Gottfried von Waldeck

Gottfried von Waldeck (* around 1255 / 1260 ; † 14. May 1324 ), and Gottfried von Minden called, was from 1304 to 1324 Bishop of Minden .

Life

He was the second son of Count Heinrich III. von Waldeck and his wife Mechthild von Cuyk-Arnsberg , a daughter of Count Gottfried III. from Arnsberg. He came from the Waldeck family . Gottfried, his older brother Adolf and the youngest, Otto , had signed a treaty regarding the successor to their grandfather Adolf I , according to which the Count of Waldeck, Sophie (1264-1331), the daughter of Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse, was to become would marry. Since this condition was fulfilled by the youngest brother, Adolf and Gottfried left as heirs after Otto's marriage (probably in 1275).

Both entered the clergy. Gottfried is mentioned in 1279 as the capitular of the St. Petrus Foundation in Fritzlar . He was also canon in Cologne , Liège , Utrecht , Würzburg and Thesaurar in Münster .

In 1304 he was elected Bishop of Minden. In the same year he had a diocesan synod held against violating church laws. In particular, she opposed the breaking of the celibacy of world priests: those who notoriously kept concubines should be suspended and lose their benefices. In 1305, with the approval of the cathedral chapter, he had to pledge Staygerberch Castle in order to use the money to redeem another castle that had previously been pledged. Also in 1305 he began to completely rebuild Petershagen Castle . This was originally intended to protect against the Counts of Hoya and was manned by ministerials from the bishop.

Because of the dispute between Gottfried and the citizens of Minden about certain offices, Gottfried was forced to move his residence to Petershagen (the castle remained the residence of the bishops even after Gottfried's death). The citizens even signed an assistance agreement with Count Adolf VI. von Schaumburg and Count Gerhard II von Hoya, who also planned a siege of Petershagen if necessary. This did not happen because in the meantime the knight Heinrich von Münchhausen had secretly built a castle on the Weser island Laswerder and Adolf von Schaumburg allied himself with Gottfried and a little later with Gerhard von Hoya against Heinrich von Münchhausen. The contract with the citizens of Minden was then invalid. The conflict between the bishop and the city of Minden was resolved in 1311 against this background.

After his death, Gottfried was buried behind the St. Petrus Altar in Minden Cathedral.

literature

Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen : Basis of the Waldeck country and regent history . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1825, pp. 332–337

Web links

Gottfried von Waldeck personal database at Germania Sacra

Individual evidence

↑ See contradicting: Wentz, Gottfried; Schwineköper, Berent: Germania sacra: The Archdiocese of Magdeburg, vol. 1, part 1, the cathedral monastery of St. Moritz in Magdeburg, ed. v. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for German History, Max Planck Institute for History, 1972, p. 480: “Gottfried ( Gobelo Graf ) von Waldeck, son of Count Heinrich I. v. W. and the Mechtild von Arnsberg, who were likely to have married in 1254 or shortly before, at least had no child in 1254. ”(Westfälisches Urkundenbuch 4, Nr. 552, S. 330 f.).
↑ Anton, Johann; Theiner, Augustin: The introduction of forced celibacy among the Christian clergy and its consequences - A contribution to church history, Barmen 1892, vol. 2, p. 592.
↑ Nathalie Kruppa: Emancipation from the Bishop - On the relationship between bishop and city using the example of Minden, in: Bishop and Citizen - Dominance Relationships in the Cathedral Cities of the High and Late Middle Ages , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2004 (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History, 206), ISBN 3-525-35858-X , pp. 85 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ludolf von Rostorf	Bishop of Minden 1304-1324	Ludwig of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

personal data
SURNAME	Gottfried von Waldeck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gottfried von Minden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Minden
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1255
DATE OF DEATH	May 14, 1324

[1] See contradicting: Wentz, Gottfried; Schwineköper, Berent: Germania sacra: The Archdiocese of Magdeburg, vol. 1, part 1, the cathedral monastery of St. Moritz in Magdeburg, ed. v. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for German History, Max Planck Institute for History, 1972, p. 480: “Gottfried ( Gobelo Graf ) von Waldeck, son of Count Heinrich I. v. W. and the Mechtild von Arnsberg, who were likely to have married in 1254 or shortly before, at least had no child in 1254. ”(Westfälisches Urkundenbuch 4, Nr. 552, S. 330 f.).

[2] Anton, Johann; Theiner, Augustin: The introduction of forced celibacy among the Christian clergy and its consequences - A contribution to church history, Barmen 1892, vol. 2, p. 592.

[3] Nathalie Kruppa: Emancipation from the Bishop - On the relationship between bishop and city using the example of Minden, in: Bishop and Citizen - Dominance Relationships in the Cathedral Cities of the High and Late Middle Ages , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2004 (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History, 206), ISBN 3-525-35858-X , pp. 85 f.