Johann von Waldburg-Wolfegg

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Coat of arms of Bishop Johann von Waldburg on a house in Steigstrasse in Meersburg

Johann von Waldburg-Wolfegg , also Johann von Waldburg zu Wolfegg or Johann (es) Constanz Graf Truchseß von Waldburg-Wolfegg (born March 26, 1598 in Waldsee ; † December 13 or 15, 1644 ) was abbot of the Reichenau monastery and from 1628 until 1644 Prince-Bishop of Constance .

family

Johann von Waldburg came from the marriage of Heinrich Erbtruchseß von Waldburg Graf zu Wolfegg (1568–1637) and Maria Jakoba Countess von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1577–1650). He was the third of seven children. On September 27, 1628, Emperor Ferdinand II granted the family the dignity of an imperial count.

Life

Canon in Cologne since 1614 , Johann von Waldburg obtained a canonical to St. Gereon in Cologne in 1616 , which he renounced in 1629.

Appointed Bishop of Constance on December 23, 1627, he was ordained a priest on June 28, 1628 . Since 1628 he was abbot of the monastery on the island of Reichenau .

Johann Jakob Mirgel , auxiliary bishop in Constance and titular bishop of Sebaste in Cilicia , donated him episcopal ordination on February 4, 1629 .

Right at the beginning of his episcopate he was able to conclude a concordat ( privelegium fori ) with Archduke Leopold of Austria (1586–1632), the regent of Tyrol and Upper Austria , in 1629 as a result of the implementation of the Trentino reform decrees . Model was the recess between Austria and Basel in the year 1620. Even in 1644 elected him the Cologne cathedral chapter for Chorbishop .

He was buried in the Konstanz Minster .

See also

Web links

Commons : Johann von Waldburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Haus Hohenzollern" Hohenzollern Home
  2. ^ Klaus Unterburger: The Bavarian Concordat of 1583. The recess between Austria and Constance 1629 . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 516
  3. Coat of arms of the Lords of Rappoltstein in St. Gereon in Cologne in Friedrich J. Ortwein: Rappoltstein Chronicle 1905-2005
predecessor Office successor
Sixt Werner Vogt from Altensumerau and Prasberg Bishop of Constance
1628–1644
Franz Johann Vogt of Altensumerau and Prasberg