Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
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Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1469 – 30 March 1540) was a
Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg
from 1519 to 1540.
Life
Matthäus Lang was the son of a burgher of
Prince-Archbishop, whom he succeeded in 1519. He received the title of a Cardinal Bishop of the Suburbicarian diocese of Albano
in 1535.
In the course of the
Burg Hohenwerfen and even laid siege to his residence at Hohensalzburg, until they were finally defeated with the aid of troops provided by the Swabian League
.
Cardinal Lang was one of the chief ministers of
Cardinal Wolsey. The writer and courtier Maximilianus Transylvanus, a secretary to Charles V, is often said to be a son of Lang's (see Maximilianus Transylvanus for this discussion). [citation needed
]
Bibliography
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- Nicole Riegel: Die Bautätigkeit des Kardinals Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1468–1540), Münster (Westf.) 2009. ISBN 978-3-930454-75-4
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lang von Wellenburg, Matthäus". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Salzburg Coins (in German)
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- OCLC 53276621.
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