List of the bishops of Constance

Coat of arms of the Bishops of Constance from 1569 (modern colored). Blazon : a red cross in silver.

Coats of arms of the Bishops of Constance by Franz Xaver Stiehle, mid-19th century (initially fantasy coat of arms or coats of arms derived from later family coats of arms, later partly unreliable)

The list of bishops of Constance is made up of the prince-bishops of the Diocese of Constance . Especially for the early period of the diocese, which is dated to the late 6th century , the names and dates are not fully secured.

The prince-bishop was not only the supreme pastor of the diocese , but also secular ruler over the rather small and scattered territories of the prince-bishopric of Constance and therefore had a viril vote in the imperial council .

While the bishop was also the secular ruler of the city of Constance in the early Middle Ages , it became a free imperial city towards the end of the 12th century , which restricted the bishop's jurisdiction to a small area around the cathedral. Numerous bishops were therefore in conflict with the city. The cathedral chapter , too, often played out its position of power against the bishop. The seat of the bishops was the bishop's palace next to the Konstanz cathedral . During the Reformation the bishop moved his seat to Meersburg , where he stayed until the dissolution of the diocese by Pope Pius VII in 1821.

The bishop was normally elected by the cathedral chapter . Since the Pope and Emperor often tried to enforce their candidates - or even put them directly into office - there were occasional conflicts. Especially in the 11th-15th Century there were multiple occupations, so in the Investiture Controversy 1080–1112, in the double elections 1307, 1334, 1356, during the Occidental Schism 1384–1406, when the bishops of Pope and Antipope competed, and in the Constance diocese dispute 1474–1480.

Two of the Constance bishops, Konrad I and Gebhard II , were canonized in the 12th century and especially venerated in the diocese.

Bishops of Vindonissa / Constance

No.	bishop	from	to	description	image	coat of arms	Coat of arms (Stiehle, 19th century)
01	Bubulcus	515	534	first bishop of Vindonissa (Diocese of Windisch-Konstanz) (517-534)
02	Cromatius	534	552	second bishop of Vindonissa (Diocese of Windisch-Konstanz) (534–562)
03	Ursinus I.	550	580s	third bishop of Vindonissa (Diocese of Windisch-Konstanz) (534-562)
04th	Maximus	End of the 6th century		first bishop of Constance to found the diocese of Constance around 585/590
05	Ruodelo	at 583	at 589
06th	Ursinus II.	at 589	around 600
07th	Gaudentius	at 612/13
08th	Johann I.	between 615 u. 629/639?
09	Martianus	between 629 u. 639
10	Othardus	Middle of the 7th century
11	Pictavus	Middle of the 7th century
12	Severius	Middle of the 7th century
13	Astropius	Middle of the 7th century
14th	Johann II. (?)	Middle of the 7th century
15th	Boso	2nd half of the 7th century
16	Gandolphus	2nd half of the 7th century
17th	Fidelis	2nd half of the 7th century
18th	Theobaldus (?)	2nd half of the 7th century
19th	Audoin		to 736
20th	Arnefried	736	746	Arnefried-Ernfried; Abbot of the Reichenau Monastery (726–746)
21st	Sidonius	746	760	Abbot of the Reichenau Monastery (746–760)
22nd	John II of Constance	760	782	Abbot of the Abbey of St. Gallen (759–782); Abbot of the Reichenau Monastery (760–782)
23	Egino	782	811
24	Wolfleoz	811	838 (839)	Abbot of the Abbey of St. Gallen (812–816)
25th	Solomon I.	838 (839)	871
26th	Patecho	871	?
27	Gebhard I.	?	875
28	Solomon II	875 (876?)	889
29	Solomon III from Ramschwag	890	919	Plant of the crypt (?)
30th	Noting from Constance	919/920	934
31	Konrad I of Altdorf	934	975	Construction of the Mauritius Rotunda ; Founding churches; Canonization 1123
32	Gaminolf	975	979
33	Gebhard II of Bregenz	979	995	Founding of the Petershausen Monastery ; Canonization 1134
34	Lambert	(995)	1018	Münster receives an Ottonian transept
35	Rudhart	1018	1022
36	Heimo	1022	1026
37	Warmann (Warmund) from Dillingen	1026	1034
38	Eberhard I.	1034	1046				"Rohrdorf" coat of arms (unhistorical)
39	Theodoric	1047	1051
40	Rumold of Constance	1051	1069	New construction of the cathedral long house
40	Karl of Constance	1069	1071	resignation
41	Otto I of Lierheim	1071	1086	Deposed by the Pope in 1080 in the investiture dispute
43	Bertolf	1080	1084	papal
44	Gebhard III. from Zähringen	1084	1110	papal
45	Arnold von Heiligenberg	1092	1112	imperial
46	Ulrich I of Kyburg-Dillingen	1111	1127
47	Ulrich II of Constance	1127	1138	resignation
48	Hermann I of Arbon	1138	1165
49	Otto II (of Habsburg?)	1165	1174	resignation
50	Berthold von Bussnang	1174	1183
51	Hermann von Friedingen	1183	1189
52	Diethelm von Krenkingen	1189	1206
53	Werner von Staufen	1206	1209
54	Konrad II of Tegerfelden	1209	1233
55	Heinrich von Tanne	1233	1248
56	Eberhard II of Waldburg	1248	1274
57	Rudolf I of Habsburg-Laufenburg	1274	1293
58	Friedrich I of Zollern	1293	1293	resignation
59	Heinrich II of Klingenberg	1293	1306	Double election of Rudolf von Hewen and Ludwig von Strassberg
60	Gerhard von Bevar	1307	1318	Double choice: Konrad von Klingenberg (resignation) and Heinrich von Werdenberg ( resigns )
61	Rudolf II of Montfort	1322	1334	Double election: Albert von Hohenberg (waived 1335) and Nikolaus von Frauenfeld
62	Nikolaus von Frauenfeld	1334	1344
63	Ulrich Pfefferhard	1345	1351
64	Johann Windlock	1352	1356	murdered; subsequent double election: Albert von Hohenberg u. Ulrich von Friedingen - both candidates not confirmed. Lupold von Bebenburg rejects the office.
65	Henry III. from Brandis	1357	1383
66	Swiss chard from Brandis	1384	1385	Bishop of the Pope at Avignon
67	Nikolaus von Riesenburg	1384	1387	Bishop of the Pope in Rome, resignation
68	Heinrich von Bayler	1387	1388	Bishop of the Pope at Avignon
69	Burkard I. von Hewen	1387	1398	until 1388 custodian; Bishop of the Pope in Rome
70	Friedrich II of Nellenburg	1398		Bishop of the Pope in Rome; resignation
71	Marquard von Randegg	1398	1406	previously Bishop of Minden
72	Albrecht Blarer	1407	1410	resignation
73	Otto III. from Hachberg	1410	1434	Council of Constance (1414-1418); resignation
74	Friedrich III. from Zollern	1434	1436	Counter-bishop
75	Heinrich IV von Hewen	1436	1462	Administrator of the Diocese of Chur
76	Burkhard II of Randegg	1462	1466
77	Hermann III. from Breitenlandenberg	1466	1474
78	Ludwig von Freiberg	1474	1481	Constance diocese dispute ; Pope's candidate
79	Otto IV von Sonnenberg	1474	1491	Constance diocese dispute ; Candidate for the cathedral chapter and the emperor
80	Thomas Berlower	1491	1496	also Thomas von Cilli ; Imperial protonotary and councilor, provost of Constance and Vienna, assessor of the chamber court
81	Hugo von Hohenlandenberg	1496 1531	1529 1532	Because of the Reformation in 1526 he moved from Constance and moved the residence to Meersburg , resigned in 1529, again from 1531 to 1532 because of the death of his successor
82	Balthasar Merklin	1530	1531
83	Johannes von Lupfen	1532	1537
84	Johann von Weeze	1537	1548	The title of the Reichenau Monastery goes to the Bishops of Constance
85	Christoph Metzler	1549	1561
86	Markus Sittikus of Hohenems	1561	1589	resignation
87	Andreas of Austria	1589	1600	Settlement of Jesuits
88	Johann Georg von Hallwyl	1601	1604	is considered a reform bishop
89	Jakob Fugger	1604	1626
90	Sixt Werner Vogt from Altensumerau and Prasberg	1626	1627
91	Johann von Waldburg	1627	1644
92	Franz Johann Vogt of Altensumerau and Prasberg	1645	1689
93	Marquard Rudolf von Rodt	1689	1704
94	Johann Franz II of Stauffenberg	1704	1740	Resignation; Start of construction of the Meersburg New Palace, also Prince-Bishop of Augsburg
95	Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn-Buchheim	1740	1743	also Prince-Bishop of Speyer, continuation of the construction of the Meersburg New Palace
96	Kasimir Anton von Sickingen	1743	1750	Continuation of the construction of the Meersburg New Palace
97	Franz Konrad von Rodt	1750	1775	Cardinal; Completion of the Meersburg New Palace
98	Maximilian Christoph von Rodt	1775	1799
99	Karl Theodor von Dalberg	1799	1817	further bishop thrones in Worms, Regensburg and Mainz, Prince of Aschaffenburg, Grand Duke of Frankfurt
	( Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg )			Elected vicar capitular and diocese administrator in 1817 ; however, the election was never recognized by Pope Pius VII and the diocese was dissolved in 1821.

See also

Areas of the former diocese of Constance are now part of several dioceses.

• List of the bishops of Chur
• List of the bishops of Basel
• List of the bishops of Augsburg
• List of the bishops of St. Gallen
• List of the Archbishops of Freiburg
• List of the bishops of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

literature

swell

Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD (Ernst Friedrich Mooyer, Ed.), Minden 1854, pp. 30–31

literature

• Elmar L. Kuhn , Eva Moser, Rudolf Reinhardt, Petra Sachs on behalf of the Archdiocese of Freiburg (ed.): The Bishops of Constance. 2 volumes . Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1988, ISBN 3-922137-48-2 .
• Helmut Maurer: Constance in the Middle Ages (3 volumes), Volume 2, From the Council to the beginning of the 16th century . In: History of the City of Constance . Stadler, Konstanz 1989, ISBN 3-7977-0224-8 .
• Helmut Maurer: The bishops from the end of the 6th century to 1206 (=  Germania Sacra . The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz . Volume 5 ). De Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017664-5 ( Online [PDF; 10.9 MB ; accessed on May 24, 2019] Incorrectly referred to as Volume 2 in the book.).

Web links

Commons : Bishops of Konstanz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Coat of arms of the bishops of Constance

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The list contains data from Kuhn et al. a. (1988) is the basis; for the early bishops up to Diethelm von Krenkingen (1206) the revised version by Helmut Maurer (overview, 2003): Digitalisat .