Jošt of Rožmberk

Jost von Rosenberg (also: Jodok of Rosenberg; Czech Jost II z Rožmberka; * November 11, 1430, † December 12, 1467 in Neisse ) was Bishop of Breslau and Grand Prior of the Order of Malta for Bohemia and Austria.

Life

Jost came from the South Bohemian noble family Rosenberg. His parents were Ulrich von Rosenberg and Katharina von Wartenberg. After studying in Prague he entered at an early age with the Order of Malta, as the Grand Prior of it is occupied for the year 1451. Already in 1450 he had attained the dignity of Dompropsts at the St. Vitus Cathedral. On August 24, 1453 he was ordained a priest in Salzburg.

After the death of Bishop Peter Breslauer Nowag the cathedral chapter elected on the recommendation of the Bohemian King Ladislaus Postumus 1456 Jost von Rosenberg as his successor. At the same time it was limited to a statute the power of the future bishop.

The election was confirmed by Pope Calixtus on 9 June 1456 and at the same time - because Jost had not yet reached the canonical age - associated with the appropriate dispensation. The choice is likely to have played a role that Jost's older brother Henry IV of Rosenberg was since 1454 Upper Governor of Silesia.

After the death of Ladislaus Posthumus 1457 Silesia turned, but especially the Breslauer clergy, against the election of George Podiebrad King of Bohemia. Although Jost, unlike his brother Johann II von Rosenberg, was not one of the followers Podiebrad and he represented the interests of the Holy See, his position became difficult as he tried, the interests of the Bohemian King in negotiations with the Vatican as well as to be considered at the Wroclaw Council.

In a memorable sermon in 1461, " About the Blood of God ", he brought Prague citizens to such an extent that he had to take refuge at the king's castle Hory. Although in 1462 his relationship with the king deteriorated, he switched on his behalf on between the Roman Curia and the discontented Utraquist nobility, turned away more and more of Rome. In order to avert the risk of renewed conflict, Jost hoped that the king would turn back to Catholicism and was also trying to win Queen Joanna of his attitude. His brother John, who in imitation of the deceased brother Henry held the office of the Silesian provincial governor since 1457, called Jost in 1467 to return to the Catholic faith. The antihussitische League, founded in the same year is essentially Jost's work, however, was soon by the then papal legate in Wroclaw, Rudolf of Rüdesheim, then Bishop of Lavant and later his successor in Wroclaw, controlled.

In addition to Wroclaw Jost also held in Strakonitz, seat of the Maltese Grand Priory and in Cesky Krumlov, the main residence of the Rosenbergs on. At the age of only 37, he died in the bishop's residence in Neisse and was buried in Wrocław Cathedral, whose western porch he had built.

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