Werner von Falkenstein

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Werner von Falkenstein (* around 1355 probably at Falkenstein Castle ; † October 4, 1418 at Peterseck Castle [Thurnberg, Deuertburg] via Wellmich / Sankt Goarshausen ) was from 1388 to 1418 as Werner III. Archbishop and Elector of Trier . He was the great-nephew of his predecessor Kuno II von Falkenstein (1362-1388).

Life

Tomb of Werner von Falkenstein in the Basilica of St. Kastor in Koblenz

His father was Philip VI. von Falkenstein (before 1332–1374), the mother Agnes von Falkenstein († 1383). He initially served as Archdeacon of Trier and was appointed provost of St. Florin zu Koblenz on June 16, 1384 , and later provost of St. Paulin zu Trier . After the resignation of Archbishop Kuno on January 6, 1388, he became coadjutor and on April 3 of Pope Urban VI. Provided as archbishop . To the September 21, 1388 was made its consecration to the priest and bishop .

He successfully rejected the Falkensteiner's claims to the money Kuno had accumulated in Trier and thus financed his numerous feuds , which he had with the Lords of Schleiden , von Waldeck , von Ehrenberg , the Counts von Katzenelnbogen at Rheinfels Castle and the cities Oberwesel and St. Goar led. The war with Oberwesel ( Weseler War or Weseler Feud ) went back to the pledge of the imperial city, which was endowed with numerous rights and privileges, by King Henry VII in 1309 and finally in 1312 to his brother, Archbishop Baldwin of Trier of Luxembourg . In 1389 Werner III. von Falkenstein as sovereign and local ruler a year-long siege of the city, in which cannons were also used. Since the gentlemen of the Schönburg moved to the Trier side, Wesel stood alone in the fight to maintain his rights. A mutual arrangement ended the war, but the imperial city status was not restored.

The country was devastated by the feuds, the state went bankrupt, and Werner III. was confronted with a strong opposition in the Trier cathedral chapter , which in 1399 Pope Boniface IX. asked to put a coadjutor at the side of the sick archbishop, but this did not happen.

In 1402 Werner von Falkenstein had the Wernerseck Castle named after him built in the Pellenz as a border fortress against the Archbishop of Cologne . In Mayen he moved on 24 July 1405, the hitherto held to Marie holidays three years markets on other dates and the now traditional and known over the centuries Lukasmarkt on Sunday after Luke (October 18).

Archbishop Werner did not play a decisive role in the councils of Pisa (1409) and Constance ; he left the burden of the tasks to his future successor as archbishop, the provost Otto von Ziegenhain . He died during an attack on St. Goar and was buried in the choir of the St. Kastor church in Koblenz .

literature

  • Erich Düsterwald: Small history of the archbishops and electors of Trier. St. Augustin 1980, pp. 95-98
  • Johann Leonardy: History of the Trier Land and People. 2nd edition, Trier 1877, pp. 548-553
  • Anette Löffler: The Lords and Counts of Falkenstein (Taunus): Studies on territorial and property history, on imperial political position and on the genealogy of a leading ministerial family; 1255-1418. 2 volumes, Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt and Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-88443-188-9
  • Ferdinand Pauly : From the history of the Diocese of Trier. Volume II: The Bishops up to the End of the Middle Ages. Trier 1969, pp. 119-121
  • Edgar Ruthe: Werner III. von Falkenstein, Elector and Archbishop of Trier (1388–1418) and the Empire (until Ruprecht's death) . Hall 1911
  • Johann Hugo Wyttenbach, Michael Franz Joseph Müller (eds.): Gesta Trevirorum. Volume II, Trier 1838, pp. 289-311
  • Emil Zenz (ed.): The deeds of the Trier. Gesta Treverorum. Volume VI, Trier 1962, pp. 14-18
  • Martin Persch :  Werner von Falkenstein. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 836-837.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Gottfried Kentenich :  Werner von Falkenstein . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, p. 47 f.
  • Johann Georg Lehmann: Documented history of the lords and counts of Falkenstein at the Donnersberge in the Palatinate . In: Mittheilungen des Historisches Verein der Pfalz , Vol. 3, Speyer 1872, pp. 1–145 [1]
  • Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenzer Köpfe , 2nd edition, November 2005, publishing house for advertising papers, Falkenstein, Werner von , pp. 156–157.

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predecessor Office successor
Kuno II of Falkenstein Archbishop Elector of Trier
1388-1418 		Otto von Ziegenhain
personal data
SURNAME Falkenstein, Werner von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner von Trier; Werner III. (Name as archbishop)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Trier
DATE OF BIRTH around 1355
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Falkenstein Castle
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1418
Place of death Peterseck Castle (Düstenburg)