Johann III. (Henneberg-Schleusingen)

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Johann III. from Henneberg-Schleusingen
Coat of arms Johann III. von Henneberg-Schleusingen, prince abbot of Fulda (1529–1541)

Johann III. von Henneberg-Schleusingen (born April 30, 1503 ; † May 20, 1541 in Fulda ) was prince abbot of the Fulda monastery from 1529 to 1541 .

family

Johann came from the family of the Counts of Henneberg . His father was Wilhelm VI. von Henneberg-Schleusingen, Count and Lord of Mainberg (born January 29, 1478 in Schleusingen ; † January 24, 1559, in Veßra Monastery ). His mother was Anastasia von Brandenburg (born March 17, 1478 in Ansbach; † July 4, 1534 in Ilmenau ), the youngest daughter of Elector Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg (1414–1486) and his wife Anna of Saxony (1437–1512).

Johann had six brothers and six sisters. Two of the brothers died early. His younger brother Christoph (* June 6, 1510; † (13/14.) March 1548 in Römhild) was Canon of Bamberg (1519), Würzburg (1520–1538 and 1541–1543), Worms (1520–1538) and Strasbourg (1523) as well as cathedral dean (1540–1545) and provost of St. Jakob zu Bamberg (1541–1548). Poppo (1513–1574) also became a canon, but after the Reformation in Henneberg-Schleusingen (1543/44) he renounced his spiritual benefices and married. The eldest brother Wolfgang (1507–1537), who was to be his successor, fell as a soldier in the service of the emperor, and in his place was Georg Ernst (1511–1583), who ruled the county from 1559 to 1583.

Life

Johann studied at the University of Mainz before 1518 and at the University of Paris from 1519 to 1521 . He was canon of Strasbourg from 1515 to 1538 , canon of Mainz from 1517 to 1541 , canon of Cologne in 1518 and canon of Bamberg from 1519 to 1523 . As early as 1521, the Fulda prince abbot Hartmann II , who had been more concerned with worldly matters than with his abbey, in recognition of his own weaknesses, chose the only 18-year-old Johann to be his coadjutor and moved to Mainz, where he stayed quietly until his death lived withdrawn. After Hartmann's death in 1529, Johann succeeded him as Prince Abbot of Fulda.

First as coadjutor and then as prince abbot, Johann tried to get the problems that arose during Hartmann's tenure under control and, in particular, to push back the Reformation . As a coadjutor he was confronted in 1524/25 with the uprising of the peasants and their devastation of many churches and the Fulda monasteries Petersberg and Frauenberg , had to call (the Protestant) Landgrave Philip of Hesse against the farmers and subsequently found the Fulda area largely occupied by the victorious Hessian troops, which he had to get rid of.

In 1535, for the greater glory of God, he donated a magnificent organ, valuable altarpieces and paraments .

Johann von Henneberg-Schleusingen died at the age of thirty-eight and was buried in the abbey church of the Fulda monastery.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henneberg, Counts of, in the Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
  2. ↑ Chronicle of Fulda and its surroundings from 744 up to and including 1838 , Vacha, 1839, p. 69.
predecessor Office successor
Hartmann II of Kirchberg Prince Abbot of Fulda
1529 - 1541 		Philipp Schenk zu Schweinsberg
personal data
SURNAME Johann III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henneberg-Schleusingen, Johann III. from (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince Abbot of Fulda
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1503
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1541
Place of death Fulda