Heinrich II. Basedow

Heinrich Basedow , also Heinrich Basenu or Heinrich II. Basedow († 1523 ), was a bishop of Courland and thus a priest of the Teutonic Order .

Life

Coat of arms of Bishop Heinrich Basedow (below) in the Brotze collection

Heinrich Basedow came from the Lübeck branch of the Basedow family and was a son of Councilor Dietrich Basedow from his first marriage to Heleke Lüneburg . He had 21 siblings. Jordan Basedow from his father's second marriage was a canon in 1530 and a member of the 64 committee and after the Reformation a councilor. He was ennobled in 1552. Heinrich Basedow enrolled at the University of Rostock in 1484 . In 1499 Basedow was a canon in Dorpat . He was born in Rome on February 12, 1501appointed by the Pope as Bishop of Courland to succeed Michael Sculteti, who died after November 4, 1500 . On April 12, 1515 he certified a coat of arms for Heinrich Wessel (Wesseler) from the Valant court, which was based on the Basedow coat of arms. This was a unique event during the religious era.

In 1518 he chose the Dorpater cathedral chapter to succeed Bishop Christian Bornhower, who died on April 15, 1518 . However, the Pope pushed through his favorite Johann von Blankenfelde . In 1519 he is said to have come into conflict with Grand Master Albrecht of Prussia . On February 23, 1523 Basedow was mentioned for the last time in a document. As early as June 1523, the Grand Master of the Order Albrecht of Prussia suggested electing a new bishop, which suggests that Basedow had already died. In 1524 his successor Hermann Konnenberg took over the office. His grave slab is in the Johanniskirche in Hasenpoth .

See also

• List of bishops of the Teutonic Order

literature

• Leonid Arbusow : Livonia's clergy from the end of the 12th to the 16th century , Steffenhagen, 1904
• Ernst Friedrich Mooyer : Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD , Minden 1854, p. 100 .
• Karl Eduard Napiersky : Index corporis historico-diplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae, Curoniae. Riga and Dorpat 1835, Volume 2, p. 367

Individual evidence

1. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Verlag Max Schmidt-Römhild , 2nd edition Lübeck 1925. Unchanged reprint Lübeck 1978 ISBN 3795005000 , no. 563
2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ↑ Representation of the coat of arms u. a. in the yearbook for genealogy, heraldry and sphragistics , 1897, p. 9ff, grant of the coat of arms s. Website of the Herder Institute , Kurländische Güterurkunden, Urk. Bauer 358, 357a; s. a. German Family Archives , 1986, vol. 93, p. 120.
4. ↑ Illustration of the grave slab around 1940 in the picture index of art and architecture .

predecessor	Office	successor
Michael Sculteti	Bishop of Kurland 1501 - 1524	Hermann II. Konnenberg