Jost von Silenen

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Coat of arms of Jost von Silenen in the parish church of Leukerbad, which he founded . Painted relief: rising lion with the episcopal insignia of sword, miter and crosier.

Jost von Silenen (* between 1435 and 1445 in Küssnacht ; † December 1498 in France ) was from Louis XI. sponsored Bishop of Grenoble and Sion .

Life

Memorial plaque for Jost von Silenen, his brother Albin and Albin's son, Kaspar in the Schlossergasse Lucerne .

Jost von Silenen grew up in the castle in Küssnacht . Until the conversion of the Benedictine monastery in Lucerne ( St. Leodegar in the courtyard ) into a canon monastery in 1455, he had benefices from its builders , the first benefices are documented since he was 13 years old . From 1459 Jost von Silenen studied at the University of Pavia . Until 1469 he was in Rome with the French Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville . From 1468 he was canon in the Leodegarstift Schönenwerd , then until 1482 provost of the Beromünster monastery . Jost's brother Albin von Silenen was captain of the Lucerne troops in the battles near Murten and Nancy . Albin's son and thus Jost's nephew was Kaspar von Silenen .

politics

As envoy of the Swiss Confederation , he was several times at the court of King Ludwig XI. , among other things as a companion of Niklaus von Diesbach . On behalf of Ludwig, he worked on the conclusion of the Eternal Direction between the Old Confederation and Sigismund von Habsburg in 1474. For his contribution to the negotiations on the dissolution of the House of Burgundy after the defeat of Charles the Bold in 1477, Ludwig appointed him Bishop of Grenoble . In 1482 Sixtus IV confirmed his election by the cathedral chapter as bishop of Sion . A donated by Ludwig splendor mitra is preserved in the Diocesan Museum customs, a ceremonial brevier which written in 1493 and from the Jost von Silenen Master of the Breviary has been equipped with rich Illumination, is the Swiss National Museum in Zurich kept. His campaigns in the Val d'Ossola failed, after all the confederates were subject to the Duchy of Milan in the Battle of Crevola , which led to a peace in 1495. Without power or prestige and under pressure from Georg Supersaxo , Jost von Silenen withdrew to Lyon , was deposed as bishop by the Pope in 1497; at last he was titular bishop of Hierapolis . Attempts to recapture on his part failed.

Act

Reliquary of Jost von Silenen from the Gothic church of Küssnacht, built around 1489.

The "Renaissance Prince" is considered to be "artful". He mined the thermal baths of Leukerbad and the silver mines of Bruson ( Bagnes ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Kalbermatter: Silenen, Jost von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
predecessor Office successor
Siboud Alleman Bishop of Grenoble
1482–1484 		Laurent Alleman I.
predecessor Office successor
Walther II. Supersaxo von der Fluhe Bishop of Sitten
1482–1496 		Nicolas Schiner
personal data
SURNAME Jost von Silenen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop and politician of the Old Confederation
DATE OF BIRTH between 1435 and 1445
PLACE OF BIRTH Küssnacht (SZ)
DATE OF DEATH December 1498
Place of death France