Chaplain#Domestic
With court clergy are referred to the whole of the sacred ministers at a Duke's palace.
History
In the Middle Ages the Hofgeistliche was both the spiritual care ( capellanus chaplain to the court orchestra ) as well - used (at the chancellery chancellor Cancellarius ) to paperwork - due to its formation. He lived at first not at court, but as a member of a monastery or post in the area of the territorial sovereign. He was Materially powered by benefices, not by the court. Partial accompanied the Hofgeistliche the ruler on trips and in war.
With the development of professional notary in the late Middle Ages, the sacred ministers focused increasingly on the political sphere. He appeared as a prince or king consultants in appearance. In addition, he held significant cultural influence at court, such as the author of courtly texts in the vernacular. These include the authors of the Lucidarius, Heinrich von Veldeke or Herbort Fritzlar.
When converted Hofburg Chapel in Hofgemeinden in the 15th century, there was a differentiation offices. For example occurred in Vienna next to the chaplain 1435 Hofpfarrer, court chaplain or almoner. The court clergy was now fully part of the court.
In the Catholic world was from the 16th century, the inclusion of certain orders on the farm, as usually assumed a Jesuit, the role of the confessor.
Even in the Protestant area was an independent court clergy, the court chaplain (eg Georg Spalatin ) knew Divine Worship and the official acts of the court.
From the 16th century an increasing political and church- political role took especially the Catholic, but also Protestant Court Chaplain, true.
1613 took place in Dresden, titled " court preacher " a further differentiation offices, who stood as the court chaplain to the Oberhof or marshal. The court preacher stood before the members of the court orchestra.
As in the same year Johann Sigismund converted to Calvinism, was the court chaplain to the formation of the United Church in 1817 almost the only Reformed preacher in the otherwise predominantly Lutheran state Brandenburg- Prussia.
In Hesse - Kassel and Hesse -Darmstadt, the court preacher contributed significantly to the formation of national churches.
In the course of the 17th century changed the self-understanding of the Protestant Court Chaplain, from the counselor was admonishing the theologian who sometimes rather continued the resulting criticism of absolutism.
Notwithstanding this, the court chaplain as an exponent of conservatism in many cases even the target of public ridicule in the 19th century.
Gallery
Wilhelm Lamormaini, Jesuit, confessor to Ferdinand II
War memorial consecration in 1923: Prince Oskar of Prussia, court preacher Dr. Vogel
Rudolf Wilke: court preacher, Caricature in Simplicissimus, 1908