Johann Martin von Eyb

Johann Martin von Eyb. Engraving around 1733

Coat of arms of the Prince-Bishop of Eyb on the west wing of his residence

Johann Martin von Eyb. Epitaph in Eichstätter Dom, Eybkapelle, probably by Christian Handschuher

Johann Martin von Eyb ( Johannes Martinus , born August 30, 1630 in Mörnsheim , † December 6, 1704 in Herrieden ) was the diocesan and prince-bishop of Eichstätt .

Life

Origin and education

He came from the family of the Lords of Eyb , who had held the gift office of the Prince Diocese of Eichstätt in inheritance law since 1533. He was born as the son of the Mörnsheim bishop's caretaker Heinrich Konrad von Eyb and his wife Margarethe Susanna von Thürheim . He received his education at the Jesuit high school in Eichstätt, the Collegium Willibaldinum , and at the University of Dillingen .

canon

On June 25, 1646 he was sworn up in Eichstätt and on May 7, 1649 in Augsburg . After long journeys in Germany and Italy, he became cathedral chapter in Eichstätt on March 9, 1655 . Seven years later he was ordained a priest. As cathedral chapter he held various offices; so he was a scholastic and 1678-86 cathedral dean. He was also given the office of senior hospital master at the Heilig-Geist-Hospital Eichstätt . He resigned from the office of Eichstätter cathedral dean in 1686 to assume the highest office of the Augsburg chapter, that of cathedral provost. He remained in this function until his episcopal ordination.

Prince-Bishop

Despite advanced age, he was 66 years ago on April 16, 1697 from Eichstätter cathedral chapter unanimously elected bishop of Eichstatt, and on June 8, 1698 consecrated . He had only a few relatively quiet years of government in which he gave his clergy guidelines for preaching, catechesis and school with the "Puncta synodalia", completed the west wing of his residence by the builder Jakob Engel from Graubünden , and the holy church, which had been devastated since the Swedish fire of 1634. Eichstätt ghost hospital was rebuilt. After its inauguration in 1703, during the War of the Spanish Succession , he had to flee from the French to Herrieden in the Upper Abbey and on to the Forchheim fortress . On his return to Eichstätt he died in Herrieden and was buried on December 22nd, 1704 in the north side chapel of Eichstätt Cathedral, where his grave monument is also located. His entrails remained in Herrieden in the collegiate church, his heart was buried in front of the high altar of the Eichstätter hospital church.

In his will, written in 1699, he had appointed Eichstätter Spital as heir.

The Freising auxiliary bishop Franz Ignaz Albert von Werdenstein (1697–1766) and the Fulda prince-bishop Heinrich von Bibra (1711–1788) were his great-nephews.

literature

• Alois Wittig: Prince-Bishop Johann Martin von Eyb. In: Heilig-Geist-Spital Eichstätt . City of Eichstätt. Eichstätt 1978. pp. 31-33.
• Klaus Kreitmeir: The bishops of Eichstätt . Publishing house church newspaper. Eichstätt 1992. pp. 81f.
• Peter Zürcher: The bishopric elections in the prince-bishopric of Eichstätt from 1636 to 1790. Election events in the mirror domkapitelscher, dynastic and imperial state and imperial church politics (dissertation Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 2004/2005). Munich: Verlag CH Beck, 2008 (series of publications on Bavarian national history; 155). ISBN 978-3-406-10770-2 .

Web links

• Entry on Johann Martin von Eyb on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Euchar Schenk von Castell	Bishop of Eichstätt 1697–1704	Johann Anton I. Knebel von Katzenelnbogen