Jakob I of Vansdorf

Jakob von Vansdorf , as Jakob I, was provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery from 1362 to 1368 .

Little is currently known about Vansdorf's life and work.

As Provost Jakob I of the Berchtesgaden monastery, Vansdorf was still subject to the metropolitan authority of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . It was not until 1455 that the monastery was able to get rid of it and was then subordinate to the Pope in spiritual matters. But the secular independence of the Stiftspropstei began to manifest itself as early as 1294 through the acquisition of blood jurisdiction for serious offenses.

Although the salt production within the abbey propstei had increased, he and his canons apparently lived in such great luxury that even these rich yields were not enough. The debt burden began to reach a "fantastic level" and the country became increasingly impoverished. Ulrich I. Wulp first tried to counter this in 1377 with a land letter, among other things , in which he offered the serfs the property and fiefs of the monastery for inheritance purchase, but on the condition that the subjects continued to fulfill their fiefdom obligations. Even if this was used extensively, this alone was not enough to restore the finances.

literature

• Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Berchtesgadener Anzeiger Verlag , Berchtesgaden 1986, ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 50-61.
• A. Helm : Berchtesgaden through the ages. Cologne 1929. (Reprint: Verein für Heimatkunde d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973, pp. 100, 108–109, 261–262)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants. 1986, pp. 50-51.
2. ↑ According to A. Helm, the episcopal insignia received after him as early as 1254 are already a sign of direct papal suzerainty to which the monastery would have been subject since then. See history of the country. In: A. Helm: Berchtesgaden through the ages. 1973, p. 109.
3. ↑ ^{a b} history of the country. In: A. Helm: Berchtesgaden through the ages. 1973, pp. 108-109.
4. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants. 1986, pp. 60-61.