Peter von Schaumberg

Family crest of Schaumberg after Scheibler Wappenbuch

Peter von Schaumberg (born February 22, 1388 at the moated Mitwitz castle ; † April 12, 1469 at Dillingen Castle ) was bishop of Augsburg from 1424 until his death .

biography

origin

Peter von Schaumberg came from the Thuringian-Franconian noble family von Schaumberg . The starting point of the family is the ancestral castle Schaumburg in southern Thuringia on the border with Bavaria .

Career

After a schismatic election in 1423, Pope Martin V prevailed in 1424 with Peter von Schaumberg, canon of Würzburg and Bamberg . He is considered a peaceful sovereign who increased the prosperity of the diocese. He held two synods and issued numerous regulations for clergy and monasteries. His goals were to combat the decline in morals and the increasing secularization. He ensured that clergymen were ordained a priest only if they passed an examination on scientific content and at least the Summa rudium or Summa Mag. Joan. de Aurach ruled. Reforms were implemented in the Sankt Ulrich monastery under Abbot Melchior von Stamheim (1458–1474). He is said to have tackled grievances in the diocese less energetically towards the knight nobility.

The road between Augsburg and Füssen , past the Osteraufkirche , was expanded and paved by him. On March 13, 1446 he consecrated Johann III. von Eych to the bishop of Eichstätt .

Under Pope Martin V he was appointed treasurer , Eugene IV elevated him to cardinal , he apparently only received the cardinal's hat from Pope Nicholas V on his trip to Rome in 1450. Under Pope Paul II , he was a legate for the German area.

With increasing age, Pope Pius II placed his future successor Johann von Werdenberg at his side as coadjutor in 1463 . His epitaph (here also a cenotaph ) can be seen to this day in the east choir of Augsburg Cathedral , the deceased bishop is depicted as a skeleton on it.

literature

• Georg Kreuzer:  Peter von Schaumberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 218 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Anton Uhl: Peter von Schaumberg, Cardinal and Bishop of Augsburg 1424-1469. A contribution to the history of the Reich, Swabia and Augsburg in the 15th century. Speyer 1940 (also Munich, Phil. Diss., 1940), DNB 571320562 .
• Wilhelm Vogt:  Peter von Schaumberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 462-464.
• Wolfgang Stammler, Karl Langosch , Kurt Ruth: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . Volume 5. De Gruyter, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-11-009909-8 , p. 1079 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

• Biographical data and picture of his epitaph
• Schaumberg, Peter von. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed December 4, 2016.
• Entry on Peter von Schaumberg on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved December 4, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wasserschloss ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the market town of Mitwitz, accessed on December 4, 2016 
2. ^ The Augsburg Bishops , accessed December 4, 2016

predecessor	Office	successor
Anselm von Nenningen	Bishop of Augsburg 1424–1469	Johann II of Werdenberg