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| | The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of March 24, 1518 |
 | | Canon of the cathedral chapter of Mainz, 1508; he spent the mandatory yearly residence in Mainz in the company of Dr. Dietrich von Diskau and a small state court in 1510; he was also canon of the cathedral chapters of Magdeburg and Trier. |
 | | Consecrated, July 2, 1514, cathedral of Magdeburg, by Theodor von Bülow, bishop of Lebus, assisted by Johannes von Schlabrendorff, bishop of Havelberg; Hieronymus Schultz, bishop of Brandenburg; Adolf von Anhalt-Zerbst, bishop of Merseburg; and by Johannes von Schönberg, bishop of Naumburg. |
 | | His hostility towards the reformers was not as extreme as that of his brother Joachim I, elector of Brandenburg; he exerted himself in the interests of peace, although he was a member of the League of Nuremberg, which was formed in 1538 to respond to the League of Schmalkalden. |
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