Charles Joseph of Lorraine
Karl Joseph Johann Anton Ignaz Felix of Lorraine (* November 24, 1680 in Vienna, † December 4, 1715 in Vienna) was the son of Duke Charles V of Lorraine and Bishop of Olomouc and Osnabrück as well as Archbishop and Elector of Trier.
Life
Since 1687 Domschüler ( " Domicellar " ) and, later, a canon in Cologne, he became a canon in 1691 in Osnabruck, 1692 in Trento, shortly thereafter in Olomouc, 1702 in Trier and 1715 in Liege. At the same time he was since 1689 pastor of the Primitialkirche in Nancy, and since 1693 the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta to Castile and Leon, before 1694 commendatory of the Benedictine BMV della Magione in the Archdiocese of Palermo, the Abbey of San Stefano in Bologna, the Abbey BMV de Chiaravalle in the diocese of Senigallia since the September 13, 1699 the Abbey Lisle -en- Barois.
On September 13, 1694, the cathedral chapter of Olomouc him had postulated coadjutor of the ruling bishop, what on January 20, 1695, the papal confirmation by Innocent XII it. received, but until his 25th birthday exclude him from the Temporalienverwaltung and up to the age of 30 from the spiritual administration of the diocese, which should be done by papal administrators. On September 23, 1695, the Bishop of Olomouc and Lorraine died succeeded him under the already certain conditions. In fact, he was able to take the Temporalienverwaltung on May 11, 1700, the co-administration of spiritualia on 27 June 1703.
Although his chances were slim, he was elected in Osnabrück on April 14, 1698 to the bishop. The papal confirmation by September 27, 1698 allowed him in this case the retention of the Diocese of Olomouc, so he was already bishop of two dioceses now.
When his brother tried in 1701 in Lorraine enforce the state church, the pope refused to confirm the election of 1701, the coadjutor of the prince-abbot of Stavelot and also in 1706 in Münster, in the election of bishops fallen on him votes. Although there was no reconciliation between Lorraine and the Pope, he obtained in 1710 for the elections in Trier a Wählbarkeitsbreve. So he did not need to be postulated, but was elected on September 24, 1710 Coadjutor Archbishop of Trier. With the death of the local archbishop, on 6 January 1711, he took over the government and received without objection, the confirmation of the Pope. However, for this he had to leave the Diocese of Olomouc.
He held in Olomouc only the necessary duty stays, so Lorraine took an elaborate royal household in the Osnabrück city castle. Also at the residence of his brother, Luneville, he stayed for a long time. When he had taken over the government in 1711 in Trier, he commuted between Trier, Luneville, Vienna and Osnabrück back and forth.
The responsible and able administrators held a farm of over 100 heads and sought the recovery of the whole estate within its dioceses, which were partially controlled by the war and bustle of occupation forces. Ordained a subdeacon Even before 1703 he moved his residence from 1713 primarily to Ehrenbreitstein and died two years later in Vienna on smallpox.