Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald von Spaur

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Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald von Spaur (contemporary engraving)
Coat of arms as a Bavarian Knight of St. George, with a brief history in the order

Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald von Spaur (also Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald Reichsgraf von Spaur and Valör ) (born October 21, 1705 in Innsbruck ; † March 26, 1793 in Salzburg ) was a Catholic prelate and court bishop at the Palatinate-Bavarian electoral court in Munich .

Live and act

He came from the old Tyrolean nobility and was the son of Guidobald Franz von Spaur and his wife Helena Margaritha Countess von Wolkenstein-Trostburg . His sister Marie Adelheid Fortunata von Spaur (1693–1781) had an illegitimate son with Prince Ferdinand Maria Innozenz of Bavaria . It was Count Joseph Ferdinand Maria von Salern (1718–1805) who founded his own Wittelsbach branch.

Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald von Spaur became a Catholic priest. From 1740 to 1767 he officiated as pastor of the parish in Höslwang , which belongs to the Archdiocese of Salzburg , where he had the parish church of St. Nicholas decorated in a very high quality baroque style. From 1772 Spaur acted as provost of the Munich Liebfrauenstift , from 1780–87 also provost of the Altötting collegiate monastery .

In 1749 the Count was accepted into the Bavarian Knightly Order of St. George , in 1761 he became commander and clerical dean of the order, in 1774 holder of the Grand Cross and an inful religious provost, after which he was allowed to appear in honor of the bishop's miter on solemn occasions . Connected with this was the provost office of the collegiate monastery St. Wolfgang am Burgholz . On April 24, 1780 he was promoted to titular bishop of Abila in Palestine . Ludwig Joseph von Welden , Prince-Bishop of Freising , donated him his episcopal ordination on June 6th of that year in the Theatine Church in Munich .

From 1783 Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald von Spaur acted as Real Privy Councilor and President of the Electoral Spiritual Council in Munich . At the request of the Palatinate-Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor , Pope Pius VI. , on December 15, 1789, for this an exemtes court diocese, which was directly subordinate to the Holy See. It only included the court chapel or court parish, which, however, was responsible for all court servants in addition to the princely family, as well as for the official court churches .

Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald von Spaur was appointed as the first bishop of this court diocese and thus the highest Munich court clergyman. In the event of war, he automatically assumed the office of Bavarian field bishop . He was succeeded as provost of the Order of St. George by Count Damian Hugo Philipp von Lehrbach (1738–1815).

Spaur had not aspired to become a bishop and, because of his increasing frailty, asked several times for release from office. In 1791 he received the Theatiner Kajetan von Reisach (1735-1805) as coadjutor , who also succeeded him as court bishop when he died in 1793. After his death, Elector Maximilian IV. Joseph had the court bishopric abolished on July 22, 1805. It never came back to life.

literature

  • Max Spindler, Andreas Kraus: Handbook of Bavarian History , Volume 2, Page 1281, CH Beck, 1988, ISBN 3406323200 ; Scan from the source
  • Ingrid van Skyhawk: Adieu Diana: For the 400th birthday of Maria Isabella Countess von Spaur , ISBN 3837026361 , pages 71 and 72; Scans from the source
  • Uwe Distler: Franz Albert Leopold von Oberndorff - the politics of Palatinate Bavaria 1778-1795 , contributions to Palatinate history, Volume 17, District Association Palatinate, 2000, ISBN 978-3-927754-40-9 , pages 175 and 176

Web links

Commons : Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald von Spaur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical website for the sister
  2. ↑ Website on the history of the parish church of St. Nikolaus Höslwang, with a mention of Pastor Spaur ( memento of the original from March 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzbistum-muenchen.de
  3. ^ Journal for Bavarian State History , supplement, 1972, page 221, footnote 4; Excerpt from the source
  4. ^ Gottlob Friedrich Krebel: European Genealogical Handbook , Leipzig, 1768, p. 178 (digital scan)
  5. ^ Karl Otmar von Aretin : Das Alte Reich (1648–1806) , Volume 3, Klett-Cotta, 1997, pages 288 and 289, ISBN 360891398X ; Excerpts from the source
  6. ↑ Georg Schwaiger : Monachium sacrum: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the Metropolitan Church to Our Lady in Munich , Volume 1, Page 189, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1994, ISBN 3422061169 ; Excerpt from the source
  7. ↑ Data page on Bishop Kajetan von Reisach
  8. ^ Contributions to Old Bavarian Church History, Volumes 40–42, 1991, page 76; Excerpt from the source
  9. ^ Helmuth Stahleder : Chronicle of the City of Munich , Volume 3, Forced Gloss: the years 1706-1818 , 2005, ISBN 3937904123 ; Excerpt from the source
personal data
SURNAME Spaur, Joseph Ferdinand Guidobald von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spaur and Valör, Joseph Ferdinand Guidobalds Reichsgraf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palatinate-Bavarian court bishop
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1705
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1793
Place of death Salzburg