Jakob von Liebenstein

Jakob von Liebenstein
Jakob von Liebenstein
	Archbishop of Mainz
	Jakob von Liebenstein (engraving 17th century)
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Electorate of Mainz
In office	1504–1508
Personal details
Born	1462
Died	15 September 1508

Last updated April 10, 2019

Jacob of Liebenstein (German : Jakob von Liebenstein) (1462–1508) was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1504 to 1508.

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Biography

Jacob of Liebenstein was born in 1462, the son of Peter II of Liebenstein and his wife Agnes (née Kaltental).

Liebenstein is a village and a former municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the municipality Geratal.

Groomed for a life in the church from an early age, Jacob became a canon of Family of de Haas in the Netherlands. Mainz Cathedral in 1470. He was sent to study at the University of Basel (Rektor 1474; lic. jur. 1482). He became dean of Mainz Cathedral in 1497.

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Following the death of Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild in 1504, the cathedral chapter of Mainz elected Jacob as Archbishop of Mainz on 30 December 1504. His reign is marked by the expansion of the size of the Archbishopric of Mainz. Jacob was also a supporter of Imperial Reform, and participated enthusiastically in the Diet held in Cologne in 1505 and the Diet of Konstanz in 1507, where he was in favour of financial reforms and the creation of the Reichskammergericht . Jacob expelled all Jews from the Archbishopric of Mainz in 1507 (they had already been expelled from the city of Mainz in 1470).

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Jacob died on 15 September 1508 and is buried in Mainz Cathedral. His funerary monument was designed by Hans Backoffen.

Hans Backoffen was a German sculptor.

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References

This page is based on this page on German Wikipedia.
Brück, Anton Ph., „Jakob von Liebenstein“, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), S. 315
Friedhelm Jürgensmeier, "Jakob von Liebenstein", in Erwin Gatz (ed.):The bishops of the Holy Roman Empire from 1448 to 1648. A Biographical Dictionary (Berlin: Duncker and Humblot 1996)

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Preceded by Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild	Archbishop-Elector of Mainz 1504 – 1508	Succeeded by Uriel von Gemmingen

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Jakob von Liebenstein
Archbishop of Mainz
Jakob von Liebenstein (engraving 17th century)
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Electorate of Mainz
In office	1504–1508
Personal details
Born	1462
Died	15 September 1508