Gottfried von Arnsberg

Gottfried von Arnsberg (* around 1285; † 1363 ) was Bishop of Osnabrück from 1321 to 1349 and Archbishop of Bremen from 1348 to 1359 .

Live and act

Gottfried was a younger son of Count Ludwig von Arnsberg and Pironette von Jülich, a daughter of Count Wilhelm IV. He was first canon in Münster . He was first mentioned in this capacity in 1311. A year later he was already cathedral scholastic and in 1315 cathedral provost.

From 1321 to 1349 he was bishop in Osnabrück. At the beginning of his term of office, the cathedral chapter first claimed the right to tax permits. In the 1340s, the establishment of the administrative constitution for the state castles began. In 1349 he gave up this position because he, from Pope Clement VI. supported, had been nominated by the family of the Counts of Hoya to succeed the late Archbishop of Bremen Otto I (from the House of Oldenburg). However, the canons elected Moritz Graf von Oldenburg as archbishop. During the Bremen archbishops feud, the citizens of Bremen wavered back and forth between the two camps. Gottfried was able to move into Bremen in 1350, whereupon he assured the city of its traditional rights.

Meanwhile Moritz had to leave the city. A short time later, he returned with troops and occupied Bremen. Gottfried retained the title of archbishop, but Moritz, as coadjutor, had actual control over the archbishopric.

The conflict between the two parties broke out again in the Hoya feud in 1358 . The city now supported Moritz von Oldenburg. On July 20, 1358, this side suffered the decisive defeat. After that, Gottfried was the undisputed archbishop for a short time before resigning from office in 1359. He may have moved to Count Hoya's castle . He is buried in St. George's Monastery in Stade .

literature

• Werner Künzel, Werner Rellecke: History of the free Hanseatic city of Bremen. In: Werner Künzel, Werner Rellecke (Hrsg.): History of the German countries. Developments and traditions from the Middle Ages to the present. Aschendorff, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-402-03416-6 , pp. 153-168.
• Wilhelm Kohl : The Cathedral Monastery of St. Paul in Münster (= The Diocese of Munster. Vol. 4, 2 = Germania sacra. NF Vol. 17, 2: The Dioceses of the Church Province of Cologne ). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1982, ISBN 3-11-008508-9 , p. 23 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search)

Remarks

1. ↑ Codex Juris Municipalis Germaniae Medii Aevi . Erlangen 1863, p. 336 ( digitized in the Google book search).

predecessor	Office	successor
Engelbert von Weyhe	Bishop of Osnabrück 1321–1349	Johann II hat
Otto I., from Oldenburg	Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen 1348–1359	Albert II, from Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel