Lupold of Bebenburg
Lupold of Bebenburg (c. 1297; † October 28, 1363 ) was a jurist, Offizial of Würzburg bishop and as Lupold / Leopold III. Bishop of Bamberg from 1353 to 1363.
Life
Lupold was a member of a Frankish imperial ministerial, which took its name from the castle Bebenburg at Gerabronn. They sprang from the family of the master chef of Rotenburg and Norte mountain. He studied from 1316 canon law in Bologna and was afterwards canon of Bamberg and Mainz, provost in Erfurt. Most of the time he worked as a canon of Würzburg, among others since 1328 with interruptions as episcopal prosecuted ex officio. In 1353 he became Bishop of Bamberg. The election of the bishop of Constance in 1357, he refused. Lupold died on October 28, 1363 of typhoid fever, bypassed as this disease during a famine.
The surviving writings
- Tractatus de regni et imperii Romani iuribus, dedicated to Archbishop Baldwin of Trier ( written around 1340 )
- Ritmaticum querolosum, a suit, addressed to princes and nobility
- Libellus de zelo christiane religionis veterum principum Germanorum, a reminder addressed to princes and nobility
- Liber privilegiorum as 1346 began recording of the diocese of Würzburg awarded by the German rulers privileges
- Liber de ortu as 1349 was a summary of the Liber privilegiorum, as far as he was concerned Introduction and chronical parts of the latter.
The Tractatus is the main font Lupolds, a book on the political theory of the rights of Franco- German King and Empire. After that, the Roman-German king possessed due to his election by the electors without papal approbation the Herrschschaftsrechte over Germany, Burgundy and Italy, as Emperor he practice on the protection of the Pope and the Church, but had the other European kings until its on the translatio imperii based role as Justice of the Peace largely assimilated. This Lupold provided the theoretical justification for the formation of the curve Reins of Rhense 1338 and the formulation of the Golden Bull of 1356, which should form the legal structure of the Empire as one of the basic laws Empire for centuries.
Works
- State writings of the later Middle Ages 4: Political writings of Lupold of Bebenburg. Tractatus de regni et imperii iuribus - Libellus de zelo Christianae religionis veterum principum Germanorum - Ritmaticum querulosum et lamentosum dictamen de modernist cursibus defectibus et regni ac imperii Romanorum. Edited by Jürgen Miethke and Christoph Flüeler. Hannover 2004 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized version ) ( there is also a comprehensive overview of the life and work, written by Jürgen Miethke )