Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. II, 1949 History & biography Historians, various biographies

Berthold of Henneberg

BERTOLDO DI HENNEBERG

Italian original Cite

Also known as: German: Berthold von Henneberg; Latin: Bertholdus de Henneberg

BERTHOLD OF HENNEBERG. - Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, b. in 1441, d. on 21 Dec. 1504. In 1484 he was named Archbishop of Mainz and consecrated by Innocent VIII on 20 May 1485. He became chancellor of Maximilian I when the latter was elected emperor in 1493. On 4 Jan. 1496 he established in his diocese a literary censorship, the first that history records. He sent ambassadors to Rome to protest against the bull of 20 Apr. 1487, with which Innocent VIII demanded the tithes of the ecclesiastical properties of Germany in favor of the Crusade. In 1495, at the Diet of Worms, in order to temper the emperor's absolutism, he proposed the institution of an imperial council for affairs of state. He was buried in the cathedral of Mainz.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: J. B. Weckerle, De Bertholdi Hennebergensis archiepiscopi Maguntini... studiis politicis, Münster 1868; Hefele-Leclercq, VIII, 1, pp. 137-38; Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, II (1875), pp. 524-28.

Emma Santovito

About this entry

By Emma Santovito

How we know signed in print

Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), coll. 1475–1476.

More by Emma Santovito: Bertoldo of Reichenau · Bernold of Constance · Bernis, François-Joachim de Pierres de · Biglia, Melchiorre · Benvenuti, Giovanni Antonio

Cite this article

Chicago

Santovito, Emma. “Bertoldo di Henneberg.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, coll. 1475–1476. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bertoldo-di-henneberg.

MLA

Santovito, Emma. “Bertoldo di Henneberg.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1475–1476. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bertoldo-di-henneberg.

BibTeX

@incollection{ec2_bertoldo_di_henneberg,
  author    = {Santovito, Emma},
  title     = {Bertoldo di Henneberg},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {1475--1476},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bertoldo-di-henneberg}
}

One of some 20,000 entries brought back from the twelve printed volumes (1948–54). Spotted something? Help us improve it.