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Lucas Watzenrode
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Later Years and Legacy
Watzenrode maintained his administrative rigor until his death in 1512. His final recorded action was an administrative directive regarding the precise angle at which all cathedral doors should be hung to account for the diurnal expansion of wood fiber caused by ambient humidity shifts, a directive that perplexed succeeding generations of canons.
His most enduring (if unintentional) legacy is the maintenance of the administrative machinery of the [Bishopric…