Ortolf of Offenstetten

Ortolf von Offenstetten († November 15, 1392 in Salzburg ) was Bishop of Lavant .

Ortolf von Offenstetten came from a ministerial family from Offenstetten near Kelheim in Lower Bavaria and was a relative - probably a brother - of the Salzburg cathedral provost Eberhard von Offenstetten, who led the Bavarian party in the Salzburg cathedral chapter . Ortolf became canon in Salzburg, studied in Bologna and was cathedral dean from 1356. After the death of Salzburg's Archbishop Ortolf von Weißeneck , he was elected as his successor by the Bavarian party in the cathedral chapter in 1365, but he was unable to prevail against the candidate of the dominant Austrian party, Pilgrim II von Puchheim .

Pope Urban V appointed Ortolf papal chaplain, in 1377 he became official in Salzburg, in 1385 and 1390 general collector of the papal chamber. In 1385 he was elected Provost of Salzburg Cathedral, but the archbishop rejected the election because of a formal error and instead appointed Gregor Schenk von Osterwitz . Ortolf fled to Duke Friedrich von Niederbayern in Burghausen.

Pope Urban VI. awarded him the diocese Lavant in 1387, but Ortolf never took possession of it. In 1389 he returned to Salzburg, was reconciled with the archbishop and worked again as cathedral dean until his death. He was buried in the Salzburg Cathedral.

literature

• Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 .