Martin von Eyb

Last updated April 23, 2019

Martin von Eyb (1543–1594) was the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1580 to 1583.

The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire. It goes back to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bamberg established at the 1007 synod in Frankfurt, at the behest of King Henry II to further expand the spread of Christianity in the Franconian lands. The bishops obtained the status of Imperial immediacy about 1245 and ruled their estates as Prince-bishops until they were subsumed to the Electorate of Bavaria in the course of the German Mediatisation in 1802.

Biography

Martin von Eyb was born in Eybburg, which is now a part of Ansbach, in 1543.^[1]

Ansbach is a city in the German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Nuremberg and 90 miles (140 km) north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the Main river. In 2004, its population was 40,723.

He was elected Prince-Bishop of Bamberg on 11 October 1580, with Pope Gregory XIII confirming his appointment on 15 March 1581.^[1]

Pope Gregory XIII, born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 13 May 1572 to his death in 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally accepted civil calendar to this day.

His health deteriorated rapidly, and he resigned on 26 August 1583 without ever having been consecrated as a bishop.^[1] He died on 27 August 1584.^[1]

A bishop is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

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Preceded by Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt	Prince-Bishop of Bamberg 1580–1583	Succeeded by Ernst von Mengersdorf

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