Kaspar Andreas von Elmendorff

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Kaspar Andreas Freiherr von Elmendorff (born April 9, 1658 in Füchtel , today part of Vechta ; † March 24, 1730 in Lübeck ) was a Catholic canon in the predominantly Lutheran cathedral chapter in Lübeck.

Life

As early as May 4, 1668, he was eligible for a canon position in the Lübeck cathedral chapter . Due to the normal year rule, Catholics were entitled to four of 30 canon positions. In 1679 he also received a canonical in the St. Alexander monastery in Wildeshausen . After the end of his residency year in Wildeshausen, he was ordained a subdeacon in Münster in 1681 . In 1683 he began his one-year residency in Lübeck; After a few years in Wildeshausen, he moved entirely to Lübeck in 1697. In 1700 he received the deacons in Hildesheim through Bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck as Apostolic Vicar of the North on May 30th - and ordained a priest on June 5th . On September 4, 1705 he was appointed Imperial Councilor by Emperor Joseph I. Most recently he was senior of the cathedral chapter.

In the election of bishops after the death of Prince-Bishop August Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf in 1705, which was accompanied by a military conflict and at Christmas 1705 by the siege and occupation of Eutin Castle by the Danes, Elmendorff belonged to the ultimately defeated party in the chapter, who supported the Danish coadjutor , Prince Carl of Denmark (born October 26, 1680, † August 8, 1729), a younger brother of the Danish King Frederick IV . However, through diplomatic intervention by the English Queen Anne and the States General and after the assurance of a pension, the latter was forced to give up his claim, so that Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, the candidate of the Godfathers and Sweden- allied party , could succeed. The dispute was finally settled only after the conclusion of the Altranstädter Convention , when Christian August was enfeoffed with the Lübeck Monastery by the Emperor in 1709 .

His grave, the inscription of which describes him as huius cathedralis ecclesiae canonicus presbyter et sacerdos , is in the southern ambulatory of Lübeck Cathedral . He bequeathed his goblet and silver measuring jug with plate to the Catholic chapel in Lübeck, which was under imperial protection. The plate that bears his coat of arms has been preserved to this day.

See also

literature

  • Everhard Illigens : History of the Lübeck Church from 1530 to 1896, that is the history of the former Catholic diocese and the current Catholic community as well as the Catholic bishops, canons and pastors of Lübeck from 1530 to 1896. Paderborn 1896, esp. Pp. 61f, 65f.
  • Wolfgang Prange : Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 398 No. 284

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter von Kobbe : Schleswig-Holstein history from the death of Duke Christian Albrecht to the death of King Christian VII (1694 to 1808). Altona: Hammerich 1834, p. 42
  2. ^ Eduard Vehse: History of the small German courts since the Reformation. Part 14: The spiritual courts , Volume 4, Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe 1860, p. 85
  3. ↑ CR Rasmussen, E. Imberger, D. Lohmeier, I. Mommsen: The princes of the country - dukes and counts of Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg . Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2008., p. 195.


personal data
SURNAME Elmendorff, Kaspar Andreas von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elmendorff, Kaspar Andreas Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic Canon in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Füchtel , today part of Vechta
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1730
Place of death Lübeck