Georg von Blumenthal

Georg von Blumenthal (* 1490 in Horst, today part of the Holy Sepulchre, † September 25, 1550 in Lebus ) was a German Roman Catholic bishop.

Life

Georg von Blumenthal came from the Prignitzer landed gentry. His father Hans von Blumenthal († 1524) possessed the manor Horst and villages Vehlow, Blumenthal, and Brüsenhagen, and a share of Rosenwinkel. Already in 1507 he is mentioned as secretary to the bishop Dietrich von Bülow. 1513 he was appointed as dean of Lebus same time rector of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder and was here later for Dr. iur. utr. doctorate. In 1520 he received a Domherrenstelle at Ratzeburg Cathedral. In the same year he was elected bishop of Havel mountain and confirmed by the Pope, but the choice could not accept because of the opposition of the Elector of Brandenburg. From 1521, he was ( with an interruption from 1526 to 1529 ) as holding a large stipend also canon in Lübeck.1524 he was Bishop of Lebus and shortly thereafter as the successor of Heinrich Meier Mountain Bishop of Ratzeburg - against the fierce resistance of the Duke Magnus I. of Lauenburg.

He mostly stayed in the diocese of Lebus, and was represented in Ratzeburg by the Dompropsten. In 1528, he became embroiled in a feud with the Mark nobles and could barely escaped an attack on the Bishop's Palace in Prince forest. 1529, however, he came to Ratzeburg and let the Reformation -minded preacher Thomas Aderpul to jail, which led to a feud with the nobles of Klützer angle and a lengthy Reichskammergericht process that only ended in 1540 with a verdict in favor of the bishop.

In 1530 he accompanied the elector Joachim I. to the Augsburg Reichstag. Here he obtained against Duke Magnus I. an imperial ban because of rape church property in 1536 and won even a Empire chamber process against him. To finance the processes of the bishop and the cathedral chapter had Ratzeburg from 1530 sell the Cathedral. As a result, his sphere was limited by the advance of the Reformation, which he energetically opposed more and more. He was buried in St. Mary's Cathedral Fiirstenwalde.