Heinrich XXVII. from Schwarzburg

Heinrich XXVII. von Schwarzburg (born November 13, 1440 ; † December 24, 1496 ) from the house of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg was Archbishop of Bremen as Heinrich II from 1463 to 1496 and as Heinrich III from 1466 to 1496 . Bishop of Munster .

Life

Heinrich was the second son of Heinrich XXVI. von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg († 1488) born. His mother was Elisabeth († 1489), daughter of Adolf von Kleve . He was also called the green one.

Heinrich was provost of Jechaburg in 1449 , in 1451 he was canon in Würzburg , and two years later in Cologne . On June 23, 1462 he was registered as "generosus et illustris Henricus Comes in Swartzenborch nobilis" at the old University of Cologne ( Universitas Studii Coloniensis ). At the instigation of actually being the successor of Gerhard III. Provided by the Hoye cathedral provost Johannes Rhode, Heinrich was elected Archbishop of Bremen in 1463. According to papal regulations, he was to bear the title of “ administrator ” until he was 27 years old. But he kept this when he also became Bishop of Munster in 1466. He moved his residence to Münster and continued his brother Günther XXXVII. as governor in the Bremen monastery. His grave slab is preserved on the south wall of the west crypt of Bremen Cathedral .

Heinrich was warlike and repeatedly involved in fights. He was still able to settle the dispute over Dithmarschen with Christian I of Denmark diplomatically after Pope Sixtus IV confirmed his rights to Dithmarschen in 1476. As Bishop of Munster, he took part in the struggle against Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the relief of Neuss in 1473 ; as Administrator of Bremen, he was repeatedly at odds with Count Gerhard Oldenburg . Heinrich was able to assert himself against this in 1482 and assert the claims of the Archbishopric of Bremen on the county of Delmenhorst , which he struck Münster. The relationship with the Counts of Oldenburg remained unsettled. There were also conflicts with Count Edzard von Ostfriesland.

His government had a rather negative effect on the Bremen monastery. Heinrich favored Münster, from where he pursued imperial politics and used the monastery as a source of finance for his numerous campaigns. Many of the estates were pledged, especially in the later years of his government, or fell into disrepair due to a lack of maintenance.

As a bishop, Heinrich tended towards the church reform movement. He was personally pious, was ordained bishop and made sure in the Archdiocese of Bremen and in the Diocese of Munster that the monasteries followed the Bursfeld reform. So he replaced the provost in the Cistercian abbey of Zeven. During a visit to the Frauenthal Cistercian abbey near Harvestehude , however, there were disputes with the abbot of Reinfeld , which culminated in unrest among the population against the bishop. Shortly before his death, however, he managed to carry out reforms in the Benedictine monastery in Heiligenrode . He was devoted to the Franciscans and recommended a life according to the rules of the Third Order of the Franciscans. He died in 1496 during a military expedition to East Frisia. His grave is behind the Paulus altar in Münster Cathedral .

literature

• Friedrich W Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the sixteenth century . Leipzig, 1858, p. 105. in the Google book search
• Rochus von Liliencron: The historical folk songs of the Germans . Volume 2, Leipzig, 1866 (Online No. 161 and No. 189 on Commons).
• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Heinrich II. (Archbishop of Bremen) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 505 f.
• Wilhelm Kohl: The diocese of Münster . Berlin, 1968, p. 502f. in Google Book Search

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerhard III., Von der Hoye	Archbishop of Bremen 1463–1496	Johann Rode von Wale
Johann von Pfalz-Simmern	Bishop of Münster 1466–1496	Konrad II., From Rietberg