Johannes Hinderbach (15 August 1418 – 21 September 1486) was

Prince-Bishop of Trent The Prince-Bishopric of Trent (; ) was an ecclesiastical principality roughly corresponding to the present-day Northern Italian autonomous province of Trentino. It was created in 1027 and existed until 1803, when it was secularised and absorbe ...

from 12 May 1466 until his death. He was by birth a member of the Austrian nobility. Prior to his appointment as Bishop, he served as an advisor to the court of Fredrick III. He was notable for his involvement in the case of

Simon of Trent Simon of Trent (; , also known as ; 1472–1475), also known as Saint Simon (or Simeon) of Trent, was a young boy from the city of Trento, Trent, in the Prince-Bishopric of Trent (now Trentino, Italy), whose disappearance and death were blamed on ...

, a young boy who was found murdered in 1475; Hinderbach blamed the local Jews for his death (see

blood libel Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic canardTurvey, Brent E. ''Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis'', Academic Press, 2008, p. 3. "Blood libel: An accusation of ritual mu ...

), executed fifteen of them, and promoted Simon's canonisation as a saint. The only remnant of Hinderbach's

tomb A tomb ( ''tumbos'') or sepulchre () is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called '' immurement'', alth ...

is a still existing memorial slab, exhibited at the Museo Diocesano Tridentino.

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1418 births 1486 deaths Prince-bishops of Trent 15th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops {{15C-Italy-RC-bishop-stub