Heinrich II of Saarbrücken

Heinrich II of Saarbrücken († September 12, 1234 ) was Bishop of Worms from 1217 until his death .

Life

Heinrich came from the dynasty of the Counts of Saarbrücken , who owned the Bailiwick of the Worms Monastery until 1156 . His parents were Count Simon II of Saarbrücken and Liutgard von Leiningen , a daughter of Count Emichos III. Heinrich is documented as provost of the collegiate monastery St. Cyriakus in Neuhausen from 1212 to 1213 and as provost of the cathedral in Worms in 1215 . In 1217 he was elected with a majority of votes to succeed Leopold von Schönfeld as Bishop of Worms. However, Gerbodo, the provost of St. Paul , claimed that he had also been subsequently elected bishop. From Pope Honorius III. a commission was set up to clarify the claims. Heinrich was confirmed in his office by the Pope in 1218, which Gerbodo did not accept. A second investigation confirmed Heinrich's choice. In return for the granting of the regalia , Emperor Friedrich II demanded the enfeoffment with Wimpfen , where Friedrich I had founded a palace. With the approval of the cathedral chapter and the city of Worms, Heinrich bowed to the demand in 1220, but Frederick's son Heinrich (VII.) Was not given a final loan until 1227 in return for a payment of 1,300 silver marks .

Under Heinrich, the Worms bishopric also lost territories to the Electoral Palatinate , which was able to acquire the county of Stahlbühl north of Ladenburg in 1225 and Neckarau before 1232 . During Heinrich's tenure there was a conflict with the city of Worms. The patriciate tried to enforce the rule of the council, while the bishop insisted on tax exemption from benefices and assets of the Worms clergy. Heinrich found the support of the spiritual princes and the emperor, who ordered the dissolution of the council. In 1233 a compromise was reached with the mediation of Heinrich (VII.). The council, previously independent of the bishop, was reduced in size and came under the strong influence of the bishop.

The Franciscans settled in Worms in 1221, followed by the Dominicans in 1226 , whose settlement met with fierce resistance from the Worms clergy despite the support of the Pope. The order was not allowed to settle in the city until 1232. In 1226 the bishop also founded the Cistercian convent of Kirschgarten , southwest of the city wall.

After his death, Heinrich von Saarbrücken was buried in the Worms Cathedral ; the historian Georg Helwich reports the location and appearance of the grave slab there.

Family environment in Leiningen

His brother Friedrich von Saarbrücken († 1237), married to Agnes von Eberstein, the daughter of Count Eberhard von Eberstein , took the name of Count von Leiningen due to his maternal descent . These were extinct in the male line around 1220 when his uncle Count Friedrich I von Leiningen (brother of his mother) died. Friedrich von Saarbrücken, now called Friedrich II. Von Leiningen , founded the second (younger) lineage of the Leiningen counts. His sons, Friedrich III. von Leiningen , Emich IV. von Leiningen-Landeck († 1281), as well as the bishops Heinrich von Leiningen (Speyer) and Berthold von Leiningen (Bamberg) were the biological nephews of Bishop Heinrich II. von Saarbrücken regardless of the different family name. Another nephew was the Bishop of Worms Emich I († 1299), from the Raugrafen family .

literature

• Burkhard Keilmann: Heinrich von Saarbrücken . In: Erwin Gatz (ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , pp. 262-263 .
• Johann Georg Lehmann : Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces of the Bavarian Palatinate . Volume III: Documented history of the Counts' House of Leiningen-Hartenburg and Westerburg . Kaiserslautern 1857 (reprinted by Pirmasens 1969).

Web links

• Heinrich II of Saarbrücken. In: Saarland biographies

Individual evidence

1. ^ Foundations of Medieval Genealogy: Upper Lotharingian Nobility. Ch. 14: Counts of Saarbrücken.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Stürner : Friedrich II. Volume 1: The royal rule in Sicily and Germany 1194-1220 . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-17414-3 , pp. 213 .
3. ↑ Website for the grave plate

predecessor	Office	successor
Leopold II of Schönfeld	Bishop of Worms 1217–1234	Landolf von Hoheneck