Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein

Family coat of arms from the epitaph of the nephew Wilhelm Brenner von Löwenstein , Deidesheim

Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein (* before 1483; † February 14, 1537 ) was a German vicar general and cathedral cantor in the prince-bishopric of Speyer , as well as canons in Worms and Eichstätt .

Origin and family

He came from the Palatinate ministerial family of the Brenner von Löwenstein (sometimes also Brenner von Lewenstein or just Löwenstein or Lewenstein), which had its ancestral seat at Löwenstein Castle near Niedermoschel . Sometimes they also had the addition of Randeck to their name, as they appear as gan heirs on Randeck Castle, which can be leaned from the Reich . There was a relationship with the noble family of the Lords of Randeck , although it is still unclear whether they were of the same tribe or just related by marriage , especially since their coats of arms are completely different.

Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein was born as the son of Johann Brenner von Löwenstein († 1521), Burgrave of the Electoral Palatinate in Alzey and his wife Apollonia, née. von Heppenheim called from the hall . The parents are buried in the Catholic Church in Imsweiler , where their double epitaph has been preserved. His mother was a sister of Anton von Heppenheim called vom Saal, making Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein the cousin of his children, the Speyer cathedral dean Johannes von Heppenheim called vom Saal († 1555) and his sister, the Rosenthal abbess Barbara von Heppenheim called vom Saal († 1567) is.

Live and act

Brenner von Löwenstein enrolled at the University of Heidelberg in the summer of 1483 and on March 27, 1499 paid the annates for a preserved canon mortgage in Speyer. From November 6, 1501 he studied at the University of Mainz , but soon moved to the University of Trier , where he stayed until the summer of 1502. From July 5 of that year to July 14, 1503, he served his year of residence as a canon in Speyer, and then, until 1504, to visit the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1504 to December 1508 and again from October 1509 to October 1511 the cleric was enrolled in studies at the University of Bologna . Here he appears as a syndic in 1507 and as procurator of the university in 1511 . At the consecration of Bishop Philipp von Rosenberg on February 9, 1505 in Speyer Cathedral , he served in the liturgical service and brought offerings to the altar.

In 1522 Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein also became canon in Worms . The Speyer bishop Georg von der Pfalz appointed him on January 7, 1525, as successor to Georg von Schwalbach , as his vicar general , which he held until 1532 under Bishop Philipp von Flersheim . On September 27, 1526 he was named in a document as senior of the Speyer cathedral chapter, on April 15, 1529 he was elected provost of St. German in Speyer, which at that time was already located near St. Moritz . In the wake of his election as bishop, Philipp von Flersheim resigned to him in the winter of 1529 his own previous canon position in Eichstätt , which suggests a close relationship between the two. From 1530 to 1534 Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein also acted as the prince-bishop's house chaplain. On July 30, 1534 he was also the cathedral choirmaster of Speyer , which he held until his death.

In 1505, 1506, 1517 and 1525 the canon of the Palatinate went on pilgrimages to Rome ; on the latter he acted as procurator for Philip von Flersheim. In 1512 he made a pilgrimage to Maria Einsiedeln , in 1512 and 1514 he stayed for cures in Wiesbaden and Bad Wildbad . From 1509 to 1523 Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein held various administrative offices within the foundation (supervisor of the barn, manager of the winery, etc.), then he was increasingly employed as a deputy to the imperial court (e.g. to Hungary in 1528) or at the Reichstag (including at the important Reichstag in Augsburg , 1530). Gerhard Fouquet describes him as the “most busy diplomat of the cathedral chapter” in his time .

The cathedral capitular was interested in botanicals, had a garden in Speyer and was in friendly contact with the herbalist Hieronymus Bock († 1554). He was also known to the humanist Johannes Bockenrod , to whom he made historical documents available for his diocese chronicles.

Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein died in 1537 and was buried in the (no longer existing) cloister of the Speyer Cathedral.

literature

• Gerhard Fouquet: The Speyer Cathedral Chapter in the late Middle Ages (approx. 1350-1540) , Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz, 1987, pp. 356 to 360
• Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Choir Rule and Younger Sea Book of the old Speyer Cathedral Chapter , Speyer, Historischer Verein der Pfalz , 1923, page 101 (with biographical information on the person)
• Klaus Finkel: Music education and music care at the learned schools in Speyer: from the Middle Ages to the end of the free imperial city , Volume 5 of: Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft , 1973, p. 69, ISBN 3795201292 ; (Detail scan)
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New General German Adels Lexicon, Volume 2, P. 57, Leipzig, 1860; (Digital scan)

Web links

• Genealogical website about the person

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Newspaper article on the father, from: Allgemeine Zeitung Alzey, April 9, 2014
2. ^ Enlargeable family tree of the Heppenheim called vom Saal
3. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, Mainz 1854, p. 215; (Digital scan)
4. ^ Gerhard Fouquet: The Speyer Cathedral Chapter in the late Middle Ages (approx. 1350–1540) , Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz, 1987, p. 359
5. ↑ Brigitte Hoppe: The herb book of Hieronymus Bock , 1969, p. 82 u. 414; (Detail scan)
6. ↑ Markus Müller: The late medieval diocese historiography: Tradition and development , Böhlau Verlag, 1998, p. 38, ISBN 3412116971 ; (Detail scan)