Rudolf von Rudesheim

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Rudolf von Rüdesheim (* 1402 in Rüdesheim am Rhein , † January 17, 1482 in Breslau ) was Bishop of Lavant from 1463 to 1468 and then Prince-Bishop of Breslau .

Origin and career

Rudolf von Rüdesheim: epitaph in the Breslau cathedral

Rudolf came from a middle-class family from Rüdesheim. His parents were Heinrich Hecker and Katharina NN. From 1422 to 1426 he studied in Heidelberg and then for two years in Rome, where he obtained the academic degree of Dr. decretorum acquired. He soon had canons in Mainz , Worms and Freising . After he represented the diocese of Worms at the Council of Basel from 1433 , he became canon in 1434 and in 1446 Worms cathedral dean . In this capacity, he undertook several legation trips: 1435 to Trier , 1437 to Avignon , 1438 to the Teutonic Order and 1439 to Lausanne to see Pope Felix V.

In the same year he became a council judge. As council president of the German nation, he met Nikolaus von Kues and Eneo Silvio de Piccolomini , later Pope Pius II, in 1444. In 1454 he represented the Archbishop of Mainz at the Regensburg Reichstag . In 1458 Pope Pius II appointed him trainee lawyer for German affairs, in 1461 as papal legate and in 1462 as papal nuncio to the Reichstag.

Because of his legal and diplomatic dexterity, Rudolf was also an advisor to King Albrecht II and Emperor Friedrich III. , for which he was significantly involved in the 1463 Treaty of Ödenburg . In the same year the Pope appointed him as arbitrator in the dispute between the Duke of Tyrol and the Bishop of Brixen .

Bishop of Lavant

After the death of Lavant Bishop Theobald Schweinpeck , the Archbishop of Salzburg appointed Rudolf von Rüdesheim as his successor in 1463.

Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw

In his capacity as papal legate for Germany and Bohemia , Rudolf von Rüdesheim organized the resistance of the anti-Hussite forces against Georg von Podebrady from Wroclaw since 1465 . Probably for this reason he was unanimously elected bishop by the cathedral chapter after the death of Bishop Jodok von Rosenberg from Breslau on January 20, 1468 , and was confirmed in this office three months later by the pope.

In 1469 he supported the election of Matthias Corvinus as King of Bohemia on the papal mandate and thereby endangered his position as Breslau bishop and sovereign of the diocese of Neisse-Grottkau in the subsequent Hussite battles . With the peace negotiations of Brno (1477–1478) and Olomouc (1479) the armed conflicts ended.

In 1473 and 1475 Rudolf held diocesan synods , the statutes of which were the first to be published in Breslau by the later Canon Caspar Elyan . In 1476 he decreed that all Breslau canons must in future have an academic degree. He acquired the cities of Freiwaldau and Zuckmantel for his diocese .

Rudolf von Rüdesheim was buried in the Wroclaw Cathedral.

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predecessor Office successor
Jodok von Rosenberg Prince-Bishop of Breslau
1468–1482 		Johann IV. Roth
personal data
SURNAME Rudolf von Rudesheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Lavant; Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH 1402
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudesheim am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1482
Place of death Wroclaw