Jakob von Baden

Jakob von Baden (* June 6th, 1471 at Castle High Baden / Baden -Baden, † April 27, 1511 in Cologne ) was a Prince of Baden, ( titular ), Margrave of Baden, and from 1503 as of James II of Baden Archbishop and Elector Trier.

Jakob von Baden was the eldest son and the second of fifteen children of Margrave Christoph I. (1453-1527) and his wife Ottilie von Katzenelenbogen (around 1451-1517 ). Regular he had been chosen as James II to the reigning Margrave of the Margraviate of Baden, but suggested according to the family tradition, a religious career. From 1489 he studied in Bologna and Rome theology. In 1490 he was elected to ten years provost of the St. Paulin in Trier, in the following year also for Domizellar. 1497-1498 he was cathedral canons in Mainz and Augsburg, 1499 royal chamber judges. His great-uncle, the Archbishop of Trier Johann II of Baden, appointed him on 16 January 1500 to the coadjutor with the right of succession (from the Latin " cum jure coadiutor successionis " ), he died three years later, on 9 February 1503. Already since 1501 led by Jakob Baden government affairs of the archdiocese. Immediately afterwards, Jacob was chosen by Baden Archbishop of Trier as James II of Baden against the opposition of a not inconsiderable part of the chapter as well as the nobility and the estates. On January 28, 1504 James II received his episcopal consecration. From the Emperor of the new archbishop was entrusted with the settlement of disputes in various cities such as Landshut, Worms and Cologne. Mandatory tasks in his short reign were the necessary consolidation of erzstiftlichen finances. Other activities were his promotion of the young University of Trier and the revival of the Brotherhood being. In one of the many arbitration proceedings, which he chaired, he died not quite forty years old on April 27, 1511 in Cologne and was initially buried in the Collegiate Church of St. Florin in Koblenz. Almost three centuries later, his remains were transferred on 25 June 1808 in the family vault of the house of Baden.