Ladislaus of Salzburg
Vladislav of Silesia, (also: Ladislaus of Silesia; Wlodizlaus of Salzburg, * 1237, † April 27, 1270 probably in Salzburg) was Chancellor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II, elected Bishop of Bamberg and Passau, Archbishop of Salzburg and Administrator of Breslau.
Family
Vladislav was the youngest son of Duke Henry the Pious of the Silesian line of the Piast dynasty and his wife Anne of Bohemia, daughter of the Bohemian King Ottokar I. Přemysl. His siblings were:
- Boleslaw († 1278 ), Duke of Legnica
- Mieszko († 1242 ), Duke of Lebus
- Henry III. († 1266 ), Duke of Wroclaw
- Conrad II, 's chosen bishop of Passau ( resigned in 1249 ), Duke of Silesia, from 1251 Duke of Glogau
- Elizabeth, married to the great Polish Duke Przemysław I.
Biography
After the death of Henry II whose dominion was transferred to avoid further fragmentation only at the older sons Heinrich and Boleslaw. They were obliged to equip each one of her younger brothers Konrad and Vladislav, which were intended for the clergy of its subjects. Henry chose the youngest brother Vladislav. Their common medium Silesian area remained undivided.
1255 was provost of the collegiate Vladislav at Vysehrad and a short time later Chancellor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II through the church- political position of Vladislav and the close relationship with Otakar II, the existing relations of Silesia were deepened with Bohemia. Although Vladislav was mostly out of the country, he authenticated from 1257 several times with his brother Henry. Both awarded in 1261 its capital Wrocław, the Magdeburg Law.
Vladislav held the office of papal chaplain and was a canon of Bamberg since 1256. In September 1257 he was elected a member of the local cathedral chapter to succeed the late Bishop Henry I of Bilversheim. This office he could not compete because he was only 20 years old and he therefore refused the Pope the necessary dispensation. In 1262 he was Scholaster the Breslau cathedral chapter. Meanwhile canon Magister Peter was Vladislav Hofmeister and accompanied him in 1265 to Padua, where Vladislav took up a course of study. At the instigation of the Bohemian King Ottokar II of Passau cathedral chapter elected on 22 April this year Vladislav bishop, and on the 6th October this year, he was elected Archbishop of Salzburg. Pope Clement IV issued on November 20 of this year, his approval for the appointment of the Archbishop of Salzburg and at the same dispensation because of the not yet reached the canonical age and the lack of higher orders of the candidate. To the Bishop of Passau, the Pope appointed on 24 November this year Vladislav Peter Hofmeister.
Vladislav first came in the spring of 1266 to Salzburg. Since he co-regent with his older brother Henry III. was, he had to return again to Silesia. After Henry's death on December 3, 1266 Vladislav took over the government guardianship of his nephew Henry IV, thereby Vladislav return to Salzburg delayed. At his archdiocese, he did not renounce.
On June 11, 1267 he was ordained in Salzburg by his former tutor and nunmehrigen Peter, Bishop of Passau priest. The next day the episcopal ordination with the assistance of the bishops of Freising Conrad II, Leo Thun villages of Regensburg and Heinrich von Lützelburg of Chiemsee was. During his short tenure in Salzburg, he managed to stabilize the complicated situation of the diocese and to restore the narrowed under his predecessor rights. In his projects supported him, especially his later successor, Provost Frederick of Walchen. Vladislav visitierte parts of his diocese and their Eigenbistümer. With a " ship Mr. privilege" he regulated the rights of Laufener Schiffer, with a Münzvereinbarung the minting of coins. In Carinthia, he acquired extensive possessions of his diocese. He repeatedly acted as arbitrator in disputes.
Great influence exercised Vladislav for the canonization of his 1243 deceased grandmother Hedwig of Andechs. She was born on March 26, 1267 canonized by Pope Clement IV.
After the death of the Breslau Bishop Thomas I. 1268 Vladislav was elected by the chapter as his successor. As he had not waived his Salzburg archbishopric, the Pope refused to give his consent, so that he was only appointed administrator of Wroclaw. The title of archbishop of Salzburg, he kept still.
He probably died in Salzburg and was buried before the Lady altar of the cathedral. His sole heir he provisions in his will to his nephew Henry IV This had to do without in 1277 to one-third of his inheritance in favor of his uncle Boleslaw II.