The King’s Cousin, the Emperor’s Bishop. Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz as Mediator between Poland and the Holy See.
Author(s)
Béla Vilmos Mihalik
Date Issued
2021
Type
article
Volume
4
Start Page
261
End Page
274
Journal
Abstract
Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz played a decisive role in the election of his cousin, Augustus II to King of Poland, when he converted Augustus to Catholicism in 1697. Christian August, also a convert, gained the sympathy of the Holy See in the early 1690s, and became Bishop of Győr in Hungary in 1696. After the conversion and the turbulent election of his cousin, the bishop tried to mediate toward the Holy See and helped to consolidate the rule of Augustus II. In return a hope was growing, that Christian August will be elevated to cardinalate with the support of his cousin and the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. Although Augustus II earlier nominated Johann Philipp von Lamberg, the Bishop of Passau as Polish candidate, the aging Pope Innocent XII admitted also that the cardinalate of Christian August would be “the coronation of his pontificate”. The paper examines the intermediary activity of Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz and his failed nomination to cardinalate.
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