Winrich von Kniprode (Bishop)

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Winrich von Kniprode , also Heinrich von Kniprode or Heinrich IV. , (* Probably in Mainz ; † November 5, 1419 in Arensburg ) was bishop of Ösel-Wieck .

Origin and family

Winrich came from a knightly dynasty from the Lower Rhine , which borrows its name from the Knipprath family estate, a former district of Monheim am Rhein . His parents were Wilhelm von Kniprode and Margarete von Uexküll . The grand master of the Teutonic Order of the same name Winrich von Kniprode († 1382) was his uncle, the Bergische Landdrost Johann Quadt von Buschfeld († after 1452) was his brother-in-law and he was also closely related to Wilhelm von Fahrensbach († before 1443), the Vogt of Arensburg.

Career and work

Kniprode is first attested in a supplic of his uncle dated January 31, 1363, in which this asked Urban V to provide him for a benefice in Liège , since one of Innocent VI granted commission had not been executed. In 1372 he is attested in Prussia , as a Mainz and Liège canon , when he was elected procurator of the German nation in Bologna in 1374 . Since 1376 he studied canon law in Orléans and Bologna, with interruptions due to the occidental schism , and finally earned his doctorate . In the period from 1378 to 1379 he was planned as Bishop of Samland . After he was provisional officer of the church of Ösel in 1383, he was ordained bishop of Ösel-Wiek in Königsberg in 1385 .

The construction of the bishop's castle in Arensburg started by Hermann Buxhoeveden was essentially completed under Kniprode.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Friedrich Mooyer (Ed.): Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD , Minden 1854, p. 75.
  2. ↑ Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon , Berlin 2001, pp. 496–497.
  3. ^ Karl Eduard Napiersky : Index corporis historicodiplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae et Curoniae , Volume 2, Riga and Dorpat 1835, p. 362.
  4. ↑ Volker Seresse : Handbook of Courtyards and Residences in the Late Medieval Empire , Volume 15.I, 2003, pp. 16-17.
predecessor Office successor
Henry III. Bishop of Ösel
1385–1419 		Kaspar Schouwenflug
personal data
SURNAME Kniprode, Winrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kniprode, Heinrich von; Henry IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Ösel-Wieck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1419
Place of death Arensburg