Moritz von Oldenburg (Archbishop)

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Seal of the Bremen cathedral chapter in the 14th century

Moritz von Oldenburg , occasionally also as Moritz III. von Oldenburg designated, († 1368 in Coldewärf near Blexen ) was a member of the Oldenburg Count House , who went down in history as a contender for the Bremen bishopric in the Bremen archbishop's feud.

His parents were Johann II , Count of Oldenburg , and his first wife Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

Mentioned as the Bremen Canon from 1337, he supported his uncle, the sick Archbishop Otto I of Bremen, in the government as cathedral dean . After his death (probably in January 1348) the cathedral chapter elected him as his successor, but denied the Hamburg thesaurus Albert von Merleberg participation in the vote.

Since Pope Clement VI. However, not to him, but to Gottfried von Arnsberg , the previous Bishop of Osnabrück, who granted the pallium , the aforementioned power struggle ensued, which was fought by war. After a hapless course for Moritz, he had to renounce the dignity of archbishop in the peace signed on September 12, 1350, but remained coadjutor of the archbishopric and thus exercised the actual power of government.

From 1351 a conflict developed between the Hanseatic city of Bremen and the Counts of Hoya , as Bremen - whose population had fallen considerably due to the plague - allowed immigration from the surrounding area and granted former serfs freedom of the Bremen citizenship after a year. In 1356, the Count of Hoya claimed the extradition of some of his own people who had moved - now free citizens - because they were missing in his agricultural areas, which had also been weakened by the plague. Bremen did not comply with Hoya's extradition request, which triggered the Hoya feud . Moritz, as steward of the Archbishopric, faced not only the county Hoya, but also allied with Hoya, just to the Duke of Jülich collected Wilhelm I. On June 20, 1358 lost a battle Bremen at the Aller . 150 citizens, including eight out of twelve councilors, were taken prisoner. The high trigger sums that Bremen had to pay to Hoya led to Bremen's bankruptcy in 1359.

After Gottfried retired from office in 1359 or 1360, at the instigation of Count Gerhard von Hoya, the Welfe Albert II , son of Duke Magnus von Braunschweig , became Archbishop of Bremen. Moritz was not up to Albert and his Braunschweig support, renounced his function as administrator and from then on contented himself with the Stiftsburg Hagen .

In 1368 Moritz took part in a campaign, this time as an ally of the city of Bremen and the Count of Oldenburg, against the Butjadinger Frisians . The campaign ended with the catastrophic defeat at Coldewärf on July 20, 1368. In addition to ten Bremen councilors, Moritz was one of four members of the Oldenburg Count's House who were slain by the Frisians in this battle.

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SURNAME Moritz von Oldenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moritz III. from Oldenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION unconfirmed archbishop of Bremen, son of Johann II of Oldenburg
DATE OF BIRTH before 1313
DATE OF DEATH 1368
Place of death Coldewärf at Blexen