Frederick of Denmark (1532–1556)

Frederick of Denmark ( April 13, 1532 , † October 27, 1556 ) was Bishop of Hildesheim (1551–1556) and Schleswig (1551–1556).

Life

He was the youngest son of King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway and his wife Sophia of Pomerania . He was the brother of King Christian III. of Denmark , Duke Adolf and Duke Johann . The family was Protestant.

After the division of Schleswig and Holstein in 1544, the division dukes had to find a solution to provide for the youngest brother appropriately, as they did not want to split up the country any further. Negotiations with other dioceses failed. Among other things, the Archdiocese of Bremen had been considered in vain for him . The dukes forced the Protestant bishop Tilemann von Hussen and the cathedral chapter of Schleswig to accept Friedrich, who had just come of age, as coadjutor . The bishop had already had to hand over his spiritual rights to the respective sovereigns of the sub-areas. After the death of the Protestant bishop Tilemann von Hussen, Friedrich received the Schleswig monastery as a benefice , without any spiritual rights that the dukes reserved for their territories. He assured the cathedral chapter of his rights and lived with it in a problem-free relationship.

On October 3, 1551, he was also postulated as Bishop of Hildesheim, but not consecrated as a Protestant. At first he was able to win back some mortgaged property. So he released the tax forest office and the office Peine . After his death they were pledged to his brother, Duke Adolf von Holstein.

In the Diocese of Hildesheim in 1553 a comparison was made between the Protestant and the Catholic population group. This has laid down the denominational structures in the pen for the future. Among other things, he left seven churches in the city of Hildesheim to the Protestants. The Hildesheim Abbey was heavily burdened by foreign troops.

After his death, the Schleswig monastery was taken over by Duke Adolf before it was confiscated by King Friedrich II of Denmark in 1586.

Friedrich was buried in Schleswig Cathedral . A wall niche memorial was created in his memory.

ancestry

Christian I (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) (1426–1481) King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Frederick I (Denmark and Norway) (1471–1533) King of Denmark and Norway

Dorothea of ​​Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1430–1495)

Frederick of Denmark (1532–1556) Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf

Bogislaw X. (Pomerania) (1454–1523)

Sophia of Pomerania (1498–1568)

Anna Jagiellonica (1476–1503)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Johann Theodor Lau: History of the introduction and spread of the Reformation in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein up to the end of the sixteenth century. Hamburg 1867, p. 320 f.
2. ↑ Anneliser Sprengler-Ruppenthal: Collected essays on the church ordinances of the 16th century. Tübingen 2004, p. 163.
3. ^ Kai Fuhrmann: The knighthood as a political corporation in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from 1460 to 1721. Kiel 2002, p. 312.
4. ↑ Andrea Baresel-Brand: Funerary monuments of northern European princely houses in the Renaissance era 1550-1650. Kiel 2007, p. 105 ff.

literature

• Hans-Walter Krumwiede: Church history of Lower Saxony . Göttingen 1996, p. 151.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the sixteenth century . Vol. 1 Leipzig 1858, p. 534.

predecessor	Office	successor
Tilemann von Hussen	Bishop of Schleswig 1551–1556	Adolf I.
Valentin of Teutleben	Bishop of Hildesheim 1551–1556	Burchard von Oberg