Johannes von Töckheim

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Johannes von Töckheim († 1376 in Strasbourg ) was called Johann III. Bishop of Gurk .

Nothing is known about the origin of Johannes von Töckheim; he was likely to have been Hungarian or German. He was first the court chaplain of the Hungarian King Louis the Great (1342-1382), at the same time provost of St. Adalbert in Raab. When Ludwig wrested Dalmatia , which had been lost under his father Karl , from the Venetians , the former Diocese of Knin also returned to Hungary. In 1358 Töckheim became Bishop of Knin. At the same time, however, Töckheim was also seen as a confidante and advisor to the Austrian duke. Because of his laudable government of Knins he was appointed Bishop of Gurk on March 6, 1364 by Pope Urban V. At that time Töckheim was in Avignon, where he was staying on behalf of Duke Rudolf IV the Founder and King Ludwig II of Hungary in order to secure the promotion of his predecessor Johannes II from Platzheim-Lenzburg to the bishopric of Passau.

In a document from 1364, Töckheim is accused of holding diatribes against Emperor Charles IV , so he had to travel to the papal court with a letter of recommendation from Duke Rudolf to justify himself. The relationship between Emperor Karl and his son-in-law Rudolf was not the best and Töckheim was actually a partisan of Duke Rudolf.

On March 12, 1365, Bishop Töckheim signed the foundation letter of the University of Vienna . Töckheim was also present at the elevation of the parish church St. Stephan zu Vienna to the collegiate church four days later. On July 25, 1373, he was a witness at the partition contract between the two dukes Albrecht III. and Leopold III. From an ecclesiastical perspective, he proved to be a great benefactor of the collegiate church in Strasbourg .

In the last period of his reign, von Töckheim was probably plagued by illness, as he was staying with doctors in Vienna, he died in his residence in Strasbourg in 1376 and was buried there in the Romanesque predecessor building of the Kollegiatkirche. His grave is no longer preserved.

literature

  • Jakob Obersteiner: The bishops of Gurk. 1072–1822 (= From Research and Art. 5, ISSN  0067-0642 ). Publishers of the history association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1969, pp. 174-180.
  • Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 .