Bartholomew Querini

Bartholomäus Querini (* before 1287 in Treviso ; † April 3, 1307 in Trento ) was bishop of Castello , Novara and Trento .

Life

He was a descendant of the Querini patrician family from Veneto . He embarked on a church career. Querini became Primicerius of the Chapter of the Basilica di San Marco in 1287 . In 1292 he was nominated for the office of Bishop of Castello , where an uncle of the same name had previously held the office of bishop. After an episcopate of many years, Boniface VIII entrusted him with the diocese of Novara on January 8, 1303 .

In Trento he was on January 10, 1304 after a decision by Pope Benedict XI. used, which fell shortly after the death of Pope Boniface VIII. Bartholomew was immediately involved in the delicate political situation of the bishopric of Trento. Bartholomew's predecessor, Filippo dei Bonacolsi, who came from Mantua, had repeatedly incurred the enmity of the Counts of Tyrol and the Meinhardines , who had consolidated and expanded their rule over the years and took land from the diocese.

Bartholomäus died on April 3, 1307, he was buried in the Cathedral of Trento .

literature

• Carolus Bascapè: Novaria seu de Ecclesia novariensi. Part 2: De episcopis. Novara 1612.
• Carolus Bascapé: La Novara sacra del vescovo Carlo Bescapé (sic). Edited and commented on by Giuseppe Ravizza, Novara 1878.
• CF Frasconi: Schiarimenti e correzioni alla tavola cronologica de 'vescovi di Novara. (Around 1828), ms. pp. 52, in ACSM, FF, XIV / 5.
• L. Cassani (Ed.): Elenco dei vescovi della diocesi di Novara. Novara 1955.
• Iginio Rogger: Bartholomäus Querini († 1307). In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990-2001, pp. 778-779

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bartolomeo Querini ( Memento of October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on Trentino Cultura
2. ↑ Storia della Cattedrale L'interno, accessed on November 1, 2015

predecessor	Office	successor
Papiniano della Rovere	Bishop of Novara 1303-1304	Uguccione dei Borromei
Filippo dei Bonacolsi	Bishop of Trento 1304–1307	Henry III. from Metz