Henry III. Bockholt

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Henry III. Bockholt, portrait by Jacob van Utrecht (1523)

Heinrich Bockholt (also: Bokholt, Buchholtz ; * 1463 in Hamburg ; † March 15, 1535 ibid) was named Heinrich III. last Catholic bishop of Lübeck .

Life

Bockholt was the son of the Hamburg tailor and councilor Eberhard (Ewert) Bockholt and his wife Anna, a daughter of Heinrich Arnd († 1467). He was thus a nephew of Dietrich II. Arndes , who should not have had any insignificant influence on him. His parents made sure that he got a good basic education. He studied at the University of Rostock in 1478 , where he obtained his bachelor's degree in the winter semester of 1479/80 and his master's degree in the seven liberal arts in 1481/82 . Following a law degree, he went to the University of Cologne and from there to Italy .

Financially secured by a diaconate in Udine , he can be found in 1487 at the University of Bologna . In Italy he also appears to have obtained a doctorate in law . After spending some time in Rome , where he became papal familiar and protonotary , he returned to Germany. Here you can find him in 1493 as vicar at Lübeck Cathedral . In addition, he had acquired other church benefices as provost in Ratzeburg , as dean in Hildesheim , as vicar in Hamburg, as archdeacon in Stapel and in 1508 as provost in Lübeck.

On June 19, 1523 he was elected bishop by the Lübeck cathedral chapter . After receiving his papal confirmation on August 31, 1523, he was introduced to the office on March 6, 1524. In the year he took office, the influence of the Reformation began to increase in his diocese . As a vehement representative of the Catholic Church, he tried to fight the burgeoning Lutheran doctrine, but could not record any success in this fight, which was also due to the tense situation between the council, citizens and cathedral chapter. After the council and citizens had agreed in 1531 to introduce the Evangelical Lübeck church order of Johannes Bugenhagen , the bishop lost more and more influence in Lübeck and withdrew completely to Eutin . When the Lübeck troops under Marx attacked Meyer Eutin at the end of May 1534 in connection with the Count Feud, he fled to Hamburg, where he died of poisoning a year later.

Books from his estate ended up in the cathedral library at the city ​​library (Lübeck) . His copy of Johannes de Imola: Lectura in tertium librum Decretalium , Venice: Bernardinus Stagninus 1500, which he acquired in Rome in 1511, came to the Soviet Union as looted art after being outsourced during World War II and is now in the Tomsk University Library .

Portraits

From Heinrich III. Bockholt has two portrait paintings from 1523/24 that Max J. Friedländer attributed to Jacob van Utrecht . One of them, which was in the Parisian art trade in 1939, ended up in the collection of Hermann Göring and was returned to France after 1945. It then went to the Nureyev Collection and was auctioned off at Christie's in New York in 1995 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Heinrich Bockholt's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Ernst Schäfer: Register for the matriculation of the University of Rostock. Vol. 1: Person and place register AO, p. 121 Rostock 1919 ( online );
    See also the corresponding entries in the Rostock matriculation portal: doctorate for bachelor's degree and doctorate for master’s degree
  3. ↑ Knod: German students in Bologna (1289-1562): Biographical Index of the Acta Universitatis nationis germanicae Bononiensis.
  4. ^ Johann Martin Lappenberg : Hamburg Chronicles in Lower Saxony. Hamburg 1861, p. 582
  5. ^ Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : History of the Diocese of Ratzeburg. Lübeck 1838
  6. ↑ Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen , Andreas Ludwig Jacob Michelsen : Schleswig-Holstein Church History - based on manuscripts left behind. Kiel 1877, Volume 3, p. 79
  7. ↑ Digitized copy, ownership note at the beginning: Liber Henrici Bockholt legum doctoris prepositi ac canonici Lubecensis decani Hildensis archidiaconi Ratzeburgensis prothonotarii apostolici. Emptus Rome 1511 ; see. Incunable catalog of the city library No. 722 ;
  8. ^ Max J. Friedländer : News about Jacob van Utrecht. In: Oud Holland 58 (1941), pp. 6–17 ( digitized version , JSTOR ), here pp. 7f no. 7 and 11. “The portrait resemblance of the two photos is alarmingly low. The identity of the sitter cannot be doubted, especially since the same pectoral cross can be seen in both portraits "
  9. ^ Art collection Hermann Göring: data sheet RMG01608: Portrait of a Bishop of Lübeck (Heinrich Bockholt) , accessed on March 8, 2019
  10. ^ Art Prize Yearbook 50 (1995), p. 681
predecessor Office successor
John VIII Grimholt Bishop of Lübeck
1523 - 1535 		Detlev von Reventlow
personal data
SURNAME Bockholt, Heinrich III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henrich Bokholt, Buchholtz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1463
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1535
Place of death Hamburg