Dietrich (Theodoric) Schenk von Erbach (died 6 May 1459) was a German nobleman. He was Archbishop of Mainz from 1434 until 1459. Theodoric was a son of Arch-Cupbearer Eberhard VI of Erbach. He was a member of the cathedral chapter of

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...

when on 6 July 1434 he was elected its archbishop. Theodoric was confirmed by

Pope Eugene IV Pope Eugene IV ( la, Eugenius IV; it, Eugenio IV; 1383 – 23 February 1447), born Gabriele Condulmer, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 3 March 1431 to his death in February 1447. Condulmer was a Venetian, and ...

on 20 October. At the

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Theodoric maintained a neutral position and tried to mediate between both sides. In 1439 he managed to get all the

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princes and the King to recognise Eugene as the legal pope. He commissioned the printing of the Mainz Psalter. Theodoric died in

Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Aschebersch'') is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not part of the Aschaffenburg (district), district of Aschaffenburg, but is its administrative sea ...

in 1459.

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{{Authority control 1459 deaths Archbishop-Electors of Mainz 15th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Holy Roman Empire House of Erbach Year of birth unknown