Abstract
Abstract On the rights of patronage in Hesse - patronal churches of the Schencken zu Schweinsberg. The starting point for this study is a charter of the year 1235, by which Archbishop Siegfried III of Mainz exempted the chapel of Elnhausen from the mother churches Michelbach and Oberweimar near Marburg “de consensu patronorum [vel] advocatorum Guntrami scilicet et Wideroldi de Marburg”. At issue are the following questions: 1. Are the expressions patronus and advocatus synonymous here? - 2. Who was patron in Michelbach, who in Oberweimar, and how did the rights of patronage of both churches come down to the Schencken of Schweinsberg, who held them from the 16th century? - 3. Are we dealing with what had earlier been proprietary churches, where features of this right may possibly have survived, or with patronal churches of a new legal order, and how did the Reformation affect the right of presentation and the ecclesiastical rights of the patrons?
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