Ruprecht von Berg

Grave slab in Paderborn Cathedral

Ruprecht von Berg (* around 1365; † July 29, 1394 in Padberg , Marsberg ) was Ruprecht Elekt - Prince-Bishop of Passau (1387 / 88-1393) and Paderborn (1390-1394).

Life

Ruprecht was the first son of Duke Wilhelm I von Berg and Anna , daughter of Elector Ruprecht II von der Pfalz and sister of the German King Ruprecht .

In order to prepare him for high church offices, his father sent him to Rome for training, where he received from Pope Urban VI. received the title of Apostolic Notary .

At the beginning of the 1380s he applied for the bishopric of Münster , but failed at the instigation of the Archbishop of Cologne , Friedrich von Saar Werden . In 1387 he tried it in Passau , supported by King Wenzel . Duke Albrecht III. of Austria held against it with Hermann Digni , later Georg von Hohenlohe , of which the latter finally approved in 1393 by Pope Boniface IX. received so that Ruprecht gave up.

In 1390, however, his candidacy in the diocese of Paderborn had been successful, on which he concentrated after his withdrawal from Passau. Here he tried to fight the knight leagues , z. B. the rascals who were feuding with the diocese . Ruprecht died of the plague during the siege of the castle of the Lords of Padberg . He is buried in Paderborn Cathedral in front of the cross altar in the central nave. The text on the grave slab reads:

Annis Mille Christi quadringentisque minus sex

De mundo tristi festo Petri Pauli rapuit nex

Rupertum, electum huius ecclesie, bene rectum,

De Montis vectum, Bavarorum fonte refectum.

Cui tu Messia, rogo, confer gaudia dya.

[In the year a thousand, four of the hundred, and less than six

After Christ at Peter-Paul feasts of death out of necessity

The world took away the chosen one, the upright Rupert,

Family of those von Berg and the noble of Bavaria.

I ask, Messiah, give him heavenly joys!]

Ruprecht was never ordained a bishop because he had not yet reached the required age.

literature

• Franz-Josef Jakobi:  Ruprecht von Berg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 287 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hans Jürgen Brandt, Karl Hengst: The bishops and archbishops of Paderborn. Verlag Bonifatius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1984, ISBN 3-87088-381-2 , pp. 156-160
• For the grave slab of Rupert von Berg s. Götz J. Pfeiffer, Painting on the Lower Rhine and in Westphalia around 1400. The Master of the Berswordt Retable and the Style Change of Time (= Studies in International Architecture and Art History, 73), Petersberg (Imhof-Verlag), 2009, ISBN 3 -86568-194-8 , pp. 123-129.

predecessor	Office	successor
Simon II of Sternberg	Prince-Bishop of Paderborn 1390–1394	Johann I of Hoya