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Karl Kaspar von der Leyen

Field	Value
type	Archbishop
name	Karl Kaspar von der Leyen
title	Archbishop of Trier
image	Karl Kaspar von der Leyen.jpg
caption	Karl von der Leyen Kaspar, engraving from a coronation leaflet from the year 1658
church	Catholic Church
diocese	Electorate of Trier
term	1652–1676
ordination	1 September 1641 (Deacon)
10 September 1652 (Priest)
consecration	September 1652
consecrated_by	Otto von Senheim
birth_date	18 December 1618
death_date	1 June 1676 (aged 57)

| honorific-prefix = 10 September 1652 (Priest)

Karl Kaspar von der Leyen (18 December 1618 – 1 June 1676) was Archbishop-Elector of Trier and a Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1652 to 1676.

Life

A member of the noble Leyen family, Charles Kaspar was made a coadjutor bishop on 11 June 1650. He was elected the successor of the then 86-year-old Archbishop Philipp Christoph von Sötern, but this was rejected as Philipp Christoph was the favoured candidate.

He founded an orphanage for boys in Trier and endowed scholarships for the training of nobles' sons to become priests, and in 1668, he had the Kurtrierische Landrecht ("Electoral-Trier Common Law") published.

Charles Kaspar promoted, in particular, the members of his aristocratic house, Von der Leyen (House of the Leyens).

In 1654 he made his younger brother Damian Hartard von der Leyen the Archbishop of Mainz and Provost and Archdeacon of Karden, titles under the Archbishopric of Trier.

Aware as he was of his declining health, he had already named his successor, his nephew John Hugo of Orsbeck, by 1672. He died on 1 June 1676 in Schloss Philippsburg below the Ehrenbreitstein fortress.

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