berthold von Wehingen , in 1406 Friedrich exerted decisive influence on the reinstatement of Eberhard von Neuhaus with Pope Innocent VII . This entrusted Friedrich various tasks in the Salzburg church province , including the drafting of the statutes for the clergy and their publication. For the year 1408 Friedrich is documented both as dean of Paderborn and as official and vicar general of the Archbishop of Salzburg. In this function he led a dispute with the Chiemsee archdeacon and provost of the Augustinian canons of Herrenchiemsee . Under threat of excommunication , he forbade the provost to judge matrimonial matters. The dispute was settled in favor of the archdeacon, who referred to common law.

In 1409 Friedrich was an auditor of the Rota at the Council of Pisa , in which he also participated as a representative of Archbishop Eberhard von Neuhaus and Chiemsee Bishop Engelmar Chrel . 1410 auditor of Pope Alexander V , then John XXIII. and from 1414 to 1417 curial official and auditor of the Council of Constance . There he is also recorded as auditor of Pope Martin V for the year 1418 .

Friedrich had numerous benefices . In Augsburg he was a canon and cathedral curator , in Hamburg he was a cathedral scholastic and, among other things, had the benefices of the local parish Altenmarkt. After he had litigated canons in Liège and Bressanone in Rome , he did not succeed in taking possession of them in 1422.

After the death of Lavant Bishop Wolfhard von Ehrenfels , Archbishop Eberhard von Neuhaus appointed Friedrich Deys as his successor in the spring of 1422. Since Lavant was an own bishopric of Salzburg, Friedrich also became Salzburg archdeacon for Lower Carinthia . It is known from his term of office in Lavant that he conducted an investigation on behalf of the archbishop in the Benedictine monastery of St. Georg am Längsee and subsequently deposed the abbess. In 1423 he wrote a call for donations for the Augustinian Choir Monastery in Friesach .

After the death of Bishop Engelmar Chrel from Chiemsee in 1422, there was initially a vacancy due to the archbishop's hesitant attitude. Therefore, Pope Martin V transferred the diocese of Chiemsee in 1423 to Heinrich Fleckel, the appointed bishop of Trento, as coming . Since the archbishop did not want to choose Heinrich Fleckel, he transferred Friedrich Deys in 1424 to the bishopric of Chiemsee, which had been vacant for two years. The translation was approved by the Pope on January 18, 1424, and Friedrich probably took possession of the Chiemsee diocese in April of that year. During his five-year tenure, he turned to the Curia several times with requests for an increase in his income. In addition, he tried unsuccessfully to incorporate the parish Seekirchen into the diocese of Chiemsee, which was never completed . With her in 1217, shortly after the founding of the diocese, the endowment of the Chiemsee bishop was to be improved and the bishop to be compensated for the costs associated with his stay in Salzburg. However, Friedrich had success with his efforts to reimburse the legal costs that he had incurred in connection with the canonical in Liège in 1421/22.

On behalf of Pope Martin V, Friedrich tried to find a solution to the Passau diocese dispute between Duke Albrecht V and Bishop Leonhard von Laiming, which was settled in December 1428. Like his predecessor Engelmar Chrel, Friedrich joined the so-called Igelbund . He passed away that same year. His burial place is not known.

literature

• Manfred Heim : Friedrich Deys (Theis von Thesingen) (around 1365–1429). In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , pp. 133-134.