Otto I of Lobdeburg

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Otto von Lobdeburg († December 5, 1223 ) was Otto I Bishop of Würzburg from 1207 until his death .

Otto von Lobdeburg in the family context

Otto came from the noble family of the Lobdeburger with seat on the Lobdeburg in Jena - Lobeda , Thuringia . With the relative Konrad I von Querfurt , bishop from 1198 to 1202, and his nephew Hermann I von Lobdeburg , bishop in Würzburg from 1225 to 1254, the Lobdeburgers, descendants of the lords of Auhausen an der Wörnitz in the Nördlinger Ries, played a decisive role in the development of the Diocese of Würzburg in the first half of the 13th century.

His coat of arms shows a right diagonal bar , the main coat of arms of the lords of Auhausen an der Wörnitz in the Nördlinger Ries, on the helmet a peacock . Later, the individual branches and twigs of the Lobdeburgers added different coats of arms.

Otto as bishop

The merits of Bishop Otto I for the diocese of Würzburg lay in his involvement in the changing imperial politics. His representative appearance as imperial prince and prince-bishop led to a deficit in the financial budget of the diocese and to the final loss of the lordship of Lambach and its income to the Duke of Austria.

Otto IV. And Pope Innocent III. Shaking hands (from Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 19–23, around 1450)

Since the beginning of his tenure in 1207 Otto I. von Lobdeburg was commissioned by Pope Innocent III. on the way in church political matters. As his envoy to the imperial court, he was in charge of lodging a complaint against the bishop in Bremen Waldemar . In 1209 it was his job to ensure that Eckbert von Andechs-Meranien was reinstated as bishop in the Archdiocese of Bamberg , since Eckbert was said to be complicit in the murder of Philip of Swabia .

On May 24, 1209, the candidate for the imperial crown Otto IV. , Moved into the festively decorated Würzburg, where a large gathering of imperial princes was held, which included the preparations for the journey to Rome and the coronation as emperor. In 1210, however, there was a dispute between the emperor and the pope. The Staufer Friedrich II was the antagonist . Like the Archbishop of Cologne , Otto I, Bishop of Würzburg, remained on the side of Emperor Otto IV. This caused serious unrest in Cologne and Würzburg . Wuerzburg brought ministerials the Ravensburger the canon Henry III. von Ravensburg as a candidate against the bishop into play. The Ravensburger had already murdered Konrad von Querfurt without losing any influence on church politics. Now they took a clear stand against the Lobdeburgers again. Although Heinrich von Ravensburg was encouraged by the diocese of Mainz , Otto I von Lobdeburg, who had meanwhile been expelled from Würzburg, held his own and defeated the Ravensburger.

In 1212, Bishop Otto I von Lobdeburg changed the fronts from the Guelphs to the Hohenstaufen. He now supported the anti-king Friedrich II (HRR) and moved for him in the wake of an army group in 1213 and 1217 to Thuringia against Otto IV. With that he had won the trust of Friedrich II and became the religious supervisor of his son Heinrich ( VII.) (HRR) during his stay in Italy.

Otto I founded the Franciscan monastery in Würzburg in 1221 . It was the first monastery of the Franciscan Minorites north of the Alps. In addition, the first branches of the Teutonic Order emerged in the Diocese of Würzburg ; these included 1213 clay, 1219 Bad Mergentheim and Würzburg.

It is not recorded where he was buried; his right arm was brought to the Auhausen Monastery , a foundation of the Lords of Auhausen in Nördlinger Ries , the ancestral family of the von Lobdeburg family .

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predecessor Office successor
Heinrich IV of Heßberg Bishop of Würzburg
1207–1223 		Dietrich von Homburg
personal data
SURNAME Otto I of Lobdeburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Würzburg
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1223