Zbyněk Zajíc of Hazmburk

Zbynko Zajíc Hasenburg (also: Zbynek Zajíc Hasenburg; Zbinko hare hare Castle; Czech: Zbynek Zajíc Hazmburka; * 1376, † September 28, 1411 in Bratislava ) was the Archbishop of Prague.

Origin

His parents were William Zajíc Hasenburg ( Vilém Zajíc Hazmburka ) and Anna of Slavětín and Libochowitz (Anna ze Slavětína a Libochovic ). His father, who was intended for the clerical career, acquired with the help of Emperor Charles IV several benefices to which he renounced in 1358 and got married. Zbynko had five brothers and four sisters. The older brother Ulrich Zajíc Hasenburg ( Oldrich Zajíc Házmburka ) held under Wenceslas IV the office of Royal Council. 1390 was Zbynko provost of Melnik and thus canon of Prague.

Archbishop of Prague

After the Prague Archbishop Nicholas Puchník of Černice died before his episcopal ordination, should Zbynko Zajíc Hasenburg its successor. At the instigation of King Wenceslas therefore granted him the Pope on November 20, 1402 a Altersdispens for the episcopate, which was followed by a bishop in the same month. He received the pallium on 1 December 1402. The formal election by the cathedral chapter took place only in September 1403.

After he was a member of the Royal Council as archbishop, the state government gave him for the duration of a journey King Wenceslas to Wroclaw 1404, the management of the Landwehr. During this time he led an expedition to Bavaria.

His official duties as archbishop took Zbynko seriously and also took care of an orderly administration and good economic management of his diocese. At the beginning of his tenure, there were disputes with the Litomysl Bishop John IV of Bucca. 1404-1408 he made a visitation of the clergy, in 1411 the monastery of the Augustinian Hermits in Trebon. He held several diocesan synods and attempted to church necessary reforms.

1408 there was a break with him advisory professors of the university, because of their attitude to John Wyclif. Counter whose followers he was chosen from before 1409. He remained faithful to the Roman Pontiff, and sent representatives to the council in 1409 to Cividale. After this failed, he joined and his ecclesiastical province of the antipope Alexander V.

First, he stood at the side of Jan Hus and appointed him to investigate the shortcomings and deviations from the applicable law. After Kutna Hora Decree itself Zbynko distanced by Jan Hus and forbade him the sermons in the Bethlehem Chapel. He condemned Wyclif's writings, let them seize and burn on July 16, 1410 in the courtyard of the episcopal palace. To a serious conflict with King Wenceslas came when this was confiscate the income of the Prague clergy. Below Zbynek imposed the interdict over Prague. Finally, he submitted to an arbitral award of the Royal Council, which demanded the withdrawal of it. After a reconciliation with King Wenceslas was not possible, he went first to Leitomischl and sought a meeting with the Hungarian king Sigismund of which he promised to protection and assistance. It never came, Zbynek fell ill on the way and died in Bratislava on 28 September 1411. His body was buried in 1436 in St. Vitus Cathedral.

The Hasenburger Missal

From the possession of the Archbishop to the 1409 age and now named after him Hasenburg Missal is received, an outstanding work Bohemian book illumination in the Gothic style of his time.