Daniel Brendel von Homburg
Daniel Brendel of Homburg (* March 22, 1523 in Aschaffenburg, † March 22, 1582 ibid ) was from 1555 to Elector and Archbishop of Mainz from the family Brendel von Homburg.
Life
He was elected on April 22, 1555 to the archbishop, where he only got one vote more than his rather Lutheran minded rival, the Count Palatine Reichard. He received episcopal consecration at Pentecost 1557 in Aschaffenburg by the Speyer bishop Rudolf von and Frankenstein, who had lobbied for its sustainable choice.
He died 1582 and was buried in Mainz Cathedral.
Work
His work as archbishop is closely linked with the history of the University of Mainz, he founded but in 1561 the college of the Jesuits in Mainz, which was already in 1568 with several hundred members of officially recognized as part of the university. The Jesuits took over then almost all chairs of the theological and philosophical faculties. Another college that can rely on its founding spirit, the Holy City is in the formerly Protestant calibration field. This foundation was 1575th It must be seen as part of the Counter-Reformation and shows the esteem Brendel against the decrees of Trent.
Full secular seemed the Elector especially by the purchase of the Spessart county Rieneck with Lohr and the Taunus County Eppstein - Königstein for the Electorate of Mainz. Especially it had done to him the restoration of old ruins, some examples are:
- The Weyberhöfe with the tombs of the noble family of Cancrin in Sailauf,
- The former moated castle Roth book in Roth book and
- The Martinsburg in Mainz,
That had fallen all the turmoil of the peasant wars victim.
He was instrumental in the emergence and the development of the Frankfurt Elector day of 1558. There came to the rich legal confirmation of the transition from retiring, Charles V. and Ferdinand I. to the renewal of Kurverein thought.
His great- nephew ( grandson of his brother ) was the future Bishop of Worms Johann Karl of Franckenstein ( 1610-1691 ).