Ulrich von Federspiel

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Ulrich von Federspiel (1657–1728) Prince-Bishop of Chur 1692–1728

Ulrich von Federspiel (born May 7, 1657 in Domat / Ems , † October 11, 1728 in Chur ) was a Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Chur .

family

Servants and servants in the Bündner Land are said to have been the Federspiel. Heinrich von Väderspill is named in a document in Disentis Abbey in 1283. There is no evidence of the family, as the Domat church records were destroyed by fire in 1776. Pankraz Federspiel, Landammann (Mayor) of the rule of Rhäzüns was the father of Johann Federspiel and grandfather of Ulrich Federspiel, whose brother was Luzius Rudolf Federspiel Freiherr zu Lichtenegg in Mals near Meran . His son Johann Baptist Anton von Federspiel was Prince-Bishop of Chur from 1755 to 1777. In the middle of the 19th century, the baronial line died out in the male line.

Life

Ulrich Federspiel, was the son of Johann Federspiel, Landammann (Mayor) of the Rhäzün rule , bailiff of the Benedictine Abbey Pfäfers and his wife Maria de Mont, she was the sister of the Chur bishop Ulrich de Mont . From 1669 to 1674 he studied at the Jesuit College in Feldkirch and from 1678 at the University of Dillingen an der Donau . On March 28, 1682, he was ordained a priest through his uncle and godfather in the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Chur . This also appointed him canon and chancellor.

On April 28, 1692, the cathedral chapter of Chur, chaired by the Apostolic Nutius in Switzerland , Marcello d'Aste , elected Ulrich Federspiel as the new bishop of Chur. Pope Innocent XII. confirmed this election on December 1, 1692, which his opponent, Vicar General Franz Rudolf von Salis-Zizers , tried unsuccessfully to prevent. The episcopal ordination donated to him on March 1, 1693 in the cathedral of Chur, the nuncio, Archbishop Marcello d'Aste. In 1695 he received imperial regalia from Emperor Leopold I.

In 1702 the emperor raised him to the rank of baron . In 1701, Bishop Ulrich von Federspiel sold the estate of Grossenengstingen, also known as Churengstingen, to the Zwiefalten monastery . There was sectarian tension around 1693 in the community of Ilanz ; In a court of arbitration, which the bishop faced in 1701, the Protestants in Ilanz were assured free religious practice. Abbot Adalbert Rauscher incorporated the Premonstratensian monastery of St. Luzi in Chur in 1689 , where only two canons lived in the Roggenburg monastery . Bishop Federspiel did not want to accept this and in November 1712 asked the nuncio to appoint a new abbot for St. Luzi and to appoint canons (canons) from other settlements or to convert the abbey into a diocesan seminary. Since the provincial chapter of the Norbertine clung to the merger of St. Luzi and Roggenburg and chose not new abbot, who declared Holy See incorporation invalid (without papal consent came about) and determined on 16 June 1717 the previous Prior - Administrator Milo Rieger to the abbot of St. Luzi and thus confirmed the independence of the city monastery. In 1719, after a dispute between the clergy and the prince in Liechtenstein , Bishop Ulrich VII imposed the interdict on Vaduz Castle . In 1723 he defended the episcopal jurisdiction against the city of Chur in vain.

In 1728 he offered Emperor Charles VI. the episcopal sovereignty in Val Müstair for sale. He died unexpectedly on October 11, 1728, during the negotiations, and was buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Chur.

Episcopal coat of arms

Coat of arms of Prince-Bishop Ulrich VII von Federspiel

The bishop's coat of arms, divided into four, shows in fields 1 and 4 on a white / silver background a black alpine ibex , placed on the right / left, the coat of arms of the Principality of Chur (Association of Gods ); In fields 2 and 3, the family crest Federspiel is also placed on the right / left. Miter, crosier and sword, the insignia of spiritual and secular power, frame the escutcheon.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman Bühler: Federspiel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ burgenverein-untervaz.ch: texts village history of Untervaz. Upper - Abbots of St. Luzi pp. 261–263
  3. ^ Albert Fischer: Ulrich VII. Von Federspiel 1692–1728.
predecessor Office successor
Ulrich VI. de Mont Bishop of Chur
1692–1728 		Joseph Benedikt von Rost
personal data
SURNAME Federspiel, Ulrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Chur
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1657
PLACE OF BIRTH Domat / Ems
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1728
Place of death Chur