Johann II of Baden

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Johann von Baden (* 1434 at Hohenbaden Castle ; † February 9, 1503 in Ehrenbreitstein ) was Prince and (titular) margrave of Baden , and as Johann II. From 1456 until his death in 1503, Archbishop and Elector of Trier .

Archbishop's coat of arms in the pilgrimage church of Mater Dolorosa in Driesch

Johann von Baden was the third son of Margrave Jacob I of Baden and Catherine of Lorraine . Johann received a strictly religious upbringing, which distinguished him for an ecclesiastical office at an early age. Apart from the two eldest sons Karl and Bernhard and the sister Margarete , all of his siblings took up a religious office at the insistence of their father, including Johann, who had connections to Trier through his mother in Lorraine. With his younger brothers George and Markus he studied from 1452 to 1456 in Erfurt , Pavia and Cologne theology . On June 21, 1456, Johann von Baden was elected Archbishop of Trier "Johann II. Von Baden" at the age of 22 after unsuccessful primary elections. Pope Kalixt III. appointed him to be the administrator of the diocese on October 25, 1456, as Johann had not yet reached the canonical age of 35 to receive the episcopal ordination, which he received in 1465 at Saarburg Castle by the Trier suffragan bishop Hubertus Agrippinas and the bishops of Metz and Worms received.

In 1459 Diether von Isenburg was elected as the new Archbishop of Mainz with a narrow majority before Adolf II of Nassau , but was never confirmed by Pope Pius II . This resulted in the Mainz collegiate feud , which expanded into the Badisch-Palatinate War. During the dispute, Johann II, together with his brothers, was on the side of Adolf II of Nassau.

Johann II. Von Baden promoted the connection of the Benedictine monasteries of the reform movement of the Order ( Bursfelde Congregation ) and sent in 1469 the Prior John Fart of Deidesheim from the Trier Monastery of St. Mary the Martyrs (~ 650-1805) as the reform abbot (Abt 21 , 1470–1491) after Laach . In doing so, he prevailed over his Cologne counterpart Ruprecht von der Pfalz , who provided someone else for this office, also supporting the reform. During his term of office, the long-planned opening of the University of Trier with the subjects of theology , philosophy , medicine and law on March 16, 1473 falls .

In 1477, Archbishop Johann II von Baden brokered the marriage between Maximilian von Habsburg and Maria von Burgund .

In 1488, Johann II of Baden led a feud against Cuno III. von Winneburg and Beilstein and in 1497 he had 12,000 men besieged the city of Boppard , which tried to regain its imperial freedom .

From 1499/1500 his great-nephew, who later became Archbishop Jakob von Baden , acted as coadjutor with succession rights (Latin: "coadiutor cum iure successionis") and from 1501 had been in charge of all government affairs. After almost 47 years in office (46 years, seven months and 18 days, the longest of the Trier bishops), Johann II. Von Baden died in Ehrenbreitstein in 1503 and was buried in the Trier Cathedral in a splendid grave built during his lifetime.

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predecessor Office successor
Jakob I of Sierck Archbishop Elector of Trier
1456–1503 		Jacob II of Baden
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SURNAME Johann II of Baden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann of Baden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margrave of Baden; Archbishop of Trier (1456–1503)
DATE OF BIRTH 1434
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenbaden Castle
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1503
Place of death Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein