Otto von Dorgelo

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Epitaph of the cathedral provost Otto von Dorgelo in the cathedral of Münster,
inscription: ADMODUM REVERENDO AC PRAENOBILI EQUESTRISQUE ORDINIS VIRO DOMINO OTTONI A DORGELO, HUIUS CATHEDRALIS ECCLESIAE PRAEPOSITO, NEC CANNONICDA ANNABRUGENSIS II. JOANNIS ET PAULI SEPULTO CONSTITUTI EXECUTORES HOC EPITAPHIUM, IPSIUS IUSSU PONI CURARUNT  - “To the venerable and noble knight of the order, Mr. Otto von Dorgelo, provost of this cathedral church as well as senior of the cathedral chapter in Osnabrück, who died on March 22, 1625 and here on April 2 Altar of Saints John and Paul is buried, the authorized testamentary representatives have placed this epitaph at his behest ”.

Otto von Dorgelo (born October 22, 1565 , † March 24, 1625 in Münster ) was provost of the cathedral in the duchy of Münster .

Life

Origin and family

Otto von Dorgelo was born as the son of Otto von Dorgelo zu Brettberg (1525–1584) and Elisabeth von Korff called Schmising (1530–1605). He was the ninth child of the couple, who both came from an ancient Westphalian noble family.

Career and work

During his six-year studies at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome , Otto received the necessary tools for his later work. Active as a deacon and canon in Osnabrück, he received a canon of the cathedral in Münster on June 15, 1590 after the death of Adrian von Wrede . He was on gender Dorgelo, Schmising, Weddesche and Hoberg been sworn . In the election of the Provost of the Cathedral - as successor to Ferdinand von Bayern - on March 21, 1612, only seven of the eighteen voters voted for him. Because of the lack of a majority, the election was invalid. So a day later they agreed - in order to avoid difficulties with the Pope - on a compromise and voted unanimously for Dorgelo. Lothar von Metternich , Elector and Archbishop of Trier, had meanwhile asked the Pope for a commission for his relative Johann Reinhard von Metternich . After the protest of the cathedral chapter Metternich was ready to let this dispute rest on the condition that he would be considered in the next vacancy. Otto was considered a "pillar of Catholicism" during the re-Catholicization of the Lower Monastery of Münster , which was Lutheran from 1543 to 1613 . Besides the epitaph, a stone figure of St. Lambertus (1600) and a painting on the high altar (1622) to Otto von Dorgelo as the founder. He died on March 24, 1625 and a few days later, on April 2, he found his final resting place next to the altar of St. John and St. Paul in the cathedral of Münster .

literature

  • Art. Otto von Dorgelo . In: The Diocese of Münster 4.2. The cathedral monastery St. Paulus zu Münster , edited by Wilhelm Kohl , published by the Max Planck Institute for History. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-11-008508-9 , pp. 62-63 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The diocese of Münster 4.2. The Cathedral Monastery of St. Paulus in Münster , edited by Wilhelm Kohl, published by the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen, publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin / New York, p. 63
personal data
SURNAME Dorgelo, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provost of the Cathedral in the Principality of Münster
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1565
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1625
Place of death Muenster