Heinrich von Lützelburg

Heinrich von Lützelburg OFM († February 8, 1274 ) was bishop of Semgallia from 1247 to 1251 , bishop of Courland from 1251 to 1263 and bishop of Chiemsee from 1263 to 1274 .

Life

Heinrich, whose year of birth is not known, came from the Lützelburg family and belonged to the Franciscan order . In December 1247 Pope Innocent IV transferred the Livonian diocese of Semgallia to Heinrich von Lützelburg . The episcopal ordination should take place on the papal order by the archbishop of Prussia , Livonia and Estonia , Albert Suerbeer . After this did not fulfill the order, Heinrich was from his uncle, the Archbishop of Mainz Siegfried III. consecrated by Eppstein in Mainz . It is not known whether Heinrich ever stayed in Zemgale. In any case, a stay in Petershausen near Constance is documented for 1249 , where he consecrated an altar. That same year he consecrated two altars in the church of Zoffingen in Bern and granted on the Kästenburg the Cistercian nuns of the monastery Lichtenthal indulgences .

After the diocese of Semgallia was abolished on March 3, 1251 and added to the Archdiocese of Riga , Heinrich received the vacant diocese of Courland from Pope Innocent IV . There he should u. a. together with the Bishop of Ösel monitor compliance with the papal protection promise made to the Lithuanian Grand Duke Mindowe . In consultation with Gunther von Wüllersleben , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , Heinrich founded Memel Castle , which was to serve as the bishopric. After the division of Courland , he had the Grand Master set the boundaries of his district and, presumably accompanied by the Bishop of Ösel, went to northwest Germany and France. There is evidence of stays in Lübeck and Sens , where he conducted negotiations with the Livonian Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. In spring 1255 he campaigned in Hachenborn in Hesse for the reconstruction of the Augustinian women's monastery that had burned down. In April 1257 he was in his diocese and in the same year was commissioned by Pope Alexander IV to promote the crusade as a preacher in Livonia . Together with the Livonian order master Burkhard von Hornhausen, he regulated the parish organization of the parts of Courland subject to the order in Memel in 1258. He left his diocese after the Battle of Durbe in 1260, probably because of the Kurdish uprising and incursions by the Lithuanians . In any case, there is evidence of his stay in Cologne in the same year when he consecrated the church of the Minorite monastery there. With an undated document, which was presumably issued in 1262, he confirmed the properties of the Riga Cathedral Chapter , which were later repeatedly disputed.

Although the right to appoint and invest the bishops of Chiemsee belonged to the Archbishop of Salzburg, Pope Urban IV appointed Heinrich von Lützelburg as his successor after the death of Chiemsee bishop Heinrich on February 13, 1263. The interference of the Pope was justified because of the then ruling Salzburg church dispute, in which it was about the elect Philip von Spanheim . Although Heinrich did not turn against Philipp von Spanheim, he did support Wladislaw von Schlesien , who was consecrated in 1267 by his former court master and now bishop of Passau Petrus with Heinrich's assistance. Heinrich was also involved in the reconciliation with Philipp von Spanheim that took place in the same year.

It is known from Heinrich's official acts that in 1267 he consecrated the altar in the chapel of Saints Simon and Jude Thaddäus in the Cistercian monastery Raitenhaslach and in 1268 confirmed the previous privileges to the parish of Pillersee . In 1271 he granted indulgences for the Dominic altar in the church of the women's monastery in Lienz , for the construction of the church in Heiligenblut and for the Maria Magdalena chapel in Ridnaun , which had been destroyed by fire.

Heinrich von Lützelburg died on February 8, 1274. His body was probably buried in the Herrenchiemsee monastery church.

literature

• Bernhart Jähnig, Jan-Erik Beuttel, Manfred Heim: Heinrich von Lützelburg (OFM). In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198-1448. ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , pp. 128-129.

predecessor	Office	successor
Arnold	Bishop of Semgallia 1247–1251	––
––	Bishop of Courland 1251–1263	Edmund von Werth
Albert	Bishop of Chiemsee 1263–1274	Konrad von Himberg