Johann V. von Venningen

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Bishop Johann von Venningen (with his coat of arms in the middle) founds the University of Basel in 1460

Johann V von Venningen (*?; † December 20, 1478 , at Pruntrut Castle ) came from the left Neidenstein line of the Lords of Venningen . He was bishop of Basel from 1458 until his death .

family

Johann was the son of Johann von Venningen († 1432), court master of the Electoral Palatinate in Heidelberg , and Margret von Zeiskam . His brother Jost became German Master of the Teutonic Order , and his brother Siegfried († 1444) took over the family property.

According to the more recent Seelbuch of the Speyer cathedral monastery, the later Basel bishop and then Speyer cathedral dean Johann von Venningen endowed an annual memorial there for his mother Margaretha de Lustat, who died on July 15, 1450 . The Seelbuch explicitly names Johann von Venningen her son. It is possible that no distinction is made here between son and stepson, otherwise this would be an indication that the bishop comes from the second marriage of his father.

Life

Johann von Venningen studied in Heidelberg from 1426 and acquired the degree of Baccalaureus Artium . As the son of an influential family who had to be cared for, he was provided for a canon benefice in Speyer from 1428 and in Mainz and Worms from 1431 . From 1431 to 1437 he had a chaplain in Sulzfeld . Finally, in 1433, he became canon in Speyer and in 1439 was also given a canon beneficiary without being present in Basel . In 1444 he became dean of the cathedral in Speyer and in 1451 Bishop Reinhard von Helmstatt sent him to Rome to obtain the approval of an indulgence from the Pope . In 1456 Johann was again in Rome to confirm the election of Siegfried III. to catch up with the Bishop of Speyer. This was a relative of the right Hilsbach branch of the Lords of Venningen. In the same year Johann became cathedral dean of the cathedral chapter in Basel and on May 17, 1458 he was elected bishop by him. It was solemnly consecrated on April 8, 1459 in the cathedral in Basel .

"Johann von Pfenningen"

Johann von Venningen knew how to raise money for the diocese of Basel, which he headed for 20 years, and to wean the clergy from discipline and opulence. That's why he got the nickname Johann von Pfenningen . One of his outstanding achievements is the foundation of the University of Basel in 1460 and the reacquisition of the city and landscape of Pruntrut and the Ajoie that Imer von Ramstein had sold. In 1472 Johann von Venningen became Chancellor of the University of Freiburg , an office that he also held at Basel University. In his role as fürstbischöflicher ruler he gave in 1468 the city of Biel , the high courts and in 1474 he called the back for a long time Estates a.

Johann von Venningen died on December 20th, 1478 and was buried on December 22nd in the Basel Minster, where his tombstone is still preserved in the left aisle . In his will of May 19, 1469 he also commemorates his homeland by donating an eternal light in the parish church of his hometown Neidenstein , above his father's grave. In his home cathedral , the Speyer Cathedral , he endowed a perpetual mass on the St. John's altar, bequeathed “his crystal jugs ” to the cathedral pen to adorn the sacrament altar and his “special messbook, covered with the rich swartzen velvet” , the pen St. Guido in Speyer .

literature

  • Joseph Stöcklin: Johann VI. von Venningen, Bishop of Basel, May 17, 1458 to December 20, 1478 , Solothurn 1902 [not evaluated]
  • Volker Hirsch: The court of the Basel bishop Johannes von Venningen (1458–1478). Administration and communication, business management and consumption (= residence research; vol. 16), Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 978-3-7995-4516-7 . ( Review )
  • Meinhold Lurz: The barons of Venningen. Edited by Heimatverein Kraichgau eV (special publication no. 17), Sinsheim 1997, ISBN 3-921214-13-0 , pp. 764–770.
  • Volker Hirsch, Gerhard Fouquet: The budget book of the Basel bishop Johannes von Venningen (1458–1478) , Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7965-2442-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder : choir rules and younger sea book of the old Speyer cathedral chapter. Speyer 1923, page 654
  2. ↑ Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder: choir rules and younger sea book of the old Speyer cathedral chapter. Volume 1, page 350, Speyer 1923
  3. ↑ Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder: choir rules and younger sea book of the old Speyer cathedral chapter. Speyer 1923, page 654
predecessor Office successor
Arnold von Rotberg Bishop of Basel
1458–1478 		Kaspar of the Rhine
personal data
SURNAME Venningen, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Basel
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1478
Place of death at Pruntrut Castle