List of the bishops of Brandenburg
In the list of the bishops of Brandenburg all bishops of the diocese of Brandenburg are recorded.
history
The first bishop Thietmar was installed with the establishment of the diocese in 948. In the first two centuries there is hardly any information about the origins and activities of the bishops. In 983 the seat in Brandenburg Castle had to be given up after the Slav uprising, the bishops lived in exile for over 150 years and had no access to the diocese territory.
Bishop Wigger was able to reside in the diocese east of the Elbe for the first time after 1138 in Leitzkau ; Bishop Wilmar moved the seat back to the cathedral in Brandenburg in 1161. The bishops had since then always with the desire of the Brandenburg Margraves deal, they landsässigen to make subjects and their direct imperial abandon status as imperial princes. In 1447 Elector Friedrich II succeeded in getting the right of nomination for the election of bishops from Pope Nicholas V , and since then the electors have been able to propose the new bishop.
Bishop Matthias Jagow accepted the Reformation for the diocese in 1541 and headed it as a Protestant bishop.
Structures
There is no information about the origin of the first bishops and their appointment. They had been Premonstratensian since 1138 and were elected by the cathedral chapter , mostly confirmed by the Pope and then consecrated by the Archbishop of Magdeburg or another bishop. Since 1507 they no longer had to belong to any order.
Most of the bishops were of aristocratic origin, Siegfried I even from the family of the Ascanian margraves. Stephan Bodecker and Hieronymus Schulz were certainly not of noble origin, with some others it seems possible.
The bishops of Brandenburg ruled as prince-bishops over a secular territory, the bishopric of Brandenburg , whose area was clearly smaller than the diocese of Brandenburg. They were thus imperial princes .
list
| Surname | from | to | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thietmar | 948 | 968 | first bishop of Brandenburg |
| Dodilo | 968 | 980 | |
| Volkmar I. | 980 | 992 | in exile since 983 |
| Wigo | 992 | 1018 | in exile |
| Ezilo | 1018 | 1022 | in exile has not been confirmed |
| Luizo | 1022 | 1032 | in exile |
| Rudolf? | around 1032 | 1048 | |
| Dankward | before 1049 | 1063 | in exile, also Dankwart |
| Volkward | 1063 | 1068 | in exile |
| Thiedo | 1068 | after 1085 | in exile, also Thido, Theodor, Thietgrim |
| Volkmar II. | 1085 | 1102 | in exile |
| Hartbert | 1102 | 1122 or 1123 | in exile |
| Ludolf | 1123 or 1124 | 1137 | in exile |
| Lambert | 1137 | 1138 | in exile, also Landbert |
| Wigger | 1138 | 1159 | went to Leitzkau, Premonstratensian |
| Wilmar | 1160 | 1173 | moved the bishopric back to the cathedral in 1165, Premonstratensian, |
| Siegfried I. | 1173 | 1179 | Son of Margrave Albrecht the Bear, later Archbishop of Bremen, † 1184 |
| Valeram | 1179 or 1180 | 1190 | Premonstratensians |
| Alexius | 1190 | 1192 | Premonstratensians |
| Norbert | 1192 | 1205 | Premonstratensians |
| Baldwin | 1205 | 1216 | Premonstratensians, including Baldwin |
| Siegfried II. | 1216 | 1220 | Premonstratensians |
| Ludolf von Schwanebeck | 1221 | 1222 | was not confirmed |
| Wichmann von Arnstein | 1221 | 1222 | elected as counterbishop of the Leitzkauer chapter, also not confirmed |
| Gernand | 1222 | 1241 | Premonstratensians |
| Rutger | 1241 | 1251 | Premonstratensians |
| Otto | 1251 | 1260 or 1261 | Premonstratensians |
| Albert von Arnstein | 1261 | 1263 | Candidate from Leitzkau, was not confirmed, withdrew from the election in 1263 |
| Heinrich I. | 1261 | 1278 | |
| Gebhard | 1278 | 1287 | |
| Heidenreich | 1287 | 1291 | |
| Richard | did not accept the election | ||
| Lockpick | 1291 | 1296 | was not confirmed |
| Volrad | 1296 | 1302 | |
| Friedrich | 1303 | 1316 | |
| John I. | 1316 | 1324 | |
| Heinrich von Barby | 1324 | 1327 | was not confirmed by the Pope |
| Ludwig | 1327 | 1347 | also Ludwig von Neuendorf |
| Dietrich I. | 1347 | 1365 | |
| Dietrich II. | 1366 | 1393 | |
| Henry II | 1393 | 1406 | also Heinrich von Bodendleck |
| Henning | 1406 | 1414 | |
| Friedrich von Grafeneck | 1414 | 1414 | provident bishop from Augsburg |
| Nikolaus von Burgsdorff | 1415 | 1417 | Elect |
| John II | 1415 | 1420 | then Bishop of Lebus , † 1423 |
| Stephan | 1421 | 1459 | |
| Dietrich III. | 1459 | 1472 | |
| Arnold | 1472 | 1485 | |
| Joachim I. | 1485 | 1507 | |
| Jerome | 1507 | 1520 | then Bishop of Havelberg , † 1522 |
| Dietrich IV. | 1520 | 1526 | |
| Evangelical bishops | |||
| Matthias | 1526 | 1544 | |
| Sedis vacancy | 1544 | 1545 | |
| Joachim II | 1545 | 1560 | |
| Johann Georg | 1560 | 1569 or 1571 | Prince Elector of Brandenburg (Verweser) |
| Joachim Friedrich | 1569 or 1571 | 1569 or 1571 | Elector Prince and Elector of Brandenburg |
After secularization, united with the Electorate of Brandenburg .
literature
- Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: lists of German bishops since the year 800 AD, together with an appendix, containing the dignitaries of several abbeys and orders of knights. Minden 1854, pp. 13-14 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: Onomastikon chronographikon hierarchiae Germanicae - directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD. Volume 1. Self-published, Leipzig 1858, OCLC 257540130 , pp. 47–56 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Hermann Grote : Family Tables. With an appendix: Calendarium medii aevi. Hahn'sche publishing house. Leipzig 1877, OCLC 7314153 , p. 514; Reprint: Holzminden Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-8262-0700-9 .
- Gerd Heinrich (Ed.): Berlin and Brandenburg (= handbook of the historical sites of Germany. Vol. 10; Kröner's pocket edition . Vol. 311). Among employees by Peter Baumgart u. a. A. Kröner, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-520-31101-1 ; 3rd, revised. and additional edition: Berlin and Brandenburg with Neumark and Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia. ibid. 1995, ISBN 3-520-31103-8 .
- Max Wilberg : Regent Tables - A compilation of the rulers of countries on all continents up to the beginning of the 20th century. Transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00094-2 (Unchanged photomechanical reprint of the Beholtz edition, Frankfurt / Oder 1906) ( online in: openlibrary.org ); Reprint publ. Holzminden, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-8262-2305-5 (the same; in Fraktur ).
- Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire (1198–1448) (= The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. A biographical lexicon. Tl. [1]). Arranged by Clemens Brodkorb. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 .
- Gustav Abb , Fritz Bünger , Gottfried Wentz : The Diocese of Brandenburg. Part 1 (= Germania Sacra . AF, Section 1: The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg ). de Gruyter, Berlin 1929, DNB 365348651 ; photomechan. Reprint: ibid. 1963, DNB 450583619 ( limited preview in the Google book search), and the associated bishop overview (see web links).
Web links
- Brandenburg bishops (948–1544) in the Germania Sacra. In: gsacra.uni-goettingen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The existence of this bishop is not clear. It is missing from Gustav Abb , Gottfried Wentz : The Diocese of Brandenburg. Part 1, 1929.
- ↑ Cf. Felix Escher: Nikolaus von Burgsdorff (OPraem) (1375 – 1443 at the earliest) 1415–1417 Elekt von Brandenburg. In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. Tl. 1. 2001, p. 77 (see section Literature ) and title entry. In: opac.regesta-imperii.de, accessed on August 5, 2016.