John IX of Haugwitz (german: Johann IX. von Haugwitz, 29 Aug 1524 – 26 March 1595) was

Bishop of Meissen The Bishop of Dresden-Meissen is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen in the Archdiocese of Berlin. The diocese covers an area of and was erected as the Diocese of Meissen on 24 June 1921. The name was changed to Dre ...

from 1555 to 1559 or 1581.

Biography

John IX was born on 29 August 1524 in

Thalheim, Saxony Thalheim is a town in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated 5 km east of Stollberg, and 16 km south of Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city ...

in the Ore Mountains of

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. He came from the Haugwitz family, who held several high clerical offices. He was the last bishop of the Bishopric of Meissen, which became a

Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

diocese in the wake of the

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. On his appointment, John of Carlowitz, a relative of his predecessor began a feud over the inheritance of the episcopal estate. The so-called Pig War or '' Saukrieg'' lasted 3 years before it was resolved by Elector Augustus. He signed the

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in 1577 and the

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in 1580.Irene Dingel (ed.) (2014). ''Die Bekenntnisschriften der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche'' Fully revised edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, , pp. 15 and 762. In 1581, the bishop resigned from his office and converted to the Protestant faith. In 1559, he appointed

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as the Administrator of the remaining Roman Catholic areas. In 1582 he married his considerably younger niece, Agnes. After John's death, she married the Electoral Saxon Advisor (''Rat'') and ''

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'' of

Stolpen Stolpen ( hsb, Stołpin) is a town in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, in Saxony, Germany. It is a historical town, that grew at the foot of the ''Schloßberg'' with the castle ''Burg Stolpen''. Burg Stolpen Burg Stolpen is ...

, Hans Georg von Wehse, and had four daughters from that marriage. Agnes was the heiress of the episcopal estate. John IX died in

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on 26 March 1595; his gravestone is in the town church of Neu-

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Literature

* Eduard Machatschek: ''Geschichte der Bischöfe des Hochstiftes Meissen in chronologischer Reihenfolge (…)''. Dresden, 1884. pp. 762–830. *

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Johann von Haugwitz im Stadtwiki Dresden
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