Moritz von Wrangel

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Moritz von Wrangel (lat. Mauritius ) was bishop of Reval from 1558 to 1560 .

Life

The first information about Moritz von Wrangel, who belonged to the Baltic aristocratic family of the von Wrangel family , comes from the year 1546. At that time, as dean in Dorpat , he wrote a letter to a nobleman that was preserved in the Stockholm Imperial Archives .

On November 9, 1549, he was appointed dean of the cathedral chapter by Bishop Jobst von der Recke , and three days later, on November 12, 1549, he was appointed provost of the cathedral . He held this office until September 14, 1557. On this day he received his appointment as coadjutor of the Reval monastery .

In March 1558 he was appointed Bishop of Reval, but did not receive papal confirmation . As a result, he did not receive episcopal ordination . In a letter that Peter Iwanewitz Suski brought him on July 21st of that year, he was asked to submit to the Russian Emperor, to whom the dioceses of Dorpat and Reval had fallen. Dorpat had already surrendered on July 18th. In the letter he was told unequivocally that the city of Reval would be attacked by his troops if he did not bow to Grand Duke Johann Wassiljewitz .

On June 29, 1560 Moritz von Wrangel sold the Diocese of Reval to Duke Magnus von Holstein . This led to the (temporary) end of Catholicism in Estonia , which began with the Russo-Livonian War in 1558.

literature

  • Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD. Geb .. Minden 1854, S. 90 .
  • Georges Wrangell: Moritz Wrangel, Bishop of Reval 1558–1560. in: The German Herald. Zeitschrift für Wappen-, Siegel- und Familienkunde, vol. 63, (1932) N. 9/10, pp. 55–56; N. 11/12, p. 69.

Individual evidence

  1. 5. Bishops Catholic bishops of Estonia on boehlau-verlag.com, accessed on August 25, 2014. (PDF, pp. VII / VIII.)
  2. ^ Johann Renner: Johann Renner's Livländische Historien. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1876, OCLC 163063196 , p. 203.
  3. ^ Society for the history and archeology of the Russian Baltic Sea provinces (ed.): Mittheilungen from the area of ​​history Liv., Ehst and Kurland's. Volume 2, OCLC 460464517 , p. 127.
  4. Henricus Lettus: The Liefländische Chronik Andrer Theil. From Liefland under his masters, who explain the ancient history of the order and the neighboring peoples. JJ Gebauer, Halle (Saale) 1753, OCLC 13242492 , p. 252.