Albert II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Albert II of Brunswick -Lüneburg (c. 1359/60; † April 14, 1395 in Bremervörde ) was archbishop of Bremen.
Life
In the genealogies of the House of Brunswick, he was named Albrecht. He was the son of Duke Magnus Pius I. of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel and Sophie of Brandenburg- Landsberg. He was the grandson of Countess Agnes of Brandenburg -Landsberg, a sister of the Emperor Louis of Bavaria.
Albert was first canon of Magdeburg and provost of St. Paul in Halberstadt. With Albert a contest between the House of Oldenburg and the Guelphs began at the Archbishopric of Bremen. Albert had initially against Maurice of Oldenburg prevail, which was still used by Gottfried of Arnsberg as an administrator. Moritz had the support of the city of Bremen and the cathedral chapter, but Albert had the support of the Curia and his family. In 1361 he was recognized as archbishop, only Moritz resist. Only after a siege of the castle Bremervörde in January 1363 by an army of Brunswick and Lüneburg Wilhelm renounced Moritz in a contract the pen.
Alberts government was aimlessly in internal disputes, he remained mostly inactive. Add the almond Loher feud earning shear and Bremen's ministeriales against Bremen, which devastated the whole pen in 1381, he reached a little. Only in 1366 he tried the dispute between the Bremen Council and the guilds of the city - the so-called banner run - to use to his advantage, but nevertheless remained unsuccessful. Bremen and Stade made thereupon almost independent of Albert.
He led a lavish lifestyle. To finance this, he began to pledge church property. He decides that since the beginning of centuries ongoing series of archbishops who directed their pen to reason, saying that he left an even more outrageous decay and a limitless confusion. 1369 he pledged for 4150 Mark the Dukes William of Lüneburg and Magnus II of Brunswick the whole pen with all the locks that he had and appointed Daniel von Borch according to their will to administrator; In 1375 he mortgaged the Bremen church property right of the Elbe to Count Adolf of Holstein, Stedingen he replied to the counts of Oldenburg. The latter two church property went to the archbishopric of Bremen permanently lost.
The biggest scandal Alberts government was the public accusation that he was a hermaphrodite. This accusation was made as part of the Lüneburg War of Succession by the dean of Johann Zesterfleth, later Bishop Johann von Verden, to displace the Brunswick Albrecht.