Minuccio Minucci

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Archbishop Minuccio Minucci

Minuccio Minucci (born January 17, 1551 in Serravalle (Vittorio Veneto) , † March 7, 1604 in Munich ) was a priest , Privy Councilor of the Duke of Munich, diplomat of Bavaria, secretary of the Congregatio Germanica and Archbishop of Zadar .

Life

Minuccio Minucci was born on January 17th, 1551 in Serravalle, Venice. From his family he was sent by his family to his uncle Andrea Minucci, who was Archbishop of Zadar , for two years in 1567 or 1568 . He then enrolled at the University of Padua and received a doctorate in both rights - secular and canon law .

In 1573 a compatriot gave him the position of secretary to the apostolic nuncio for Innsbruck, Salzburg and Munich, whereupon he spent five years in Munich and established relationships with the Wittelsbach family , the Bavarian ruling house.

After the nuncio's death, Minucci became secretary to Cardinal Giovanni Ludovico Madruzzo , Prince-Bishop of Trento . Minucci traveled with him to the Augsburg Reichstag in 1582 .

In 1583 Minucci got involved in a crisis in Cologne : Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg was Archbishop of Cologne, but he had publicly renounced the Catholic Church , proclaimed freedom of belief and married the evangelical Agnes von Mansfeld . Like many other clergymen, Minucci traveled to Cologne and was committed to the Catholic Church, but above all to Ernst von Wittelsbach as the future archbishop. The Pope deposed Truchsess von Waldburg and excommunicated him. Truchsess von Waldburg did not want to give in and so it came to the Cologne War , in which Ernst von Wittelsbach won militarily and became Archbishop of Cologne.

The importance of Minucci for the fact that the office of bishop went to Ernst von Wittelsbach is very controversial; What is certain, however, is that he paid loyalty to the Wittelsbachers with his mission in Cologne and was subsequently appointed to the Privy Council of the Bavarian Duke on June 6, 1584 .

He was ordained a priest in 1585 or 1587. In 1587 he went to Rome to represent Bavaria's interests. In 1591 the Pope appointed him secretary of the Congregatio Germanica , a standing committee of cardinals whose task it was to bring the German states back to Catholicism . His connections with Bavaria and the House of Wittelsbach were viewed with suspicion by the emperor's followers in Rome and made life difficult for him. That Minucci became seriously ill is possibly the result. In 1596 he was appointed Archbishop of Zadar and left the difficult environment.

He died on March 7, 1604 while staying in Munich. His grave is in the Church of St. Michael in Munich.

Act

Minucci had a diplomatic gift and was associated with the Wittelsbach family for decades . In a memorandum, he confessed that Germany was just as important to him as his fatherland.

He had acquired an excellent knowledge of the conditions in Germany and wrote a number of writings and books that were valued and studied in later times as valuable historical sources of his time - especially about the situation of the denominations in Germany. His book about the history of the Uskoks , who were fleeing from the Turks on the Dalmatian coast at the time of Minucci , is particularly well known .

In Germany, Minucci is remembered primarily as a determined opponent of the Protestants. He spared no effort in his attempts to convert or lead German Protestant princes to Catholicism. It was hoped that this would isolate the remaining Protestant princes.

His estate of 52 volumes is in the German Historical Institute in Rome .

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  1. ↑ Inventory history of the DHI
personal data
SURNAME Minucci, Minuccio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Zadar
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1551
PLACE OF BIRTH Serravalle (Vittorio Veneto)
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1604
Place of death Munich