Walram of Jülich

Walram of Jülich (c. 1304; † August 14, 1349 in Paris) was from 1332 to 1349 Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Walram was one of the younger sons of Count Gerhard V of Jülich and his second wife Elizabeth of Brabant - Aarschot. From 1316 to 1330 he studied in Orléans and Paris. Since 1327 he was a canon in Cologne and provost in Maastricht.

Walrams brother, Earl William V of Julich, turned the election of his brother's enormous sums of money that Walram until his death could not pay back entirely. Although the cathedral chapter had the france friendly bishop of Liege, Adolf II postulated, succeeded the Count of Jülich enforce his brother. Was Walram so on January 27, 1332 by support of Pope John XXII. , The new Archbishop of Cologne.

At this time lived Walram of Jülich still in France. His new duties he owed less to his scientific education, as his high birth and the assertiveness of his brother. The simmering for a decade tensions between the Archbishopric of Cologne and the County of Jülich were dismantled in the reign Walrams and coordinated action of the two states could be achieved, but Count William V was the dominant partner. On the Lower Rhine so there was peace, which favored the beginning of the term of office of the Archbishop. In Westphalia, however, the archbishopric was involved in serious feuds with the Counts of Mark. The rest on the Rhine allowed Walram, 1345 to concentrate his forces and defeat the county of Mark temporarily as a political entity. But the ruler of the southern Westphalia had far-reaching relationships, especially familial type, so that the situation escalated and soon produced a wide -area battlefield. In the years 1347 and 1349, however, a peace treaty was negotiated through mediation.

The significant upgrade had the finances Kurkölns so overused that the cathedral now activated his Mitherrschaftsrechte and tied the Archbishop for future decisions require its approval. The circumcision of his absolute power, perhaps also the insight into his personal weakness, induced the archbishop in 1347 to retreat from the everyday business of government. The leadership of Finance, later other skills, he left the knight Reinhard von Schönau.

Walram but also could show some success. His voice for the election of Charles IV, he was abgewinnen with concessions and money, with which he acquired areas to round out the electorate.

As a client of artworks Walram stepped out of Jülich with a window ensemble of three lancet windows, which he donated for the mitgestiftete by his grandmother Cologne convent of St. Clara. On the window it is shown next to his grandmother as a kneeling donor.

1349, he joined with a small retinue a trip to France to, ostensibly to spare the archbishopric an expensive royal household. He died on August 14, 1349 in Paris. His body was transferred to Cologne and he was laid to rest in the choir of Cologne Cathedral.

Today there are in Menden (Sauerland ) is a Walram Gymnasium at the Walram road.