Hermann of Wied
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'''Hermann of Wied''' ([[January 14]], [[1477]] - [[August 15]], [[1552]]) was elector and [[archbishop of Cologne]].
==Biography==
Hermann was the fourth son of Frederick, count of [[Wied]] (d. 1487).
Educated for the Church, he became elector and archbishop in [[1515]], and ruled his electorate with vigour and intelligence, taking up at first an attitude of hostility towards the reformers and their teaching. A quarrel with the papacy turned, or helped to turn, his thoughts in the direction of Church reform, but he hoped this would come from within rather than from without, and with the aid of his friend [[John Gropper]], began, about 1536, to institute certain reforms in his own diocese.
One step led to another, and as all efforts at union failed the elector invited [[Martin Bucer]] to Cologne in 1542. Supported by the estates of the electorate, and relying upon the recess of the [[Diet of Ratisbon (1541)|diet of Regensburg]] in 1541, he encouraged Bucer to press on with the work of reform, and in [[1543]] invited [[Philipp Melanchthon|Melanchthon]] to his assistance.
His conversion was hailed with great joy by the [[Protestants]], and the [[league of Schmalkalden]] declared they were resolved to defend him; but the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] in the electorate received checks from the victory of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] over [[Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg|William, duke of Cleves]], and the hostility of the citizens of Cologne. Summoned both before the emperor and the pope, the elector was deposed and [[excommunication|excommunicated]] by [[pope Paul III|Paul III]] in [[1546]].
He resigned his office in February [[1547]], and retired to Wied. Hermann was also a [[bishop of Paderborn]] from 1532 to 1547.
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before=[[Philipp II von Daun-Oberstein]]|
title=[[Archbishopric of Cologne|Archbishop of Cologne]]|
years=[[1515]]-[[1546]]|
after=[[Adolf III von Schauenburg]]|
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[[Category:Archbishops of Cologne]]
[[Category:Bishops of Paderborn]]
[[Category:16th century Roman Catholic archbishops]]
==References==
*{{1911}}
[[de:Hermann V. von Wied]]