Balduin von Trier

Balduin von Trier (1285-1354), archbishop of Trier from 1307, was prominent in German politics, contriving the election of two emperors, Heinrich VII in 1308 and Ludwig IV in 1314. For a time he supported imperial anti-papal policy and was a leading spirit in the Rhenser Kurfürstentag. He was later reconciled with the Papacy and in 1346 was a party to the election of Karl IV. He was one of the most powerful German prelates of his day, maintaining claims to the archbishopric of Mainz, and the dioceses of Speyer and Worms, while retaining the archiepiscopal see of Trier.