List of the bishops of Merseburg

Coat of arms of the diocese of Merseburg

The list of the bishops of Merseburg presents the bishops of the diocese of Merseburg .

Boso was elected the first Merseburg bishop in 968. From 981 to 1004 the diocese was abolished. Merseburg Cathedral was the religious center . The coat of arms of the diocese shows a black cross on a gold background. In late bishops coats of arms this coat of arms merges with that of the family coat of arms of the respective bishop to form a crossing . The family coats of arms shown in the list are taken from Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605.

As a result of the Reformation , the diocese broke up, the pen area came in 1565 in the Electorate of Saxony and later was part of the short-lived Duchy of Saxe-Merseburg . Saxon elector from the House of Albertine and Sekundogenitur whose sons came from as locum tenens or administrators on. The former diocesan areas can be recognized in the structure of Electoral Saxony into districts and offices . The later successors can be found in the list of electors, dukes and kings of Saxony .

List of the bishops of Merseburg

No.	Surname	Term of office	annotation	presentation	coat of arms
01	Boso	0968- 0970	first bishop of Merseburg
02	Giselher	0971- 0981	Giselher was then Archbishop of Magdeburg (981-1004).
	Abolition of the diocese	0981-1004
03	Wigbert	1004-1009
04th	Thietmar	1009-1019	Walbeck
05	Bruno	1020-1036
06th	Hunold	1036-1050
07th	Alberich	1050-1053
08th	Winther	1053
09	Ezzelin I.	1053-1055
10	Woffo	1057-1062	also Uffo, Onuphrius
11	Wynither	1063	only six weeks, also Günther
12	Werner	1063-1085	Imprisoned by King Henry IV in 1075
	Eppo	1085-?	used by Henry IV
	Werner	? -1093	reinstated, in 1080 Rudolf von Rheinfelden was buried in Merseburg, in 1091 Peterskloster Merseburg was consecrated
13	Albuin	1097-1112	Pegau Monastery consecrated
14th	Gerhard	1112-1120
15th	Arnold	1120-1126
16	Megingoz	1126-1140	also Meingod
17th	Heinrich I.	1140-1140
18th	Ezzelin II	1140-1143	also Eckhelm
19th	Reinhard von Querfurt	1143-1151			Family coat of arms
20th	Johann I.	1151-1170
21st	Eberhard von Seeburg	1171-1201	Count of Seeburg
22nd	Dietrich von Meissen	1201-1215
23	Ekkehard Rabil	1215-1240	also Engelhard
24	Rudolf von Webau	1240-1244
25th	Henry II of goods	1244-1265
26th	Albrecht I of Borna	1265
27	Friedrich I of Torgau	1265-1283
28	Henry III. from Ammendorf	1283-1300			Family coat of arms
29	Heinrich IV. Kindt	1300-1319
30th	Gebhard von Schrapelau	1320-1340	younger brother of Archbishop Burchard III. (Magdeburg)
31	Heinrich V. zu Stolberg	1341-1357	Heinrich V came from the count family of Stolberg .		Family coat of arms
32	Frederick II of Hoym	1357-1382			Family coat of arms
33	Burkhard von Querfurt	1382-1384	Burkhard came from the von Querfurt family .		Family coat of arms
	Andreas Dauba	1382-1385	from the family of Dauba , counter-bishop		Family coat of arms
34	Henry VI. to Stolberg	1384-1393	Henry VI. came from the count family zu Stolberg .		Family coat of arms
35	Heinrich VII Schütz of Orlamünde	1393-1403			Family coat of arms
36	Otto von Honstein	1403-1406	Otto came from the von Hohnstein family of counts .		Family coat of arms
37	Heinrich (VIII.) Zu Stolberg	1406	Heinrich came from the family of counts zu Stolberg , coadjutor , elected by the cathedral chapter		Family coat of arms
38	Walther von Köckritz	1407-1411			Family coat of arms
39	Nikolaus Lubich	1411-1431
40	Johann II. Bose of Ammendorf and Ermlitz	1431-1463		Epitaph in Merseburg Cathedral	Family coat of arms
41	Johann III. from Werder	1464-1466		Epitaph in Merseburg Cathedral
42	Thilo von Trotha	1466-1514		Supraporte in Merseburg Castle	Family coat of arms, depicting brother Hans von Trotha
43	Adolf of Anhalt-Zerbst	1514-1526	Adolf was already employed as a steward from 1507 to 1514.
44	Vincent von Schleinitz	1526-1535	Vinzenz came from the von Schleinitz family .	Tomb in Naumburg Cathedral
45	Sigismund von Lindenau	1535-1544
	August of Saxony	1544-1548	possibly administrator	August von Sachsen , painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder J.	Electoral coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book
	George III from Anhalt	1545-1549	possibly coadjutor	Contemporary woodcut
46	Michael Helding	1549-1561	Last Catholic bishop
	Alexander of Saxony	1561-1565	Diocese administrator	Contemporary painting

Remarks

1. ↑ Offo was initially Eichstätter cathedral treasurer, see z. B. Anonymous von Herrieden
2. ^ Heinrich appoints Eppo against Werner as bishop of Merseburg. Retrieved July 20, 2018 . 

literature

swell

• Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: registers of the German bishops since the year 800 after Chr. Im Selbstverlag, Minden 1854, p. 66 f.

literature

• Max Wilberg: Regent tables. A compilation of the rulers of countries all over the world up to the beginning of the 20th century. Transpress Verlag, Berlin 1987 (unchanged photomechanical reprint of the Frankfurt / Oder 1906 edition), ISBN 3-344-00094-2

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