Waldemar (Bishop)

Waldemar (* 1157 or 1158; † April 1235 or 1236 probably in Loccum Monastery ) was Prince of Denmark , from 1182 to 1208 Bishop of Schleswig and also from 1192/1207 to 1209/10, 1211/12 to 1217 Archbishop of the Archbishopric of Bremen Hamburg .

biography

Waldemar's father, the Danish King Canute V , was murdered on August 9, 1157 by his fellow king Sven . Waldemar, like his half-brother, Saint Niels of Aarhus, had inheritance claims to the Danish throne.

After studying in Paris, he became Bishop of Schleswig in 1178/82 (consecrated in 1187/88). On May 23, 1191 the Guldholm Cistercian monastery , which he founded, was inaugurated.

In 1192 he was elected (counter) archbishop of the diocese of Bremen. In the collegiate war he won large parts of Dithmarschen for the diocese. However, in 1193 he was due to his independent political and military actions by King Canute VI. imprisoned. Despite multiple legal steps by the Roman Curia , he remained imprisoned until 1206.

In 1207 he was again Archbishop of Bremen through the Hohenstaufen party . A minority in the Bremen Cathedral Chapter under Burchard von Stumpenhausen refused to vote and went to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Burchard von Stumpenhausen was elected counter-bishop by the minority of the Bremen Cathedral Chapter and the Hamburg Cathedral Chapter under the influence of the Danish King Waldemar II, who had occupied northern Albingia with Hamburg since 1202. Pope Innocent III In 1207 he finally refused to confirm the election for Hamburg-Bremen and in 1208 also deposed him in Schleswig.

The "Waldemarschen Wirren" lasted from 1207 to 1217. He quarreled with the city ​​of Bremen and the Stedinger farmers and was finally chased away in 1217/18. He also fought for the Danish throne and called himself King of Denmark. He later became a monk in Loccum and from 1220 in Citeaux , where he died in 1236. He was buried on April 28th in the Cistercian Abbey of Loccum .

literature

• Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: On the chronology of Schleswig bishops in: Yearbooks for regional studies of the Duchies of Schleswig , Volume 2, 1859, p. 15 ff ( digitized version )
• Wilhelm von Bippen :  Waldemar, Bishop of Schleswig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 687 f.
• Günter Glaeske: The archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen as imperial princes (937-1258). Hildesheim 1962, pp. 209-216.
• Schmidt, Heinrich: On the history of the Stedinger - studies on peasant freedom, rule and religion on the Lower Weser in the 13th century. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 60/61, Bremen 1982/83, pp. 27-94.
• Gaethke, Hans-Otto: Knud VI. and Waldemar II of Denmark and Northern Albingia 1182–1227. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. Vol. 119 (1994, pp. 21-99, Part I .; Vol. 120 (1995), pp. 7-76, Part II .; Vol. 121/1996), pp. 7-44, Part III.
• Usinger, Rudolf: German-Danish History 1189-1227. EG Mittler and Son, Berlin 1863.

Web links

• Genealogy Middle Ages
• Guldholm Monastery in the Kiel University monastery project

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich	Bishop of Schleswig 1179 - 1192	Nicholas I.

predecessor	Office	successor
Burghard I. von Stumpenhausen	Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen 1192 / 1206 - 1208	Gerhard I of Oldenburg-Wildeshausen