Otto IV von Sonnenberg
Otto, Truchsess von Waldburg, Count von Sonnenberg (* before 1452; † March 21, 1491 in Konstanz ) was Otto IV. Bishop of Konstanz from 1474 (1481) to 1491 .
family
Otto von Sonnenberg came from the Welfisch - Hohenstaufen ministerial family of the Truchsessen von Waldburg . The family seat was the Waldburg .
He was the son of the marriage of Eberhard I., zu Scheer (1438), zu Friedberg (1452), Lord of the County of Sonnenberg (1455), Vogt zu Feldkirch (1450), who died on September 22, 1479, and his on On December 21, 1432 Mrs. Kunigunde of Montfort-Tettnang († after 1463), the daughter of Wilhelm IV. Count of Montfort-Tettnang and Countess of Kunigunde of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg-Bludenz, married .
Life
Otto von Sonnenberg became a canon in Lindau in 1466 . In 1472 he was in the service of Count Eberhard V. von Württemberg-Urach . In 1474 he was canon in Constance.
Constance diocese dispute
Because of the poor health of the Constance Bishop Hermann III. von Breitenlandenberg (1466–1474) appointed Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484) at the beginning of September 1474 initially Ludwig von Freiberg as coadjutor of Bishop Hermann. Ludwig von Freiberg was to succeed Hermann in the episcopate in the event of Hermann's death. Hermann died shortly afterwards on September 18, 1474 and the Konstanz cathedral chapter , which had no knowledge of the election of the Pope, elected Otto von Sonnenberg by a majority on September 30, 1474 as successor to the late Bishop Hermann of Constance. This resulted in the Constance diocese dispute between the papal candidate and the candidate of the Constance cathedral chapter, also supported by Emperor Friedrich III. The diocese dispute also ruined the bishopric's weak finances.
Episcopate
On November 10, 1480 he was confirmed by Pope Sixtus IV. On March 31, 1481 Otto was ordained Bishop of Constance.
Bishop Otto von Sonnenberg managed to enforce new statutes for the Constance diocese through his restrictive approach . These were even used as models in the Diocese of Chur .
In 1487, Bishop Otto signed a contract between the Bishopric of Konstanz and the County of Heiligenberg-Werdenberg on the high, forest and low jurisdiction of Markdorf . After that, the area around the town of Markdorf, as well as the suburbs, the village, the floodplains, Möggenweiler, Bergheim and individual farms on the Gehrenberg were supposed to be subject to episcopal and municipal jurisdiction and the Counts of Heiligenberg-Werdenberg were to be withdrawn.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the House of Waldburg-Sonnenberg belongs to the diocese coat of arms . The Waldburg family descends from the Hohenstaufer family, hence the three striding, black Staufer lions in gold; in the Sonneberg coat of arms in blue a golden sun over a silver three-mountain.
The grave inscription in Konstanz Minster shows the Sonnergian and Montfort coats of arms, the following Latin inscription: “Hoc. in. carcophago. condvntvr. ossa. Ottonis. antistes. qui. qvoudam. constautiensis. fuit. ex. Svoneberg nato. traxervnt. sva. fila. sorores. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogy of the Waldburg family . Genealogy.euweb.cz. January 16, 2009. Retrieved April 19, 2011.
- ↑ "Display for customers of the German prehistoric times: Organ of the Germanisches Museum", Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg , 1854, page 43
Web links
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Hermann III. from Breitenlandenberg |
Bishop of Constance 1474 / 1481–1491 |
Thomas Berlower |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Otto IV von Sonnenberg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otto Truchsess von Waldburg Count von Sonnenberg; Otto IV. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Constance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1452 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1491 |
| Place of death | Constancy |