Adolf III of Schauenburg

Adolf of Schaumburg, in part, also called by Look Castle, ( * January 19, 1511, † September 20, 1556 in Brühl) was Adolf III. 1547-1556 Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne. He was as Adolf XIII. 1531-1544 Count of Holstein- Pinneberg and the tribe county looking castle.

Life

Adolf III. was a son of Count Jobst von Schaumburg and Holstein - Pinneberg and of Mary of Nassau- Dillenburg. He was baptized on February 3, 1511. He had two older and seven younger brothers, as well as two sisters.

As a younger son he was destined for the ecclesiastical career. In 1522 he began to study in Leuven. From 1528 on he has received several ecclesiastical offices. At first he was on September 2, 1528 canon to Liege, where he was promoted on 30 May 1533 provost. During this time he was also dean of the pin Holy Cross in Liege. In 1529 he became canon of Mainz and at December 23, 1529 also to Cologne, where he he was also dean later. In the same year he received a benefice as a pin dean of St. Gereon in Cologne, from which he moved to the parish of St. Gereon 1533.

1531 his father died. Since the two older brothers had died in the meantime, Adolf took over control of the County of Schaumburg and was guardian of his siblings. It was only on April 21, 1544, he renounced his final governmental and Primogeniturrechte favor of his now 25 - year-old brother Otto IV of Holstein- Pinneberg. This year, he also took over the guardianship of the Count of Nassau- Orange.

The cathedral chapter elected Adolf on December 17, 1533 coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Cologne, which the option was connected to the successor of Archbishop Hermann von Wied. Together with the Archbishop he tried in Rome to the recognition of the election by the Pope. He had the cathedral chapter must appeal in an election capitulation that he could be consecrated within one year after the acquisition of the office as Archbishop to priests and bishops.

The new Hofordnung of the Elector - Archbishop of 1539 had not only collected, but also secured therein a substantial proportion of the government and Hofgeschäften Adolf. With the growing Reformation attempts by the incumbent archbishop Adolf grew a crucial role as a guarantor of Catholicism. Even Pope Paul III. challenged him on 3 June 1543 vigilance against the archbishop, and to perform his duties with force.

After Pope Paul III. Archbishop Hermann V of Wied on July 3, 1546 relieved of his office, he appointed Adolf with this date to the administrator of the archdiocese. On January 24, 1547 Adolf was enthroned by the chapter as the new archbishop. Archbishop Hermann waived on February 25, 1547 formally to his office. On May 3, 1547 consecrated by Bishop Johann Nopel in Cologne for the priest, Adolf immediately went hard against Protestant preachers and forbade their preaching in his diocese. He picked up many changes of his predecessor Hermann V of Wied and forbade Protestant preaching in his diocese. Accompanied by the Carmelite Provincial Eberhard Billick he took from September 1547 to June 1548 at the Diet of Augsburg in part. There was Adolf, also consecrated on April 8, 1548 by the local bishop Otto Cardinal Steward of Waldburg in the presence of the emperor to the bishop.

1551 took part in the Council of the Archbishop of Trent. He was accompanied by John Gropper and the Provincial of the Carmelites, Eberhard Billick. At the Council, he was the celebrant of the Allerheiligenmesse. The Archbishop actively participated in the council and handed this on November 6, 1551, a written vote.

He died on September 20, 1556, a Sunday, in Brühl, and was buried near the choir inside the Cologne Cathedral.