Henry III. from Ravensburg

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Henry III. von Ravensburg († June 29, 1237 ) was Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt from 1232 to 1237.

Life

Henry III. von Ravensburg came from the Frankish Ravensburg family . The ancestral castle of this Würzburg ministerial family was the ruins of the Ravensburg near Thüngersheim today . The family made immediately before the appointment of Henry III. Talk about the Bishop of Eichstätt because of the murder of the Würzburg Bishop Konrad von Querfurt in 1202 by several family members who were involved and who were considered to be the main culprits.

Henry III. von Ravensburg was set up as bishop against Otto I. von Lobdeburg in 1212 with the approval of the Mainz metropolis . Otto I., who was expelled from Würzburg for a short time, was able to prevail. Since the von Querfurt family and the Lobdeburgers were closely related, this should be seen as a further event in the struggle for a supremacy between the two families in Würzburg.

Heinrich appeared around 1227 as a canon in Mainz and held positions in other cities as well. From 1229 he was Eichstätter canon . As a bishop, he was present several times at meetings at the imperial level. Without prior notice, he excommunicated the Count of Dollnstein-Hirschberg . An act that Pope Gregory IX. outraged, because he aimed primarily at the enforcement of their own sovereignty. Under his successor Friedrich II von Parsberg , who was hard hit by the opposition with the Count and his entourage, concessions were ultimately wrested from the county.

literature

  • Alfred Wendehorst : The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume 1: The series of bishops until 1535 (= Germania sacra. The Church of the Old Kingdom and its institutions. New series 45.). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-11-018971-2 , pp. 98-100.
  • Franz Heidingsfelder : The regests of the bishops of Eichstätt (until the end of the reign of Bishop Marquart von Hagel in 1324). Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1938.
predecessor Office successor
Heinrich II of Dischingen Bishop of Eichstätt
1232–1237 		Friedrich II of Parsberg
personal data
SURNAME Henry III. from Ravensburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1237