Hartger Henot

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Hartger Henot (born February 7, 1571 in Cologne ; † December 4, 1637 there ) was a Cologne canon , lawyer and doctor of both rights. Until 1604 he also worked for his father, the imperial postmaster Jacob Henot . After the execution of his sister Catherine in 1627, he was in the course of Cologne's witch hunts in 1629 and 1631 because of sorcery accused without leading to a process.

Career

Hartger Henot was a son of the Cologne postmaster Jacob Henot and Adelheid de Haen. He went public for the first time when he traveled to Innsbruck in December 1595 as an assistant to his father Jacob Henot and on December 28, 1595 his father reached a settlement with the post office holders about the arrears. In January 1596 Hartger Henot also took part in negotiations with his father Jacob in several Italian cities. With these trips Jacob Henot was able to create the conditions for the establishment of the Imperial Post Office . On August 17, 1600, Jacob Henot, as postmaster in Cologne, signed a contract with the postmaster general Leonhard I. von Taxis from Brussels on the succession of the postmaster's office in Cologne and the Cologne - Wöllstein course , according to which Henot's son Hartger, regardless of the ordination in 1597, later Should be successor.

Church career

Hartger Henot's ecclesiastical career continued successfully despite his father's dismissal as imperial postmaster in 1603/1604. In 1603 Hartger Henot became canon in Cologne. After that, the appointment of the Great Seal Keeper and Privy Councilor was made by the Archbishop of Cologne. From 1607 he was also dean of St. Andreas in Cologne. He was appointed imperial councilor in 1608. In 1609 he was also canon in Freising . 1610 Emperor appointed him Rudolf II. For Auditor of the Rota in Rome. After a few arguments, however, he was not allowed to take the position. Henot tried, ultimately unsuccessfully, to get the Emmerich priory. In 1612 Henot headed the legation of the Archbishop of Cologne in Bavaria. The Pope awarded him the provost office of St. Maria ad Gradus in Mainz and Emperor Matthias in 1617 a provost office in Prague. On October 9, 1618, the Pope was appointed protonotary (prelate).

Dispute over the postmaster's position in Cologne

In 1603/1604 Jacob Henot was deposed as Cologne postmaster and replaced by Johann von Coesfeld . Together with his brother Seraphin and his sister Katharina, Hartger Henot supported his father in the struggle for reinstatement between 1604 and 1610 by referring to some electors and at the imperial court for him. Both brothers were accustomed since 1609 a close relationship with Archduke Leopold , with whom she fortress in July this year Jülich as part of the Jülich-Cleves succession dispute had taken.

However, he only achieved success under Emperor Ferdinand II. In 1623, Hartger Henot and his sister Katharina succeeded in reinstating his 80-year-old father before the Reichshofrat in Vienna.

The representatives of the Taxis family in Brussels and Cologne, first Lamoral and then Leonhard II , as well as the Cologne postmaster Johann von Coesfeld successfully defended themselves with petitions at the Imperial Court in Vienna. After Jacob Henot's death on November 17, 1625, Hartger Henot was not appointed postmaster, but Johann von Coesfeld, who was Cologne postmaster from 1604 to 1623. In the subsequent dispute in 1626, the emperor decided in favor of taxis. Only claims for damages were still allowed, but these were also omitted, since Katharina Henot was arrested as a witch in January 1627. Hartger Henot tried in vain to get her release. Instead, he saw that his sister Franziska was also arrested. Thereupon Hartger Henot turned to the Reich Chamber of Commerce because Katharina's imprisonment and torture violated the Carolina's current criminal code. Despite a favorable decision, Katharina was sentenced after repeated torture without confession or evidence and burned as a witch on May 19, 1627.

Witchcraft charges

After the judicial murder of Katharina Henot, Hartger Henot campaigned in several writings for the rehabilitation of his sister. However, he was accused of witchcraft in 1629 by Christina Plum , who had accused herself of being a witch. The Cologne Vicar General Johannes Gelenius stood behind Henot on November 9, 1629. In 1631, several members from respected Cologne families were again denounced and arrested on suspicion of witchcraft, including Hartger Henot and two nieces. However, following the intervention of the Cologne clergyman, Ferdinand von Bayern , who was previously a vehement hunter of witches, there was no further trial. Seraphin Henot, who acted as Chancellor in Gebweiler, first had to decide on several witchcraft matters and was then also charged with witchcraft and imprisoned. Hartger Henot wrote several long letters to Archduke Leopold asking whether this intervention was not documented. On the intervention of Emperor Ferdinand II , Seraphin Henot was released, but he lost his position as Chancellor.

Henot Foundation

The Henot Foundation, established in 1628 (in the Cologne Gymnasium and Foundation Fund) with the purpose of promoting grammar school and study, was established in 1737 by him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carolin Pecho: Prince-Bishop - Putschist - sovereign. Archduke Leopold's rulings in the age of the Thirty Years' War . Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13682-4 , pp. 169-187, 320-331 .
  2. ^ Stefan Lewejohann: Hartger Henot and the apocalyptic horsemen . In: Stefan Lewejohann (Ed.): Cologne in unholy times. The city in the Thirty Years War . Cologne, Weimar and Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22411-0 , pp. 46-49 .
personal data
SURNAME Henot, Hartger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henoth, Hartger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Cologne canon
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1637
Place of death Cologne