Ludwig IV of Teck

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Ludwig IV of Teck (* between 1346 and 1396 ; † 1439 in Aquileia ) was Patriarch of Aquileia from 1412 to 1439 .

Life

Ludwig IV., Son of Friedrich III. von Teck and Anna von Helfenstein-Blaubeuren , was the last offspring of the Swabian family Teck . He studied at the University of the City of Padua , whose citizenship he obtained on January 4, 1395. In 1402 he applied for the title of Patriarch of Aquileia . Despite the support of his brother-in-law, Count Friedrich von Ortenburg, and the use of significant sums of money in Rome, Antonio Panciera , Bishop of Concordia, was appointed patriarch. When he became a cardinal in 1411 and gave up the patriarchal chair, the chapter of Aquileia elected Ludwig IV, King Sigmund's candidate , as patriarch on July 6, 1412 . On July 12, Ludwig, who had only received the minor orders up to then, was given by Count Heinrich VI in the Cathedral of Cividale . von Gorizia as agent of the king the investiture . The ecclesiastical confirmation came only on February 28, 1418 by Pope Martin V.

Because of the dispute with the Republic of Venice , which the Friuli wanted to take possession of and remove the patriarch's secular rule, Ludwig found himself in great distress. Sigmund, who had made a five-year peace with Venice on April 17, 1413, could hardly support him because he was already taken against the Turks and in Dalmatia . Count Heinrich von Görz, first appointed by Sigmund as the imperial administrator and then as governor in Friuli, could not help him either. After the five-year peace ended on April 21, 1418, the patriarchate's feudal nobility, which had always been insubordinate, welcomed the Venetian army with open arms. After fighting, the whole province fell into the hands of Venice, a reconquest with the help of Hungarian mercenaries failed.

Ludwig lost all effective diplomatic support. The process he initiated against Venice at the Council of Basel for the surrender of his land led to the imposition of a ban and an interdict on the republic on December 23, 1435 , but this did not change the facts.

Since his elevation to patriarch, Ludwig was often entrusted with commissions by the emperor and then also by King Albrecht II ; from 1433 he took part in the Council of Basel. He meets us again and again as a member of the Deputatio pro communibus , as its President and as President of the General Congregation, as a benefit lender, major poenitentiary, and also as a deputy for cardinals. In 1436 he went to the Council of Emperor Sigmund as envoy, in March 1438 to the election of a king in Frankfurt am Main , in May afterwards to King Albrecht, in July and October he attended the Nuremberg Reichstag and in the following year, shortly before his death, still in the Mainz Congress part.

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