Johann Karl von und zu Franckenstein (Bishop)

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Tomb of the bishop, with a portrait, in the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew , Frankfurt

Johann Karl Reichsfreiherr von und zu Franckenstein (* 1610 at Frankenstein Castle ; † September 29, 1691 in Frankfurt am Main ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Worms .

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origin

Johann Karl came from the noble family of Franckenstein and was born in the family seat of Burg Frankenstein in 1610. He was the son of Johann Eustachius von und zu Franckenstein and his wife Anna Brendel von Homburg , niece of Archbishop of Mainz Daniel Brendel von Homburg (brother of her father). Her sister Martha Brendel von Homburg had married knight Caspar IV. Lerch von Dirmstein .

Canon and Bishop

Franckenstein studied in Cologne and Freiburg, became domicellar in Worms in 1654 , and later also custodian of the cathedral. On August 17, 1683, Johann Karl was elected Bishop of Worms, but not until July 16, 1688 by Pope Innocent XI. confirmed, whereupon he received the episcopal ordination on September 5th of the same year by the Archbishop of Mainz Anselm Franz von Ingelheim .

On May 31, 1689, Worms was burned down by French troops during the War of the Palatinate Succession . The entire city, including the cathedral and the bishop's court, was devastated. Bishop Franckenstein had to leave Worms and first went to his country castle in Dirmstein . He could not stay there either because of the events of the war, which is why he fled to Frankfurt am Main , where he owned the Franckensteiner Hof in Sachsenhausen , which he retired to (now defunct) .

Funerary inscription and personal coat of arms
Grave slab for knight Rudolf von Sachsenhausen, ancestor of the Bishop of Franckenstein, in Frankfurt Cathedral

Johann Karl von und zu Franckenstein died here on September 22nd, 1691. He was buried in the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew , where his splendid grave monument with a portrait in the north aisle has been preserved. The epitaph reads:

“ Here rests Johann Carl, confirmed Bishop of Worms, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, from the very old line of Freiherrn von und zu Franckenstein, famous for knight games for 900 years, who renewed two altars and vicarages in this church, which were made by the Germans Donated to Knights von Sachsenhausen, Wolfram in 1320 and Rudolf in 1325 and transferred to the Cleen and Franckenstein families. "

The knight Rudolf von Sachsenhausen († 1371) named in the inscription , a direct ancestor of the bishop, donated the Bartholomew Altar and St. Thomas Vicarie, which Johann Karl von Franckenstein renewed, in Frankfurt Cathedral in 1325, where his epitaph is also located or had the Bartholomew altar renovated in 1678. The altar fell victim to the destruction of the Second World War, the altarpiece donated by Franckenstein, Martyrdom of the Apostle Bartholomäus (1670), by Oswald Onghers , was saved and is still in the cathedral. With reference to the various dignities of Franckenstein, who was not a bishop at the time, the donor's inscription on the altar is no longer preserved:

“ To the best and greatest God. This altar, which was donated in 1325 by the knight Rudolf von Sachsenhausen, was restored in 1678 by Johann Carl von Franckenstein, custodian of the cathedral in Worms and scholaster of St. Burchhard in Würzburg , canon of the chapter of Bleidenstadt . "

Other prince-bishops from the family were his great-grand-uncle Rudolf von und zu Frankenstein (1523–1560), Bishop of Speyer and his great-nephew Johann Philipp Anton von und zu Frankenstein , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (1746–1753).

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Web links

Commons : Johann Karl von und zu Franckenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical page on the Brendel sisters from Homburg
predecessor Office successor
Franz Emmerich Kaspar Waldbott von Bassenheim Prince-Bishop of Worms
1683–1691 		Ludwig Anton of Pfalz-Neuburg
personal data
SURNAME Franckenstein, Johann Karl from and to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franckenstein, Johann Karl Reichsfreiherr from and to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of the Diocese of Worms
DATE OF BIRTH 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH at Frankenstein Castle
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1691
Place of death Frankfurt am Main