Henry III, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben

Henry III. of Anhalt († November 11, 1307 in Magdeburg ) was Prince of Anhalt- Aschersleben and Archbishop of Magdeburg.

Life

Henry was the son of Henry II and his wife Mechtild a born prince of Anhalt. Together with his brother Otto I. von Anhalt since 1266, he was co-regent official of Anhalt- Aschersleben. He devoted himself to the ecclesiastical state in 1283 and became a canon in Magdeburg and provost of the pin Blasius in Braunschweig. After the death of Burchard II of Blankenburg, he was elected in 1305 to the Archbishop of Magdeburg. He went to obtain the papal confirmation with the pallium to Rome. The Magdeburg Chronicle handed down to this, that he did not understand Latin; therefore he could to Latin questions asked by Pope Clement V, if he knew of the " Lord's Prayer " ( " orationem Dominicam " ), do not respond.

Since he could not answer this, should the Pope have denied him the confirmation. However, his tutor should have apologized that he could not know this, because the " Lord's Prayer " in Magdeburg was not common, but they call it here " the Lord's Prayer ( " Our Father "). Whether this has really happened that way, today can not be safely confirmed; Only is sure Henry, the papal confirmation received on 21 January 1306 Office and had to pay for 1,000 marks Stendaler silver. In order to apply this, the chapter castle and the town Grabau to the bishop of Brandenburg Friedrich had aerating Plötzke.

Having returned to Magdeburg, presented Heinrich 1307 an army and captured on May 6, 1307, the City Beautiful Beck on the Elbe by the Count of Barby. Here, his general Otto served by Welsch life of a List: He let soldiers camouflaged hide on grain carts and bring them secretly into the city. When they arrived at the city gate, the soldiers jumped from the car and secured the gate, so that subsequent units could take the city without resistance.

Once back in Magdeburg, he came with the guarantee in a dispute over Mr. Porte. This was a gate on the south side of the cathedral, whose key had an employee of the City doorman. This the Canon had taken the key of the Magdeburg Mayor Hans von Hohenstein therefore went with the Ratmännern in the chapter house, where the archbishop with the Canon held a meeting and asked for the release of the key. The Archbishop refused to do so with the words " the gate is ours, which they called the Lord Gate" from.

Then answered the mayor, the gate is called the Lord door, but the masters of the gate we are, give her not again the key back, so you do not come from there. Then, the mayor ordered his servants to leave the city bells ring on the John Tower. On hearing this, the archbishop, they gave the key back under renunciation of the Lord door. After the Magdeburg Chronicle of the incident should be so gone to his mind, which he contracted from anger at the humiliation suffered and died.

In the year he died, he left the Monastery of Our Lady in Magdeburg, the right of patronage over the churches in the castle and Schartau and received in return the right of patronage in Pretzien, together with the local best and the mill. According to ancient tradition, he should, though he was not particularly taught to have possessed a penetrating mind. However, due to his short reign to it have no signs can be detected.