Johann VI. from Cochem

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Johann VI. von Cochem (* around 1524 in Cochem ; † January 13, 1597 in Maria Laach ) was a German Benedictine and the 26th abbot in the Maria Laach monastery .

Life

Johann VI. von Cochem was a son of the married couple Johann and Barbara Ricius. This is borne out by the minutes of his statements before the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer from 1580 and 1582.

In the Maria Laach monastery he worked as a cellar from 1552 and in this function renovated monastery properties on the Lower Moselle in 1554 . On July 27, 1568 he was elected by the majority of the Laach conventuals as the 26th abbot of the monastery in front of the abbots of Deutz and Brauweiler who were present . The consecration was carried out by Auxiliary Bishop Gregorius in the presence of a large number of clergy and the neighboring nobility. Since the Archbishop of Trier Jakob von Eltz had not been informed about the election in time, Johann von Cochem could only take the oath in front of him on December 17th of the same year. The investiture by the Archbishop of Cologne also delayed until 1572 and led to a dispute over the fee for issuing the investiture letter. In 1580 there was a conflict between Kurköln and Kurtrier over the collection of taxes in Kruft and as a result of an occupation of the monastery Abbot Johann fled first to Mayen and then to Koblenz .

In September 1580, Elector Jakob von Eltz gave him the honorable task of escorting the nuns from the In der Lehr monastery in Koblenz to Niederwerth Monastery . On Epiphany 1587, Cologne soldiers again plundered the monastery, whereupon the summoned Krufter subjects fled. Abbot Johann thereupon again obliged them through the waiter Jacob von Alken that they would have to do their duty in such cases, which they then promised on oath. After serving almost 29 years of service, Johann von Cochem died in Octava Epiphaniae (on January 13) in 1597.

Complementary

Records show that from 1500 onwards, several mothers of Laach abbots had received prebends from the Maria Laach monastery, including the mother of Abbot Johann, Barbara von Cochem (Cochemensis, or Cochemius) who died on April 9, 1570 later called. On September 29, 1580, the dean of the Palatinate monastery, Peter Homphaeus, bought a pension from Abbot Johann for the farm and property of Ebernach Abbey . In the period from 1588 to 1597 he regulated with the Archbishop of Trier Johann VII. Von Schönenberg the rights of the forests “Kirst and Thirn” on the heights of the Cochemer Krampens, to which the Propstei Ebernach, Cochem, Cond , Valwig , Ernst , Ellenz and Poltersdorf , Faid and Dohr as owners.

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  1. ↑ a b c NF 31 - The dioceses of the church province of Trier. The Archdiocese of Trier 7, The Benedictine Abbey of Laach, § 31., Abbots, p. 383 ff.
  2. ^ The Archdiocese of Trier 7. The Benedictine Abbey of Laach, Germania Sacra, New Volume 31, on behalf of the Max Planck Institute for History, edited by Bertram Resmini, Walter de Gruyter - Berlin-New York 1993, p. 383 f. in Google Book Search
  3. ↑ a b Alfons Friederichs: Abbot Johann v. Cochem died 400 years ago in Maria Laach . In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1997, p. 119 f.
  4. ↑ Werner Schuhmacher: The great forest "Kirst and Thirn" on the heights of the Cochemer Krampens (on the mountain near Ebernach), yearbook district Cochem-Zell 1998, pp. 96-101.
personal data
SURNAME Johann VI. from Cochem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ricius, Johann; Ricius, John VI .; Cochemius, Johann; Cochemensis, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine and abbot
DATE OF BIRTH around 1524
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochem
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1597
Place of death Maria Laach Abbey