John III from Asel

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John III von Asel (* 1380 ; † June 21, 1472 in Rotenburg ) was Bishop of Verden from 1426 to 1470 .

John III came from an aristocratic family from Hildesheim and was initially Canonicus in the Hildesheim cathedral chapter . Then he worked in Rome . When Bishop Heinrich II of Verden resigned in 1426, Pope Martin V immediately provided him, his previous valet and lawyer, with the run-down diocese of Verden. In contrast to his predecessors, he led a modest lifestyle there. To the astonishment of his pen, he always had money at his disposal; it was even believed, due to his love of alchemy , that he could make gold. He succeeded in taming the nobility in the monastery, also by allying himself with the Lüneburg dukes. From these he released the Rotenburg, even though they were even subject to the imperial ban. A feud with Bremen and Archbishop Nikolaus von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst ended victorious. The council of Basel was called on for the burned down city of Verden and compensation was obtained.

Due to his diplomatic skills, he achieved such a reputation that he was appointed with Bishop Paridam von Ratzeburg as an arbitrator to negotiate with the warring cities of Lüneburg, Hamburg, Lübeck and Wismar with King Erik VII . As a result, the Peace of Vordingborg was concluded. When Baldwin II von Wenden became Archbishop of Bremen after Archbishop Nikolaus death , Johannes III. 1450 the proposal to detach the Diocese of Verden from the Diocese of Mainz and to place it under the Archdiocese of Bremen, a plan that goes back to Adalbert von Bremen . However, this was rejected by Baldwin.

During the Lüneburg Prelate War for the Lüneburg Salt Rights, Johannes III. banned. This could only be resolved after the conflict had been settled due to the intervention of the Danish King Christian I , the Bishop of Schwerin Werner Wolmers and the Lübeck Bishop Arnold Westphal . Wilhelm the Elder used the ban in 1457 as a pretext for a robbery feud that devastated Verden and the land on the Deister up to the Neustadt of Hanover. When John III. Gerhard called the arguing from Oldenburg for his protection, Johannes III. also in Gerhard's inheritance dispute with his brother Moritz III. drawn. Johannes won the friendship of King Christian I of Denmark, who sided with his brother Gerhard, also because he accepted Gerhard's son Adolf, who was born in 1458, as coadjutor in 1462 , although he did not enjoy this office. The feud was settled through an arbitration award in 1467.

From 1468 onwards, John III. weak and suffered from memory loss. The monastery was ruled tacitly for two years by the cathedral dean Berthold von Landsberg . In 1470 it was assumed that John III. have resigned. He lived on the Rotenburg until his death in 1472.

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predecessor Office successor
Henry II of Verden Bishop of Verden
1426–1470 		Berthold II of Landsberg
personal data
SURNAME Asel, Johannes III. from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atzel, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Verden
DATE OF BIRTH before 1380
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1472
Place of death Rotenburg