Marquard von Hattstein

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Bishop Marquard von Hattstein
Marquard von Hattstein (false name Holstein ), engraving, 1580
Coat of arms of the Marquard von Hattstein

Marquard von Hattstein (born August 29, 1529 in Usingen / Taunus ; † December 7, 1581 in Udenheim, today Philippsburg / Baden ) was Prince-Bishop of Speyer from 1560 to 1581 .

family

Marquard came from the noble Hattstein family from Hesse (initially "Hazechenstein"), who, as evidenced by the Walsdorf founding document from 1156, had already resided at the castle of the same name in the Taunus . There was a close connection between the family and the Catholic Church because Hattstein Castle was half a fiefdom of the Archdiocese of Trier .

He was the son of Conrad von Hattstein († 1553), Nassau bailiff to Usingen , Kurmainzer Vizedom , marshal and court judge, and his wife Agathe Schenk zu Schweinsberg . The Mainz canon and cathedral builder Johann von Hattstein († 1518) was his great-uncle.

Life

Marquard was appointed bishop coadjutor of the sick Bishop Rudolf von Speyer on August 16, 1559 by Pope Paul IV - two days before his death . When he died on June 21, 1560, the new Pope Pius IV appointed Marquard bishop; the episcopal ordination took place in 1561. In religious terms, the bishop largely relied on his dean and confidante Andreas von Oberstein (1533-1603), an important reformer in the sense of the Council of Trent . He initially appointed Matthias Ob as his auxiliary bishops , and Heinrich Fabricius after his death .

After the Hambach Castle, owned by the Diocese of Speyer, was conquered and burned down in 1552 by the troops of the margrave and mercenary leader Albrecht Alcibiades , Marquard arranged for the makeshift repair of the residential buildings and made the ruinous property the seat of a forester. From 1569 until his death in 1581, Bishop Marquard von Hattstein was chamber judge of the Reich Chamber Court .

Bishop Marquard was close to Kaspar Schwenckfeld and promoted his followers since the beginning of the 1570s. He remained Catholic, but maintained good contacts with the Electoral Palatinate and repeatedly considered secularization of the diocese and his own marriage.

Marquard died in the Udenheim residence of the prince-bishops of Speyer on the right bank of the Rhine, which was renamed “Philippsburg” in 1623 after his successor but one, Philipp Christoph von Sötern (1567–1652).

coat of arms

The prince-bishop's coat of arms is squared . It has the family coat of arms of those of Hattstein in the 2nd field ; this is divided diagonally several times in silver and red. In the third field there is the coat of arms of the prince-provost of Weißenburg . Fields 1 and 4 are occupied by the coat of arms of the diocese of Speyer, which shows a silver cross on a blue background.

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Individual evidence

  1. Cf. Caroline Gritschke: 'Via Media': Spiritualist lifeworlds and denominationalization. The southern German Schwenckfeldism in the 16th and 17th centuries . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 420 f. ( Google Books ; limited preview).
  2. Hans Ammerich : The Speyer diocese and its history . tape 3 . Kehl am Rhein 1999, ISBN 3-927095-49-4 , From the Reformation to the end of the old diocese, p. 12 .
predecessor Office successor
Rudolf von and zu Frankenstein first prince-bishop of Speyer and
prince provost of Weißenburg
1560–1581
Eberhard von Dienheim