Johann von Neuberg

Half-length portrait of Bishop Johann I von Neuberg, Seckau basilica , bishop's chapel (depiction around 1595)

Johann von Neuberg (* around 1330; † June 11, 1399 ) was Johann I as Bishop of Seckau .

Johann von Neuberg came from a Styrian ministerial family that named itself after the East Styrian castle Neuberg bei Hartberg . The Archbishop of Salzburg, Pilgrim II von Puchheim, was his maternal uncle. From 1354 to 1360 he was pastor of Hartberg, then deacon of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, from 1358 petitioners at the papal court in Avignon in the wake of Count Friedrich of Cilli , who there as an envoy of the Hungarian king I. Ludwig and the Austrian Duke Albrecht II. Dwelt . Johann von Neuberg then studied canon law in Padua and was ordained a priest in 1359. Supported by his uncle, the Archbishop of Salzburg, he was canon of Passau from 1376 to 1380 and pastor of Laufen from 1371 to 1385.

After the death of Ulrich von Weißeneck , Bishop of Seckau , Johann von Neuberg was appointed his successor. Pope Gregory XI. however, appointed Augustin Münzmeister von Breisach , although the archbishop was entitled to the right of appointment. A subsequent legal dispute was decided against Johann von Neuberg. Archbishop Pilgrim now tried to get his nephew to the bishopric of Gurk, but there he was defeated by Duke Albrecht's candidate, Johann von Mayrhofen , who in turn was enforced against the will of the archbishop.

After the death of Bishop Münzmeister von Breisach, Johann was again appointed Bishop of Seckau and consecrated on April 14, 1380. In the great schism, Bishop Johann sided with the Archbishop of Salzburg on Avignon's side.

Bishop Johann settled his predecessor's debts and had Seggau Castle near Leibnitz expanded, where he mostly stayed. In the last few years of his reign he was mostly ailing, so he was given a coadjutor, probably in the person of his successor Friedrich von Perneck , at his side. Johann resigned as bishop, but died a short time later on June 11, 1399 and was buried in Seckau Cathedral.

literature

• Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448 . Berlin

predecessor	Office	successor
Ulrich III. from Weißeneck	Bishop pretender of Seckau 1372	Augustin Mintmaster of Breisach

predecessor	Office	successor
Augustin Mintmaster of Breisach	Bishop of Seckau 1380-1399	Friedrich II of Perneck