Heinrich IV. (Berchtesgaden)

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Heinrich († 1351 ), as Heinrich IV., Was provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery from 1333 to 1351 .

Nothing is available about the circumstances of his election as the successor to Conrad IV . However, during his reign, relations with the Habsburgs intensified.

As provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery, Heinrich IV was still subject to the metropolitan authority of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . It was not until 1455 that the monastery was able to get rid of it and was then subordinate to the Pope in spiritual matters. But the secular independence of the Stiftspropstei began to manifest itself as early as 1294 through the acquisition of blood jurisdiction for serious offenses. Thus Heinrich IV was equal in rank to the imperial princes .

After decades of confusion between the monastery and the Archdiocese of Salzburg, he benefited from the complaints of Conrad IV, who thus presented the Salzburg Archbishop Friedrich III. the promise that since then production and export of the Schellenberger salt through the area of ​​the ore monastery has been allowed to proceed unhindered.

Half a year before his death, Heinrich IV still had a dispute about the Bailiwick of Jettenstetten and Weidenbach. The Pope Clement VI called upon for this purpose . transferred the judgment on October 29, 1350 to the Abbot of Tegernsee . The judgment passed in Salzburg on April 1, 1351 awarded the bailiwick against a settlement sum to the monastery. However, the Pope had to be tried again in Avignon on May 30, 1351, so that the claims for the severance payment could be settled with 300 marks under threat of church punishment and Duke Stephan II of Bavaria also recognized the arbitration award. Henry IV did not live to see the settlement of this dispute; he died before April 1, 1351.

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Ludwig Ganghofer used Heinrich IV. In his historical novel Der Klosterjäger as a model for a “benevolent provost” within the author's “idealized monastery life”.

literature

  • Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, Berchtesgaden 1991, 405-408
  • Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , Berchtesgaden 1986, ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 50-60.
  • A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. pp. 100, 108-109, 261-262.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991. pp. 405-408
  2. Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 50-51
  3. According to A. Helm , the episcopal insignia received after him as early as 1254 are already a sign of direct papal suzerainty to which the monastery would have been subject since then. See A. Helm: Berchtesgaden through the ages , keyword: History of the country, p. 109
  4. A. Helm: Berchtesgaden in the course of time, keyword: history of the country, pp. 108-109
  5. Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 59-60
  6. ^ Emil Karl Braito: Ludwig Ganghofer and his time . Löwenzahn, 2005 - 651 pages; P. 259