WARTENBERG, Franz Wilhelm, Count of. - Cardinal, b. 1 March 1593 in Munich, d. 1 Dec. 1661 in Regensburg.

Son of Duke Ferdinand of Bavaria and Maria von Pettenbeck, he studied with the Jesuits of Ingolstadt and at the Germanicum in Rome. Bishop of Osnabrück in 1625, he energetically promoted the Catholic Reform and, as imperial commissioner, enforced the Edict of Restitution in the territories around the Elbe. Also Bishop of Verden and of Minden in 1630 and 1632, he had to abandon Osnabrück following the Swedish occupation, from 1633 to 1648. In 1636 he became coadjutor, with the right of succession, of the Bishop of Regensburg, whom he succeeded in 1650. In that year he also recovered the bishopric of Osnabrück. He was created cardinal by Alexander VII on 5 Apr. 1660.

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BIBL.: B.A. Goldschmidt, W., Osnabrück 1866; Politische Correspondenz (1621-31), edited by H. Forst, Leipzig 1897; A. Steinhuber, Gesch. des Koll. German.-Hungar. in Rom, 2 vols., 2nd ed., Freiburg 1906, passim; W. Berning, Die Relatio status des Osnabrücker Bischofs F.W. v. W., in Mitt. d. Ver. für Geschichte u. Landesk. v. Osnabrück, 60 (1940), pp. 133-52; G. Schreiber, Das Welthonzil von Trient, II, Freiburg 1951, pp. 375 ff.

Silvio Furlani

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