Hermann I. von Buxthoeven

Ruins of the cathedral of Dorpat founded by Hermann I.

Hermann I. von Buxthoeven (also Buxhöwden, Buxhoeveden , * 1163 in Bexhövede , † 1248 ) was the 1st bishop of Dorpat from 1224 to 1247  .

Life

Initially, Hermann von Buxthoeven was abbot of the Paulskloster near Bremen , before he was appointed Bishop of Leal ( Lihula ) on April 10, 1220 . On July 21, 1224, his brother Albrecht von Buxthoeven , the Bishop of Riga , succeeded in asserting his influence against King Waldemar of Denmark and the Order of the Brothers of the Sword in Estonia and appointing Hermann there as Bishop of Dorpat ( Tartu ). Hermann founded the cathedral in Tartu and led in 1242 in the Battle on the Ice , a force of German and Danish crusaders, local auxiliaries and knights of the Teutonic Order against Alexander Nevsky , which he lost.

In addition to the brothers Albert and Hermann, other brothers from the Buxhoeveden family came as crusaders from Bremen to Livonia: Rotmar , Provost in Dorpat, as well as the half-brothers Engelbert , Provost of Riga, and the lay people Johannes "de Bikkeshovede" and Theodoricus de Ropa (the latter became the progenitor of the von der Ropp family ).

literature

• Nicolai von Budberg: Knight of the Imperial Russian Order of St. George and the Georg Saber. Baltic Germans, Russia-Germans and Finland-Sweden. Officers of the Imperial Russian Guards in World War I 1914–1917. Starke, Limburg Lahn 1969. ISBN 3798005281 .
• Nikolai Essen: Genealogical handbook of the Oeselschen knighthood. Osaühing Ilutrükk, Tartu 1935, Harro v. Hirschheydt, Hannover-Döhren 1971 (reprint).

Web links

• Hermann on the website of the Buxhöwde family
• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hermann I. von Buxthoeven. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm von Bippen , Diedrich Ehmck : Bremisches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1, C. Ed. Müller, Bremen 1876, p. 154.

predecessor	Office	successor
Theodoric	Bishop of Dorpat 1220–1247	Bernhard I.