Milo from Weiler

Milo von Weiler († around 1314 ) was a Catholic priest , Benedictine and abbot of the St. Januarius monastery in Murrhardt.

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origin

Family coat of arms of those of Weiler

Milo came from the Swabian noble family of the Lords of Weiler , who were wealthy in today's district of Obersulm .

First abbatiate and renunciation

After the death of his predecessor Dietrich von Hohenstein , Milo von Weiler was elected as the new abbot by the monastic community on November 18, 1289.

Relations between the new abbot and the Vogt of the Murrhardt Monastery, Count Albrecht I von Löwenstein , were difficult from the start. The award of the city right at Murrhardt a year earlier, Albrecht had created I. own base in the immediate vicinity of the monastery - which in the aftermath of conflict with the Conventual led that, not entirely without reason, an influence of the house Lowenstein on Feared independence of the monastery. However, a direct confrontation with the monastic patron was practically impossible for the abbey, as Albrecht I, as the illegitimate son of King Rudolf von Habsburg , knew that the Habsburg power and the political influence of his father were behind him.

With King Rudolf's death on July 15, 1291, the situation suddenly changed in favor of the monastic position; Abbot Milo used the first court day of the new King Adolf von Nassau in nearby Esslingen am Neckar to strengthen the abbey's position vis-à-vis the Count and Vogt through the royal confirmation of the monastic privileges. Adolf von Nassau not only confirmed the rights of the monastic community - the relationship with Abbot Milo must have been so good that the king also visited the monastery and town of Murrhardt with large followers on his march to Schwäbisch Hall in 1293 . Count Albrecht I von Löwenstein must have felt the king's visit to Murrhardt as an affront of the monastery to his person; From 1294 the bailiff went with all the propaganda means against the abbey before and did not shrink from attacks against monastic own people back. The harshness with which Count Albrecht led the dispute with the Murrhardt Monastery must have made a noticeable impression on the monks - around 1299 there must have been disputes within the monastery, during which Milo von Weiler renounced his abbot office and resigned. In the following years Milo lived as a simple monk and conventual in Murrhardt Abbey.

Second abbatiat and renewed confirmation of the founding privileges

With the assumption of office of his successor, a Heinrich only sparsely mentioned in documents, the relationship between the monastery and the Löwenstein family developed in a very friendly manner. The decisive factor for the rapprochement with Count Albrecht was probably the accession to the throne of his half-brother, King Albrecht of Habsburg, and the subsequent change in the political situation of the empire. The reconciliation between the monastery and the Vogt remained permanent in any case - Albrecht I von Löwenstein chose the monastery church as the burial place of his family and after his death on June 11, 1304, he was buried in the east choir of the church in front of the St.

After the murder of Albrecht von Habsburg in 1308, the balance of power within the Murrhardt monastery convent changed again; the demise of Abbot Konrad made it necessary to elect a new abbot and Milo von Weiler managed to get the majority of the votes this time as well. Presumably at the end of 1308, Milo took up the post of abbot in the Murrhardt Monastery for the second time - and with his inauguration the efforts to break away from the influence of the Löwenstein family and to restore the monastic independence of the abbey revived. Soon after taking over the management of the monastery again, Milo von Weiler turned to King Henry VII of Luxembourg and asked for confirmation of all the privileges that had accrued to the monastery since its foundation. With the confirmation of the privileges by the court of King Henry VII, the documentary trace of Milo von Weiler is lost in history - it is not known whether he was forced to resign again or whether he was able to exercise his office until his death around 1314. With his successor as head of the Murrhardt Monastery, Abbot Albrecht , the Löwenstein family finally managed to bring the abbey under its complete control.

literature

• Gerhard Fritz: City and monastery Murrhardt in the late Middle Ages and in the Reformation period (= research from Württemberg-Franconia. Vol. 34). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-7634-7 , p. 327.

predecessor	Office	successor
Dietrich von Hohenstein	Abbot of Murrhardt 1289–1295 (1st term of office)	Henry II

predecessor	Office	successor
Konrad	Abbot of Murrhardt 1309-1314 (2nd term of office)	Albrecht II (Murrhardt)