Landolf von Hoheneck

Family coat of arms of the extinct Palatinate noble family von Hoheneck

Landolf of Hoheneck († 8 / 11 June 1247 ) was from 1234 until his death Bishop of Worms .

origin

Landolf came from a ministerial family von Hoheneck who was already in the service of Emperor Frederick I and called themselves as Burgmanns of the Palatinate Lautern "de Lutra" and later "von Hoheneck" after Hohenecken Castle . Landolf's father was Reinhard I. de Lutra († 1218) , the Lauterer Reichsschultheiß . As dean of the cathedral, Landolf was involved in the settlement of the dispute over the settlement of the Dominicans in Worms in 1232 and in the contract concluded in 1233 between the city of Worms and Bishop Heinrich II of Saarbrücken .

Bishop of Worms

Subsequent Rococo epitaph of the bishop, formerly Maria Munster Monastery, now Worms Cathedral

Epitaph inscription

Landolf was elected bishop of Worms on October 5, 1234 and shortly thereafter confirmed by Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried von Eppstein . King Heinrich (VII) awarded him the regalia . Landulf was one of the imperial bishops who supported King Heinrich (VII) in the conflict with his father, Emperor Friedrich II . However, the city of Worms opposed Heinrich and was besieged by him in vain in 1235. After Heinrich submitted to his father in Wimpfen in 1235 , Friedrich planned to reoccupy the diocese of Worms. However, Landolf succeeded in rehabilitation by Pope Gregory IX in 1236 . and to be reconciled with the emperor whom he accompanied on his train to Italy in 1237. In the future, Landulf was a loyal supporter of Frederick II, even after he was banned by the Pope in 1239. When Landulf refused to impose the interdict against the city of Worms , which was loyal to the emperor, he was excommunicated by the Archbishop of Mainz in 1244 . When the Worms clergy refused to hold church services in the city as a result of the deposition of the emperor at the Council of Lyon , Landolf finally gave in and submitted to Pope Innocent IV , who lifted the excommunication in 1245. Landolf's refusal to recognize the rival king Heinrich Raspe led to another excommunication in 1246.

In his diocese he promoted the religious women's movement. After a reformation of the Nonnenmünster monastery failed, he handed it over to the Cistercian women in 1237 . The Kirschgarten nunnery also joined the Cistercian sisters. Newly founded Cistercian convents were Rosenthal and Frauenzimmern .

After his death in 1247, Landolf von Hoheneck was buried in the Cistercian convent Maria Münster (Nonnenmünster) . In 1756 his family member, the Mainz cathedral dean and Worms canon Johann Franz Jakob Anton von Hoheneck (1686–1758) had a rococo epitaph set for him in the monastery church there , which was placed in the Worms cathedral when the convent was dissolved (1802) (today northern Transept).

literature

• Burkhard Keilmann: Ludolf von Hoheneck . In: Erwin Gatz (ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , pp. 863-864 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Wörner: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse: inventory and descriptive representation of the works of architecture, sculpture, painting and the arts and crafts up to the end of the 18th century. Century: Province of Rheinhessen, Worms District , Darmstadt 1887, p. 201; (Digital view)

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich II of Saarbrücken	Bishop of Worms 1234-1247	Conrad III. from Dürkheim