Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg

Bishop Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg

Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg in Anselmus van Hulle: Les hommes illustres qui ont vécu dans le XVII. siecle , 1717.

Epitaph in Mainz Cathedral

Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg (born July 15, 1622 in Koblenz , † September 26, 1679 in Aschaffenburg ) was elector and archbishop of Mainz from January 9, 1679 until his death, and from January 30, 1679 also Prince-Bishop of Worms . He is buried in Mainz Cathedral .

biography

Karl Heinrich came from the Metternich-Winneburg house . He was the son of the imperial court war council and burgrave Wilhelm von Metternich-Winneburg in Eger and his wife Eleonora nee. from Brömser from Rüdesheim . In 1647 he and his family were taken prisoner in Sweden and were only released for a large ransom. On April 5, 1655 he became cathedral scholaster in Mainz, from 1664 to 1666 he was rector of the University of Mainz , in 1665 he was ordained a priest, in 1674 he advanced to cathedral curator .

On January 9, 1679, he was elected bishop of Mainz, and on January 30 of the same year he was also elected shepherd in Worms. The confirmation bull of Pope Innocent XI. did not arrive until after his death; he was no longer ordained bishop.

During his short term in office as the elected bishop of two dioceses, he succeeded in persuading the "Welschnonnen", Augustinian choir women from Luxembourg, to come to Mainz to improve the school system . However, the nuns did not arrive until after his death. In Mainz they built a monastery and church .

On his first trip to the northern part of the diocese, he contracted a catarrh and soon died of a stroke in Aschaffenburg .

Johann Ferdinand von Sickingen , Minister and diplomat of the Electorate of the Palatinate , was his nephew (son of sister Anna Margarethe).

literature

Franz Werner : The cathedral of Mainz and its monuments; together with a description of the fate of the city and the history of its archbishops , 1836, scan of the chapter on Bishop Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg
Constantin von Wurzbach : Metternich, Karl Heinrich von, Elector of Mainz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, p. 53 ( digitized version ).
Friedhelm Jürgensmeier : Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg in the mirror of the information process of 1679 . In: Contributions to the history of the Mainz church in modern times. Festschrift for Anton Philipp Brück on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine region, Volume 17). Mainz 1973, pp. 319-331.
Ludwig Falck : The successors of Willigis on the Mainz chair . In: Wilhelm Jung (Ed.): 1000 Years of Mainz Cathedral - Becoming and Change , Mainz 1975.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Elisabeth Darapsky : History of the Welschnonnen in Mainz (= contributions to the history of the city of Mainz, Volume 25). Mainz 1980.

predecessor	Office	successor
Damian Hartard von der Leyen	Elector Archbishop of Mainz 1679	Anselm Franz von Ingelheim
Damian Hartard von der Leyen	Prince-Bishop of Worms 1679	Franz Emmerich Kaspar Waldbott von Bassenheim

personal data
SURNAME	Metternich-Winneburg, Karl Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Archbishop of Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1622
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1679
Place of death	Aschaffenburg

[1] Elisabeth Darapsky : History of the Welschnonnen in Mainz (= contributions to the history of the city of Mainz, Volume 25). Mainz 1980.