Karl von Lamberg

Coat of arms of Prince Karl von Lamberg, Prince-Archbishop of Prague

Karl von Lamberg (also Karl Freiherr von Lamberg ; Czech: Karel z Lamberka ; * 1570 or according to Krick November 8, 1571 ; † September 18, 1612 in Ossegg ) was Archbishop of Prague from 1607 to 1612 and Grand Master of the Cross with the Red Star . As early as 1606 he was made imperial prince .

Life

Karl Freiherr von Lamberg came from the expired Lichtenwald line of the ancient noble noble family von Lamberg . His and his brother Johann Jakob von Lamberg, born in 1561, were Sigismund Freiherr von Lamberg from the house of Ortenegg ( Ortnek in Slovenia ) and Ottenstein and Siguna Eleonora Fugger from Kirchberg and Weißenhorn . Nothing is known about his training. Around 1589 he became pastor of St. Aegid (ius) in Passau. From 1590 he was canon and from 1598 dean of the Passau cathedral chapter , 1598 chapter dean of Salzburg and Regensburg .

Archbishop of Prague

After the death of the Prague Archbishop Zbynko Berka von Duba and Leipa , Emperor Rudolf II nominated Karl von Lamberg in his capacity as King of Bohemia on October 10, 1606 as his successor and at the same time made him Prince of the Empire. The papal confirmation from 14 May 1607 was followed by the October 7, 1607 episcopal ordination . Although the Prague Cross Lords with the Red Star had elected Prior General Laurentius Nigrinus (1588–1638) as Grand Master before the nomination, they had to take the newly elected Archbishop Karl von Lamberg to the office of Grand Master on March 3, 1607 under royal and papal pressure deploy. In 1608 the Protestant estates demanded that the Prague Archbishop always be a Bohemian in future.

Immediately after the beginning of his term of office, Lamberg ordered the implementation of the Trento decrees . In 1608 he participated in the settlement of a settlement between Emperor Rudolf II and Archduke Matthias . Since his predecessor had left considerable debts, Lamberg received a canonical in Olomouc in 1610 with papal permission , with which his financial situation should be improved. In the same year he issued a regulation for the Lords of the Cross that obliged the order to submit regular accounts.

Since Lamberg's health was weakened, his auxiliary bishop Jan Lohelius , abbot of the Strahov monastery and at the same time general visitator of the Premonstratensians , took over the management of the archbishopric. Therefore, on May 12, 1612, at the request of Emperor Matthias, he was appointed coadjutor by the Pope , while at the same time he was assured the right of succession. Lamberg, who was in a strained relationship with Lohelius, increasingly withdrew to the archbishopric of the Ossegg monastery and in 1612, at the urging of the state officials, contractually left the diocese administration to the coadjutor in return for a pension. He died soon after and was buried in the monastery church of Ossegg.

literature

• The arms of the Bohemian nobility , J. Siebmacher's grosses Wappenbuch, vol. 30, p. 141; Coat of Arms 66.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Lamberg, Karl Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 33 ( digitized version ).
• Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families . Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, ISBN 3-7686-5002-2 , s. Note 1 p. 115 ff. With overview table of the princes of Lamberg.
• Heribert Sturm : Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries , edited by Collegium Carolinum , Volume II, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 369.
• Winfried Eberhard. In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448–1648 . 1996. ISBN 3-428-08422-5 , pp. 403-404.
• Irmgard Bezzel: The library of the Gurk bishop Johann Jakob von Lamberg (1561-1630). A library of Romanesque prints from the 16th century. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. Volume 89, (November 5) 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2919–2928, here: pp. 2922 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Heinrich Krick: The former cathedral monastery Passau and the former collegiate monasteries of the diocese of Passau. Passau 1922, pp. 13 and 69.

predecessor	Office	successor
Zbynko Berka from Duba and Leipa	Archbishop of Prague 1607–1612	Jan Lohelius