Heinrich von Mering

Heinrich von Mering (* 1620 in Cologne ; † April 4, 1700 in Cologne) was canon in Cologne.

After studying at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome and in 1655 at the University of Cologne as a Dr. jur. doctorate, he became canon in Cologne on September 16, 1658. Since June 30, 1661 also canon of St. Ursula (Cologne), Mering later also acquired the provost of St. Gertrud in Augsburg .

Archbishop Maximilian Heinrich of Bavaria valued him as a legal advisor and made him president of the court. His diplomatic activity began as a companion of the nuncio Fabio Chigi to the Westphalian Congress and the French diplomats of the 70s and 80s of the 17th century valued him as a good man who was also the most hard-drinking member of the Cologne cathedral chapter . Ecclesiastically, he was the author and leader of the diocesan synod of 1662.

Mering was considered a friend of Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg , who was the extended arm of the King of France in Germany. When he was kidnapped in February 1674 by the German Kaiser, he felt so threatened that he asked the agents of the French king to take him into their home. Already for a long time with a French pension of 400 thalers, he elected Fürstenberg as archbishop in 1688 and then announced the election in the high choir of Cologne Cathedral . This was an open break with the emperor and the empire. So he had to flee to Strasbourg with the other supporters of Fürstenberg in April 1689 , but soon began negotiations with the Prime Minister of the Electorate of Cologne, Johann Friedrich Karg von Bebenburg . In the first days of September 1689 he was able to return to Cologne, where he no longer appeared.

In December 1698 he renounced his cathedral canonical in favor of his nephew Heinrich Friedrich von Mering .

Web links

• Tomb of Heinrich von Mering

See also

List of Cologne Cathedral Lords , List of Cologne Cathedral Props , List of Cologne Cathedral Deans , List of Cologne Officials