Bitter von Raesfeld (Canon, 1581)

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Bitter von Raesfeld (* 1520 ; † July 1, 1581 in Münster ) was canon in Worms , Paderborn and Münster .

Life

Origin and family

Bitter von Raesfeld came from the Westphalian noble family von Raesfeld , from which numerous well-known personalities emerged. Its members belonged to the Catholic faith . He was the son of Arnd von Raesfeld zu Hamern (* 1479, † 1567) and his wife Petronella von Merveldt († 1534). His siblings were Bernhard von Raesfeld (Prince-Bishop of Münster), the Münster canons Gottfried , Heinrich , Arnd and Dietrich Franz , Johann (* 1509, ∞ Katharina von dem Berge), Anna (* 1510, Nun zu Überwasser), Bertra (1512– 1548, ∞ Wilhelm von Büren), Elisabeth (* 1515, Kanonisse in Recklinghausen), Goswin (* 1518, ∞ Elisabeth von dem Berge, sister of his sister-in-law Katharina), Ludger (* 1526–1503, Drost zu Wolbeck and Sassenberg) and Franz (* 1528, Canon of Mainz and Osnabrück).

Act

After waiving his brother Gottfried Bitter received in 1552 stipend at the collegiate St. Mauritz and on October 31, 1558, a Münstersche Dompräbende . His emancipation fell in 1559. In 1567 he renounced the prebend in St. Mauritz in favor of his cousin Bitter . He is also mentioned as a canon in Paderborn and Worms and as the owner of the archdeaconates Lichtenvoorde, Roxel, Vreden and Neede. On August 19, 1576 he took possession of the Hiddingsel obedience . Bitter died of the rampant plague . In his - undated - will he bequeathed part of his fortune to his siblings and relatives as well as his daughter Gertrud and her mother, the maid Katharina Tegeler, with whom he had lived in cohabitation . His son Bitter of the same name was also considered.

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  • The diocese of Münster 4.2. ( Germania Sacra NF 17.2) The Cathedral Monastery of St. Paulus in Münster , edited by Wilhelm Kohl, published by the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen, Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin / New York, ISBN 978- 3-11-008508-2 , Germania Sacra NF 17.2 Biographies of the Canons, page 19ff. Digitized.
  • Hermann Degering : Gottfried von Raesfeld. His gender, his life and his will. In: From the intellectual life and work in Westphalia. Festschrift for the opening of the new building of the Royal University Library in Münster (Westphalia) on November 3, 1906. Münster 1906, pp. 137–250. Digitized

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SURNAME Raesfeld, bitter from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon in various dioceses
DATE OF BIRTH 1520
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1581
Place of death Muenster