Daniel Brendel von Homburg, Archbishop of Mainz from 1555 to 1582, navigated the Archbishopric through some of its most politically treacherous decades — presiding over a territory where Lutheran sympathies had penetrated deeply into the nobility and urban populations while he remained a committed Catholic reformer aligned with the Council of Trent. His goldgulden issues of 1567–68 coincide almost precisely with the period of the second Schmalkaldic tensions and the intensifying confessional divisions that would periodically destabilize the Rhine electoral territories throughout the latter sixteenth century.
MB#74 is a short-dated emission, confined to a single two-year window within his 27-year episcopate.
Daniel Brendel von Homburg, Archbishop of Mainz from 1555 to 1582, navigated the Archbishopric through some of its most politically treacherous decades — presiding over a territory where Lutheran sympathies had penetrated deeply into the nobility and urban populations while he remained a committed Catholic reformer aligned with the Council of Trent. His goldgulden issues of 1567–68 coincide almost precisely with the period of the second Schmalkaldic tensions and the intensifying confessional divisions that would periodically destabilize the Rhine electoral territories throughout the latter sixteenth century.
MB#74 is a short-dated emission, confined to a single two-year window within his 27-year episcopate.