John IV (Olomouc)

John IV. (Also Johann IV. , Jan IV. , † 1172 ) was Bishop of Olomouc . He was also called "the bald one".

biography

After the death of the Olomouc bishop John III. to Dragon , the Kaplan the Duke Vladislavs II. , have been chosen for its successor. Since he was unable to cope with the burdens of a bishopric, he renounced.

After that, the Moravian Duke Otto III. on behalf of the Olomouc Church proposed the Leitomischler Premonstratensian Abbot John. His election took place in Prague. Since the Prague Bishop Daniel I was planning a trip to the court of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in Würzburg, he took Johannes, who had just been elected, with him. At the request of the Duke of Bohemia, the Emperor gave John the regalia there . Then the bishops Daniel and Johannes made a trip to Erfurt, where the Mainz bishop and Metropolitan Arnold consecrated Johannes as a bishop . After returning to Olomouc, John was solemnly received and introduced into his episcopate.

Little is known about Johann's episcopal work. Like his predecessors, he supported the expansion of the Premonstrate Order . The annals of the Bavarian monastery Windberg report that Johannes consecrated three altars in the monastery church there on November 28, 1167, where the Olomouc bishop Heinrich Zdik is said to have consecrated the main altar as early as 1142 . As members of the Premonstratensian Order, both wanted to pay a special honor to the monastery.

literature

• Josef Matzke : Johannes IV. 1157-72 ("9th Bishop") . In: Moravian-Silesian Homeland, year 1967, issue 1, pp. 271–272

Individual evidence

1. ^ H. Grote: Bishops of Olmütz , in: Stammtafeln , Leipzig 1877

predecessor	Office	successor
John III	Bishop of Olomouc 1157–1172	Dietleb