Meinhard von Neuhaus (Bishop)

Meinhard von Neuhaus (also Meinhard von Hradec ; Czech Menhart z Hradce , Italian Mainardo di Neuhaus ; * around 1329, † after 1377) was a Prague canon and 1349-1360 Bishop of Trento .

Life

Meinhard came from the Witigon family branch of the Lords of Neuhaus . His parents were Ulrich III. von Neuhaus and Margarete von Kärnten. They determined Meinhard for the spiritual profession, which is why he became a canon in Prague at a young age. After the father's death in 1349, his possessions were divided between Meinhard's brothers Heinrich , Ulrich and Herrmann.

Meinhard's father Ulrich maintained good relations with the Bohemian King John of Luxembourg and his son Charles IV. As he persecuted the "heretical" Waldensians on his territory , he received in 1340 from Pope Benedict XII. an indulgence privilege for those of his subjects who supported him in suppressing the Waldensians. After Ulrich's death in 1349, King Charles IV campaigned for the rights of Meinhard and his brothers.

As early as January 1349, Charles IV obtained Meinhard from Pope Clemens VI for the then presumably 20-year-old . the promise of Meinhard's entitlement to a vacant church office. Ten months later, on November 4, 1349, Pope Meinhard granted the diocese of Trento. At the same time, the cathedral chapter, the clergy, the faithful and the feudal people of the diocese as well as the Patriarch of Aquileja were requested by the Pope to welcome Meinhard into his diocese. Meinhard, for his part, undertook to pay the servitia in February 1350 .

Since Charles IV renounced his Tyrolean claims to Emperor Ludwig in 1350 and also enfeoffed him with the county and the bishopric of Trient , Meinhard's inauguration was delayed because Emperor Ludwig was not prepared to return the temporalities to him. Although in 1354 Pope Innocent VI. turned to Charles IV and asked him to influence Emperor Ludwig, a solution could not be found. In the documents that have survived from the 1350s Meinhard is referred to as the “chosen bishop”. In 1353 he accompanied Charles IV to Constance and in 1355 through southern Germany. However, he was not present at his imperial coronation in Rome, which also took place in 1355.

Meinhard probably stayed in his Bohemian homeland, where he campaigned for the veneration of Mary. In 1356 the Carthusian Konrad von Hainburg published the Praise of Mary, known as "Laus Mariae", at Meinhard's request. Together with his brother Ulrich Meinhard is documented as patron of the churches of Slavonice , Stranné, Žirov and Číměř for 1354 . In 1358, both of them acquired goods in Velešín , Hříšice and Strachoňovice from Martin von Mutice ( Mareš z Mutic ) , which were entered in the Moravian land table in Brno . Around this time they also built Rosenstein Castle , the first burgrave of which was Martin von Mutice.

Only after the Pope made the absolution of Emperor Ludwig dependent on the reimbursement of the goods of the Bishop of Trent around 1359 , a solution emerged. As early as 1358, the bishopric was administered by the (Brixen?) Canon Heinrich von Bopfingen on behalf of Emperor Ludwig. In April 1359 the Salzburg Archbishop Ortolf von Weißeneck , the Gurk Bishop Paul von Jägerndorf and the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Lambrecht were appointed clerical and secular administrators of the diocese of Trento. The Austrian dukes Albrecht II. And his son Rudolf IV. Vouched for the reparation or the return of the goods. In the actual restitution in August 1359, Meinhard was no longer mentioned. While he was still in 1360 as a sub-deacon was called, he lacked the episcopal ordination . With a declaration of renunciation, which arrived in Avignon in August 1360 , he formally gave up his diocese. In some sources, e.g. B. here and here, however, it is stated that he held the office of bishop until 1362. Nothing is known about his further work. According to the genealogy web link, he did not die until after 1377.

literature

• Severino Varesci: Meinhard, Freiherr von Neuhaus (* around 1329), 1349–1360 Elect of Trient . In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198-1448 . ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , p. 782.

Web links

• genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zdeňka Hledíková : Arnošt z Pardubic , Vyšehrad 2008, ISBN 978-80-7021-911-9 , p. 246
2. ↑ http://www.bildindex.de/obj20369349.html#%7Chome
3. ↑ Aldo Gorfer: Trento Città del Concilio , Arca 2003, limited preview
4. ^ Adriano Cappelli: Cronologia, cronografia e calendario perpetuo , Milan 1998, limited preview

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann III. from Pistoia	Bishop of Trento 1349–1360	Albrecht V of Ortenburg