Eric of Saxe-Lauenburg (prince-bishop)
Erich von Sachsen -Lauenburg (* 1472, † October 20, 1522 ) was 1502/1503 Bishop of Hildesheim and 1508-1522 Bishop of Münster. The son of Duke John IV of Saxe- Lauenburg was in 1502 elected Bishop of Hildesheim. In 1503 he resigned in favor of his brother John IV of Saxe- Lauenburg.
Life
Erich was the eldest son of ten children of Duke John IV of Saxe- Lauenburg and Dorothea of Brandenburg ( † 1519), daughter of the Elector Frederick II He had early contact with the cathedral chapter, was proposed in 1484 to study and studied law customer ( Leges, canon Law ) at the University of Cologne.
Ordained a priest in 1487, he was employed on 27 October 1490 a belonging to him Dompräbende as Kapitular. Another stipend he possessed in Hildesheim. There he was elected on May 21, 1502 Bishop. But although Pope Alexander VI. confirmed the election and consecration allowed Erich resigned before the consecration on July 12, 1503 - possibly because of the indebtedness of the diocese of Hildesheim - favor of his brother John. Erich returned to his prebend Cologne.
As in 1508, died Conrad of Rietberg, Bishop of Osnabrück and Münster, Münster chose the cathedral chapter Erich on February 24, 1508, despite the competitors Johann von Rietberg, nephew of the late Conrad and Cologne canon, and Franz von Waldeck.
Erich was ordained in the same year as bishop and celebrated the first Mass, assisted by his brother John and his half-brother Bernard. During the Hildesheim pin feud Erich supported his brother, the Bishop of Hildesheim. He thus belonged to the so-called Lüneburg collar turned against Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel, Erich I of Calenberg, Bishop Franz von Minden and the Knights of Saldern why Emperor Charles V of the Empire - even about Erich - imposed.
The illegitimate son of his father, Bernard of Saxony, provost of Cologne and Magdeburg, Erich appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of Münster. In the conflict with the well-known as a rear rider Count Klaus von Tecklenburg he left the county Lingen occupy.