Raban Truchseß from Wilburgstetten

Bishop Raban in the Pontifical Gundekarianum

Raban Truchseß von Wilburgstetten (* around 1295 at Wilburgstetten Castle near Dinkelsbühl ; † October 18, 1383 in Nuremberg ) was Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt from 1365 to 1383.

origin

Raban Truchseß von Wilburgstetten came from the Franconian noble family of Truchseß von Wilburgstetten . This family was a ministerial family of the Counts of Oettingen and held their court office of truchess . Name-giving place is Wilburgstetten , today a municipality in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach . His mother was born in von Pfahlheim.

Life

He studied law at the University of Bologna in 1315 and in 1318 became canon and curator of Feuchtwangen Abbey . In addition, he became the owner of the wealthy pastorate of Honhardt in 1330 . As Eichstätter canon he can be proven for the first time in 1342; here he became custodian of the cathedral three years later. In 1346 he received the office of carer in Arberg and in 1349 the office of carer in Eichstätt. As Provost of the Cathedral of Eichstätt, he is first recorded for February 14, 1352. On July 18, 1364 he became the caretaker and caretaker of the diocese of Regensburg , since the brother of the Bishop of Eichstätt Berthold Burgrave of Nuremberg , the Regensburg bishop Friedrich Burgrave of Nuremberg, was no longer in a position to administer his diocese because of his health; he gave up this office only in May 1366 and thus after his election to Eichstätter bishop.

Raban had a long, successful career behind him when he was elected Bishop of Eichstätt in September 1365, at the age of 70, to succeed Berthold. On October 1, 1365, he traveled to Avignon , where Pope Urban V awarded him the papal commission on December 18 . Two days later he was ordained a priest and, on December 21, he was ordained bishop . On January 18, 1366, he solemnly entered Eichstätt as the new bishop.

In the era of Charles IV he was involved in the conclusion of various local peace alliances . He earned services in the area of ​​debt repayment of his diocese and in the redemption of pledges. He also increased the ownership of the Eichstätter church. Since the time was restless, he had two castles, the Willibaldsburg of Eichstätt and the episcopal castle of Nassenfels completed. He reinforced the fortifications in several places in the bishopric. He also developed construction activity in Eichstätt: He had the nave of the cathedral torn down and the hall church that still exists today built; To finance it, he founded a cathedral building fund, which he himself thought abundantly. He had the Eichstätt Dominican monastery, which fell victim to a fire in 1366, rebuilt at his own expense.

The bishop had to grapple with the robber baron mischief several times . In 1375 he captured the castle of Ekkelein von Geilingen ( Eppelein von Gailingen ) in Wald (district of) Gunzenhausen and had it razed. He won legal suits against Wilhelm von Seckendorff , Heinrich von Absberg and Berthold Schenk von Geyern for assaults on his property . In order to better protect himself, Raban joined the Franconian Knights' Association of St. Georg at.

On October 13, 1383, after a brief illness, he died at the Nuremberg Reichstag . He was buried in the Willibald Choir of Eichstätter Cathedral , his grave slab has not been preserved.

literature

• Alfred Wendehorst : The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume 1: The series of bishops up to 1535. In: Germania Sacra - New Series 45. Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-018971-1 , pp. 174-179.
• Klaus Kreitmeir: The bishops of Eichstätt. Eichstatt 1992, pp. 56-58.
• Alfred Wendehorst:  Raban Truchseß von Wilburgstetten. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 60 ( digitized version ).