Jakob von Salza

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Jakob von Salza (* August 1481 in Schreibersdorf near Lauban , Upper Lusatia ; † August 25, 1539 in Neisse , Principality of Neisse ) was Prince-Bishop of Breslau .

Origin and career

Jakob von Salza came from the Thuringian noble family Salza , which had been wealthy in Upper Lusatia and Silesia since 1298 . Jakob was the youngest son of Nikolaus von Salza († 1485), heir to Schreibersdorf, Lichtenau and Linda near Lauban in Upper Lusatia. He studied in Leipzig and Bologna from 1498 and obtained a doctorate in law in Ferrara in 1508 . King Vladislav II. Of Bohemia appointed him in 1510 to the Governor of the Crown of Bohemia belonging Duchy Glogau .

In 1511 Jakob decided for the clergy. After his ordination he received canonicals at the Glogau collegiate monastery and the Breslauer Kreuzstift and in 1513 at the Breslauer Dom, whose prelate - scholaster he became in 1516. Since he was very respected by the Silesian princes and estates and at the Bohemian royal court for his administrative management, he was still able to keep the office of Glogau governor.

Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw

Coat of arms of the Wroclaw bishop Jakob von Salza

After the death of Wroclaw Bishop Johann V. Thurzo , the cathedral chapter unanimously elected Jakob von Salza as his successor on September 1, 1520. Although Pope Leo X would have preferred the competitor Johann Albrecht von Brandenburg, he confirmed Jacob's election on July 24, 1521, under pressure from the Breslau Cathedral Chapter and after an intervention by the Breslau Council and the Bohemian Oberstburggrave Zdeniek Lev von Rosental . The episcopal ordination took place on November 17, 1521 by the auxiliary bishop Heinrich von Füllstein from Breslau .

As the elected bishop, Jakob von Salza had ruled the Neiss diocese of Neiss since December 10, 1520 on behalf of the cathedral chapter and with the approval of the Silesian princes' assembly .

During the time of his reign, the Reformation was introduced in Breslau ( Breslau Disputation ), also through the work of Johann Hess , and in large parts of Silesia, where Lutheranism was able to spread. Despite the diocesan synod held in 1523 and a diocesan convention in 1524, he was unable to stop the denominational division of his diocese. During his reign, the Catholics in Breslau lost several churches (including St. Magdalena , St. Elisabeth and St. Bernhard). Only the areas under episcopal sovereignty and individual monasteries and abbeys remained Catholic.

Nevertheless, Jakob von Salza was appointed governor of Silesia by the Bohemian and Roman-German King Ferdinand I, succeeding Duke Karl I von Münsterberg, who died in 1536 .

He died three years later in his residence in Neisse. He was buried in a tumba in the local parish church of St. Jacob .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448–1648 , ISBN 3-428-08422-5 , p. 207.
predecessor Office successor
Johannes V. Thurzo Prince-Bishop of Breslau
1520–1539 		Balthasar von Promnitz
personal data
SURNAME Salza, Jakob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH August 1481
PLACE OF BIRTH Schreibersdorf near Lauban , Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1539
Place of death Neisse , Principality of Neisse