Henry II of Trent

Heinrich († between April 13 and July 31, 1289 , probably buried in Rome ) was a priest in the Teutonic Order and Bishop of Trento .

The priest of the Teutonic Order was protonotary of King Rudolf of Habsburg and in 1274 at the Council of Lyons to get Pope Gregory X to confirm the election of Rudolf. There Pope Gregory awarded him the diocese of Trento on September 20, 1274 and recommended him to Count Meinhard II of Tyrol. His oath of allegiance to the Pope corresponded to that of the bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Rome and also referred only to the metropolis of Aquileja . In November / December he was at the Reichstag in Nuremberg, where he presumably received the regalia. On January 18, 1275 he took possession of his diocese. However, when he demanded the return of alienated goods and also refused an additional loan from Meinhard, a clash broke out. Heinrich was taken prisoner and later had to move to the south of his district. After an appeal to the king and the handling of his matter at the Reichstag in Augsburg in May 1275, he tried to win back the monastery and city by force. He succeeded in doing this at the beginning of December 1275. While an imperial arbitration decision in 1276 confirmed his claims, he encountered bitter resistance from Meinhard, who was determined to expand the county of Tyrol into a closed territory. The bishop, on the other hand, represented his affair at the royal court in Vienna, from there he went to Rome in 1277 on a royal commission to Pope John XXI. and then back to Vienna , where Rudolf confirmed the award of 1276 again. In 1278 he allied himself with Padua , which entrusted the captain Marsiglio Partenopeo with the submission of his opponents, while Meinhard asked the Scaliger of Verona for help. Until Meinhard arrived, they resisted with the help of the Castelbarco and other noblemen. Meinhard finally achieved a complete victory, took Heinrich prisoner and dictated a hard peace to him, which Adalgero de Villalta, Bishop of Belluno Feltre, laboriously negotiated. After that he was able to partially administer his diocese again. However, when he obtained the excommunication of Meinhard at the Synod of Aquileja in 1282 and was again defeated militarily, in 1284 he had to relinquish the administration of the monastery to him for four years in exchange for an annual pension of 800 marks. Meinhard managed to maintain his position beyond this point in time. Heinrich, who since then mostly had to stay outside his diocese, was condemned by Pope Nicholas IV .

As bishop he organized at least two diocesan synods (1276, 1279). During his reign, the Teutonic Order settled in Trento at S. Maria Coronala. The Augustinian Bonifacio supported him as auxiliary bishop and vicar general . Vicars general for Trento are known for the first time from his time. Heinrich's grave was probably located in the church of the Teutonic Order in Rome.

See also : List of Bishops of the Teutonic Order

literature

• Josef Egger: Bishop Heinrich II of Trient (1274–1289), especially his quarrel with Meinhard II, since 1254 Count of Tyrol and since 1286 Duke of Carinthia. Part 1. In: Thirty-fifth program of the kk Staatsgymnasium in Innsbruck. Innsbruck 1884, pp. 3-39.
• Josef Egger: Bishop Heinrich II of Trient (1274–1289), especially his quarrel with Meinhard II, since 1254 Count of Tyrol and since 1286 Duke of Carinthia. Part 2. In: Thirty-sixth program of the kk Staatsgymnasium in Innsbruck. Innsbruck 1885, pp. 3-42.
• Codex Wangianus. Document book of the Hochstift Trient, begun under Friedrich von Wangen, Bishop of Trient and Emperor Friedrich II. Reichsvicar f. Italy. Continued v. His successors. KK Hof- und Staatsdr., 1852, p. 402.

predecessor	Office	successor
Egno of Eppan	Bishop of Trento 1273–1289	Philipp Buonacolsi