Heinrich von Würben

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Heinrich von Würben (Polish: Henryk z Wierzbna ; Czech: Jindřich z Vrbna ; † September 23, 1319 ) was Prince-Bishop of Breslau .

Origin and career

Heinrich came from the Silesian - Moravian knight family von Würben . Early on he was in contact with Duke Heinrich IV. In 1290 he became canon in Breslau.

Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw

After the death of Wroclaw Bishop Johann III. Romka was elected Heinrich von Würben's successor by the cathedral chapter in 1301 with the support of the Bohemian and Polish King Wenceslaus II . The episcopal ordination took place on March 19, 1302 by the Gnesen Archbishop Jakob Swinka .

On behalf of the Archbishop of Mainz , Gerhard von Eppstein, Heinrich von Würben crowned King Wenzel's wife Elisabeth Richza as Queen of Bohemia in Prague in 1303 .

During his tenure, Heinrich von Würben promoted the connection between Silesia and Bohemia and supported the Bohemian Přemyslids and, after their extinction (1306), the Luxembourgers . At the same time he loosened relations with the Archbishop of Gniezno, whom he forbade interfering in matters of the Breslau sand pen. As a result of the conflict, Heinrich was banned and an interdict was imposed on the city of Breslau . Also with the papal legate Nicolaus Boccasini, later Pope Benedict XI. , he had an argument. From 1309 to 1313 Heinrich stayed at the papal court in Avignon and probably took part in the council of Vienne .

In 1305 and 1316 he organized diocesan synods. He acted strictly against heretics , especially against the Beguines and Begarden in Schweidnitz and Neisse , and heeded the discipline of the clergy . The Gothic Wroclaw Cathedral , where he was buried after his death, was completed during his tenure.

literature

• Colmar Grünhagen :  Heinrich I. (von Würben) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 507-509.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wrbna-Freudenthal, Heinrich the Younger . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 58th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1889, p. 178 ( digitized version ).
• Kurt Engelbert:  Heinrich I. v. Advertise. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 354 ( digitized version ).
• Jan Copyc , in: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198-1448 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , p. 110

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann III. Romka	Bishop of Breslau 1302–1319	Nanker