Wikbold Dobilstein

Wikbold Dobilstein (also Dobbelstein ; Dobylstein * 26. January 1312 , † 21st July 1398 /1400 Cologne ) was 1363-1381 / 85 Bishop of Kulm .

Life

Wikbold Dobilstein came from a knightly family in the Duchy of Limburg . His parents were Tithmar / Diethmar Dobilstein and his wife Margarethe. Nothing is known about Wikbold's youth and education. He came to Prussia as the chaplain of Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode , where he was first recorded in January 1352. In October d. In J. he became Canon of Pomesania . At the instigation of the Grand Master, on March 24, 1363, Pope Urban V appointed him the successor to Bishop Johann Schadland in Kulm , who had previously been transferred to Hildesheim . A few months later, Wikbold received the episcopal ordination in Avignon and for the first time on November 1, 1363 he was recorded as bishop in Kulm. When the Teutonic Order signed a treaty with the Archbishop of Riga Fromhold von Vifhusen in Danzig in May 1366 , Wikbold and the other Prussian bishops were also present there.

Like his predecessors, Wikbold promoted the settlement of the Löbauer Land. He confirmed the privileges granted to the settlers. A dispute he had with the town of Kulmsee about the episcopal property from the beginning of 1371 onwards was settled with the mediation of the Holy See through arbitrators who were elected in Briesen in 1374 . In 1373 he stayed at the Vogelsang farm near Koblenz. He donated 140 marks to the Cistercian monastery of Pelplin and 200 marks to the Marienkapelle in the cathedral of Kulmsee for the employment of a chaplain. In 1375 Wikbold was attacked by the Kulmian knight Hans von Kruschin in Kulmsee and kidnapped to Dobrin . Only after Wikbold assured the kidnapper of impunity was he released. Presumably for this reason, Wikbold then transferred the administration of his diocese to the cathedral chapter and went to Cologne. In 1379 he consecrated the monastery church and two altars of the Cistercian monastery Altenberg , which he supported with donations.

With papal approval, Wikbold resigned to the bishopric of Kulm between 1381 and 1385. After that he stayed mainly in Cologne, where he lived in the Altenberger Hof, a courtyard of the Altenberg Abbey . With his will drawn up in 1396 he decreed u. a. 300 guilders for the cathedral in Kulmsee and 200 guilders for the Cistercian monastery Pelplin.

Wikbold Dobilstein died on July 21, 1398 or 1400 in Cologne. His body was buried in Altenberg Cathedral . His tomb was lost after the secularization of the monastery in 1803.

literature

• Anastazy Nadolny: Wikbold Dobilstein (Dobbelstein) (OT) (1312-1398 / 1400). In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , p. 306.

Web links

• Dobbelstein, Wikbold . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ July 3, 1398: Hans Mosler: Die Cistercienserabtei Altenberg. (= Germania Sacra; New Series 2. ) Berlin 1965, p. 154.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann I. Schadland	Bishop of Kulm 1363–1381 / 85	Reinhard von Sayn