Johann I (Trier)

Johann I (* around 1140 ; † July 15, 1212 in Trier ) was Archbishop of Trier from 1190 to 1212 and the first to also bear the title of Elector .

Johann came from the area around Speyer and is listed in 1173 as Speyer archdeacon and provost of the St. German-Stift zu Speyer. From 1186 to 1189 he was chancellor under Emperor Friedrich I. On the initiative of the regent Heinrich VI. he was elected Archbishop of Trier in September 1189, the losing candidates were Folmar von Karden and Rudolf von Wied. In the following year John I was confirmed by Pope Clement III .

The merits of Johann I were the reorganization and promotion of the archbishopric and archbishopric in both secular and ecclesiastical areas, the fortification of the city of Trier, the acquisition of numerous castles and the detachment of the archbishopric and the city of Trier from the rule of the Count Palatine (1198). He founded the " Liber annalium iurium ", the inventory of all goods and rights of the archbishopric and one of the great historical sources of the city of Trier and the Trier region. In the spring of 1196, the “ holy skirt ” in the west choir of Trier Cathedral was rediscovered by Archbishop Johann. This special event made him consecrate not only the new altar of the east choir of the Trier cathedral on May 1st, 1196 (it was also the consecration of the renewed Trier cathedral), but also the rediscovered tunic of Christ - the "holy skirt" - in the new and Transfer the consecrated altar. Thereby he initiated the veneration of the famous relic for the future. At his behest, the reconstruction of the Andernach Church of Our Lady and the Koblenz St. Castor Church took place.

Johann I died in Trier and was buried in the Himmerod monastery in the Eifel .

literature

• Bernhard final rule :  Johann I, Archbishop of Trier . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 420 f.
• Margret Corsten:  Johann I, Archbishop of Trier. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 539 ( digitized version ).
• Martin Persch :  Johann, Archbishop of Trier. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 181-183.

Web links

• Johann I. in the Saarland biographies

predecessor	Office	successor
Folmar von Karden	Elector Archbishop of Trier 1190–1212	Theodoric II of Wied