Dietrich I. von Hengebach

Dietrich von Hengebach (* 1150, † by 1224 ) was as Dietrich I. 1208 to 1212 and in 1215 Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Life

His origin and ancestry is not released. His surname suggests the Hengebach castle in the Eifel.

In 1166 he was assigned as pastor of St. Apostles in Cologne. In 1199 he was defeated as opposition candidate Engelbert of Berg in the election for the Cologne Cathedral Provost. Since Dietrich but did not want to admit defeat, followed by a lawsuit to 1204.

After the death of Archbishop Bruno IV, there was once no episcopal election, as it was not on the Rights of what has been Archbishop Adolf I of Altena united in the Prior College. Only the vigorous insistence of Emperor Otto IV then led on 22 December 1208 an election meeting, which then unanimously struck Dietrich von Hengebach. He received his priestly and episcopal ordination on 24 May 1209.

Since Dietrich did not have the flexibility, which required the policy of this time, he fell into the fairway Otto IV Since Otto IV was turning into a Hohenstaufen Italy politics after his imperial coronation and was confirmed in November 1210 with the excommunication, met this spell also the Archbishop because this was one of his followers. Quick, the Emperor now lost political ground. To maintain his power base would require the emperor more and more money, which could only give him his followers. So the Archbishop taxed his subordinates getting stronger and also the spiritual institutions that were actually tax-free. This cost him not only his reputation, but also brought increasing displeasure.

When Dietrich then also refused the papal excommunication of the emperor to announce this and ignored persistently met him in March 1212 the same punishment. Although all priestly and episcopal functions were thus forbidden to him, the Archbishop celebrated continue the show, and consecrated on Holy Thursday, the holy oils, then dropped him the papal legate and archbishop of Mainz in 1212 and Adolf I of Altena transferred the governance of the diocese.

Adolf of Altena looked on the up again. Dietrich von Hengebach therefore brought a costly process in Rome, which was to take him back to the office of the Archbishop and went to this personally to Rome, where he remained until the end of the process, in 1215. But the ruling confirmed Dietrich's dismissal, and asked the cathedral chapter to the next election of an archbishop to proceed. At the cost of the process, the Archdiocese of Cologne had to pay up to 1238.

After his dismissal, he lived again in the deanery of St. Apostles. He died after 1223.