Otto IV of Hoya

Otto IV. Von Hoya († October 14, 1424 in Beverungen ) was Otto IV. From 1392 to 1424 Bishop of Münster . He was also from 1410 as Otto II. Administrator of the Diocese of Osnabrück .

Early life

He was the son of Johann II von Hoya , formerly canon in Bremen , Münster and Osnabrück . He later married Helena von Sachsen-Lauenburg . He was the owner of the Upper County of Hoya and resided in Nienburg . Otto's brothers included his older brother Erich. His younger brother Johann was later bishop in Paderborn and then in Hildesheim . In his early years Otto was involved in the administration of County Hoya. In 1382 he switched to the church career. Little is known about this, however. In 1256 he became canon in Münster and was also provost here . After the death of Bishop Heidenreich , Otto was elected bishop in Münster by the cathedral chapter in 1392.

Religious life

The bishop was little zealous religiously. He is said not to have visited the St. Paulus Cathedral on any festival day. Otto rarely called synodal assemblies and then they were poorly attended. The synod of 1393 only half-heartedly turned against the neglect of morals among the clergy. After all, the synod of 1413 prohibited the cohabitation of priests. He burdened the monasteries many times. New impulses in monastic life were largely lacking.

Foreign policy

Politically, Otto inherited the conflict with Kleve-Mark . After a few setbacks, peace was concluded with Count Adolf in 1392 . When knights from Kleve, dissatisfied with the peace, invaded the bishopric again, in September of that year the hammer land peace came under the leadership of Cologne's Archbishop Friedrich , which was joined by numerous powerful ecclesiastical and secular princes as well as important cities in the region such as Münster and Soest . In alliance with the Bishop of Osnabrück, Cloppenburg was conquered against the Count of Tecklenburg . Both bishops shared this property until 1396, before the bishop of Osnabrück sold his share to Münster for 1,100 gold guilders. In 1406 Otto IV bought the Ahaus estate . Two years later he forced Count Heinrich von Solms to give up the Ottenstein property .

In 1410 he also became the administrator of the Osnabrück diocese. From 1412 Otto was less military.

Domestic politics

Inside, he expanded and strengthened the country's castles. In the urban area there were no major changes under Otto. A number of pledged properties and offices were redeemed. Otto strictly adhered to his election surrender . All contracts were concluded with the approval of the cathedral chapter. In his time it was stipulated that only noble families or members of knightly families were allowed to be included in the chapter.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the sixteenth century . tape 2 . Leipzig 1858 ( books.google.de ).
• Wilhelm Kohl: The dioceses of the church province Cologne. The Diocese of Munster (=  Germania sacra new series . Volume 37.3 ). 7.1: The diocese. Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-11-016470-1 ( books.google.de ).
• Wilhelm Kohl: The dioceses of the church province Cologne. The Diocese of Munster (=  Germania sacra new series . Volume 37.3 ). 7.3: The diocese. Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-017592-9 ( books.google.de ).
• Wolfgang Bockhorst: Otto von Hoya († 1424) . In: Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann (Hrsg.): Westfälische Lebensbilder 19 (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia ). New series 16. Aschendorff, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-15117-4 , p. 11-30 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Heidenreich Wolf von Lüdinghausen	Bishop of Münster 1392–1424	Heinrich II of Moers
Heinrich I of Schaumburg-Holstein	Bishop of Osnabrück (administrator) 1410–1424	Johann III. from Diepholz