Leonhard Peurl

Prince-Bishop Leonhard Peurl (left) next to his successor in office Philipp Renner (oil painting 17th century)

Leonhard Peurl ( also Pewerl , * 1454 ; † November 5, 1536 ) was Bishop of Lavant .

Leonhard Peurl

Leonhard Peuerl was born in St. Florian as the son of the episcopal Lavantine lawyer Bernhard Peurl. One of his brothers was St. Lambrecht's bailiff in Pibertal in western Styria , and was nephew as administrator of Graz Castle . On April 14, 1470 Leonhard Peurl is registered in the registers of the University of Vienna . This entry Leonardus Pewrl de Spanberg prope Grecz proves the origin of the Peuerlhof in Schwanberg .

On October 4, 1494 Leonhard Peurl became the economists of the Salzburg archdiocese ordered 1494-1514 he was dean in Salzburg , in 1498 he took over as representative of the Archbishop at the Reichstag King Maximilian I to Freiburg part. From 1508 he exercised his Salzburg functions parallel to his bishopric in Lavant. The election for this took place on November 26th, the consecration on December 13th 1508 in Salzburg.

The poor economic situation of the diocese, which was exacerbated by peasant uprisings and the constant threat from the Turks, caused the bishop great concern. With the appointment of Gurk Bishop Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg as coadjutor in Salzburg in 1514, Peurl's function as cathedral dean ended and attempts began to add a coadjutor to him because of his sickness, which was initially rejected successfully. It was not until February 24, 1524 that Philipp Renner was appointed, but he was initially rejected. Peurl should have kept the economic administration and the spiritual administration should have passed to Renner. Philipp Renner received the provost office of St. Bartholomä zu Friesach as an apartment and was only able to exercise his function from 1533.

In 1536 Peurl renounced his episcopate. He died in the same year and was buried in the cathedral (now collegiate church) in St. Andrä.

Leonhard Peurl was also active in the Patriarchate of Aquileia . The authorizations were based on his appointment as suffragan of the Patriarchate of Aquileia for the area "this side of the mountains". This appointment was made by Dominicus Grimani, Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Patriarch of Aquileia , on May 18, 1511 in Rome . Leonhard Peurl was thus authorized to consecrate priests, churches and altars, to make visitations and to hold synods. As a result, due to this appointment, he had more far-reaching authorizations in the archdeaconates of Krain , Saunien , Upper Carinthia , Gailtal and Jauntal, which belong to the Archdiocese of Aquileia , as well as in the Windischen Mark and in Reifnitz than in his own, in comparison much smaller diocese. In the years 1511 and 1512 Bishop Peurl is called "episcopus Lauentinensis suffraganeusque Aquilegiensis diocesis" . These powers have their background in the disputes between Emperor Maximilian and the Republic of Venice in Northern Italy, which, among other things, concerned rule in the County of Gorizia and which made it practically impossible for the Patriarchate of Aquileia to exercise its rights in Carinthia, Carniola and other possessions to perceive in the domain of the Habsburgs. Episcopal acts of Leonhard Peurl outside his diocese in Carinthia (e.g. in Windischgraz on June 6, 1517), in Carniola and in Lower Styria on or south of the Drau are based on these powers .

literature

• Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1448 to 1648. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08422-5 .
• Ferdinand Hutz: The ordination register of Lavant Bishop Leonhard Peurl 1509–1536 (= sources on the historical regional studies of Styria. Vol. 10). Historical Provincial Commission for Styria, Graz 1994, ISBN 3-901251-06-5 .
• Oskar Veselsky: The consecration reports from the ordination and consecration protocols of the bishops of Lavant in the 16th century (= sources on the historical regional studies of Styria. Vol. 11, ZDB -ID 559606-3 ). Historical Provincial Commission for Styria, Graz 1997.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hutz: The ordination register of Lavant Bishop Leonhard Peurl 1509-1536. 1994, pp. XV-XVI.
2. ↑ Hutz: The ordination register of Lavant Bishop Leonhard Peurl 1509-1536. 1994, p. 139.