William III. by Enckenvoirt

Willem van Enckevoirt

Coat of arms of the von Enckevoirts around 1530

William III. von Enckenvoirt (* 1464 in Mierlo ; † July 19, 1534 in Rome ) was cardinal and bishop of Tortosa (1523–34) and Utrecht (1529–34); he came from the old Brabant noble and countess noble family of those von Enckevort (in different historical spellings).

Life

Wilhelm was a close friend and confidante of Pope Hadrian VI. who appointed him on his date in office , and shortly before his death Bishop of Tortosa and Cardinal Priest of Ss.Giovanni e Paolo (1523–1534) and also as his executor. Of his approximately 100 beneficiaries, almost a third were within the pontificate of Hadrian VI. awarded; In addition to the solidarity of the country, it is certainly also an expression of the Pope's internal church isolation.

Tomb

Enckenvoirt's gratitude and solidarity after Hadrian's death testifies to the erection of a magnificent tomb for his patron in the German national church Santa Maria dell'Anima 1523–1533 by Baldassare Peruzzi and the location of his own grave monument (by Giovanni Mangoni) in the niche across from.

literature

• NC Royaarts: Cardinaal Willem van Enckenvoirt . In: Archief voor kerkelijke geschiedenis , IX (1838), 119–231.
• JH Hofman: Paus Adriaan VI '. The voltooiing van zijn levensbeeld . In: Archief voor de geschiedenis van het aartsbisdom Utrecht , XXVIII (1902), 121–154.
• Wilhelmus AJ Munier: Willem van Enckenvoirt. Een Nederlands curieprelaat te Rome (1464-1534) . The Hague 1954.
• Wilhelmus AJ Munier: Willem van Enckenvoirt and his charities . In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history 53, 1958, ISSN  0035-7812 , pp. 146-184.
• WAJ Munier: De curiale loopbaan van Willem van Enckenvoirt vóór het pontificaat van Adriaan VI . In: Archief voor de geschiedenis van de kathieke kerk in Nederland, I (1959), 120–168
• WAJ Munier: Nederlandse curialen en hofbeambten onder het pontificaat van Adriaan VI . In: Mededelingen van het Nederlands Historisch Instituut te Rome , X (1959), 199–226.
• WAJ Munier: Uit de correspondentie van een Nederlands curieprelaat Willem van Enckenvoirt (1464-1534) . In: Nederlandse Historische Bronnen , X, Den Haag 1992, 1-32.
• Paul Berbée: Enckenvoirt, Wilhelm von . In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1448 to 1648. A biographical lexicon . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08422-5 , pp. 154-156.
• Jutta Götzmann : Honoring a Pope as an act of nepotistic loyalty . In: Horst Bredekamp (Ed.): Cult of the dead and the will to power. The restless resting places of the Popes in St. Peter . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-17224-8 , pp. 99–120.
• Eberhard J. Nikitsch: Roman networks at the beginning of the 16th century. Pope Hadrian VI (1522/23) and his clientele in the mirror of their grave monuments. In: QFIAB 91 (2011), pp. 278-317.

predecessor	Office	successor
Adrian Floriszoon Boeyens	Bishop of Tortosa 1523–1534	Antoni de Calcena

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich of the Palatinate	Bishop of Utrecht 1529–1534	George of Egmond