Johann Sax von Saxenau

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Johann Sax von Saxenau (also: Johannes Sachs zu Sachsenau ; † April 23, 1306 ) was as Johann I provost of the Canons of Berchtesgaden and as Johann II. Bishop of Brixen .

Johann Sax von Saxenau came from a family of knights from Salzburg and was provost of the monastery in Berchtesgaden from 1283 to 1303 . As such, he and the monastery were granted the right of " blood spell ", and he and the subsequent Berchtesgaden provosts were thus placed on an equal footing with the imperial princes . He had the early Gothic choir added to the previously Romanesque Berchtesgaden collegiate church, which towered over the previous church and almost doubled its length.

At the instigation of the sons of the Tyrolean Count Meinhard II , Otto , Ludwig and Heinrich , the Brixen Cathedral Chapter elected Konrad Waldner to succeed the late Brixen Bishop Landulf of Milan . The Archbishop of Salzburg, Konrad IV von Fohnsdorf , did not confirm this choice, but appointed Johann Sax von Saxenau in 1302. Pope Boniface VIII in turn appointed the opposing bishop Arnald, who, however, never really appeared in Brixen.

On June 9, 1303, Albrecht I awarded the regalia to Bishop Johann . He exempted the citizens of Brunico from taxes for ten years to help them build the city wall.

The bishop died on April 23, 1306 and was buried in the church of the Neustift monastery in Brixen.

literature

  • Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld : History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works , Volume 1. Salzburg 1815; P. 123
  2. Hellmut Schöner (ed.), A. Helm : Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger publishing house and Karl M. Lipp publishing house, Munich 1973. - see p. 261 f.
  3. Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 110