Bogislaw VIII. (Pomerania)

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Seal of Duke Bogislaw VIII. From 1403 - redrawing by FA Vossberg 1854

Bogislaw VIII (around 1364 - February 11, 1418 ) was Duke of Pomerania-Stolp and administrator in the diocese of Cammin .

Life

Bogislaw was the eldest son of Duke Bogislaw V († before April 24, 1374) from his second marriage to Adelheid, daughter of Duke Ernst I of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen .

After his father's death, Bogislaw was under the tutelage of his stepbrother Duke Casimir IV until 1377. After his death, he and his brothers Wartislaw VII and Barnim V jointly sought government over the paternal inheritance of Wolgast on the other side of the Swine .

As a younger son, he could have become a cleric at an early age , but without having received the higher ordinations . In any case, in 1391 he renounced a canonical and a preamble as well as the archdeaconate in the "banni orientalis" of the Halberstadt church.

Head of the diocese of Cammin

When King Wenceslas his chancellor Johann Brun for Bishop of Pomerania appointed, the saw Camminer Domkapitel threatened in its independence. The chapter had already chosen one of his fellow clergymen, Johann Wilkins (also: Johann Wilken von Köslin ) for this position.

Therefore, the canons concluded a contract with Bogislaw on August 24, 1387 at Cammin, which made him hereditary guardian of the monastery. Bogislaw received for the pin towns and castles Kolobrzeg , Koszalin , Körlin , Massow , Tarnhusen , Pollnow , Bublitz and Zanow and the right to redeem the pledged goods and pen to the refund of the deposit Schillings also the usufruct of the same to. In a second contract, which was signed on December 7, 1387 between the cathedral chapter and Bogislaw's brothers, Bogislaw's rights vis-à-vis the chapter were defined and he was appointed administrator for the duration of the absence of the bishop who was in Rome. When Bishop Johann, who had not recognized Bogislaw's administrative dignity, died soon after Johanni in 1394 in Rome after his office was finally confirmed , Bogislaw succeeded him as Bishop of Cammin.

In the same year Bogislaw's older brother, Wartislaw VII died, so that Bogislaw now ruled the duchy in addition to the administration of the monastery. The management of the monastery was challenged by the opposing bishop Johann Herzog von Oppeln , who was elected by part of the chapter , but without success. At the beginning of 1398 Bogislaw resigned from the diocese, made himself worldly and married Sophia, daughter of Duke Heinrich the Iron of Holstein. Nikolaus von Schippenbeil , previously Bishop of Kulm, followed him in the episcopal chair .

Sovereign

Disagreement with his brother Barnim V led to a division of the country brokered by the estates of the Duchy of Pomerania-Stolp in 1402, according to which one third was eliminated, while the remaining two thirds Bogislaw and his nephew Erich , son of Wartislaw VII, remain in joint government should; Barnim's early death prevented the implementation of this partition plan. Bogislaw now saw himself in possession of the entire rule, but was involved in a dispute with the diocese of Cammin that lasted the rest of his life , because Bishop Nikolaus demanded the church property redeemed through this during the ducal administration without wanting to pay the pawnschilling beforehand according to the contract. When Bogislaw refused, the bishop went to Rome personally for clarification and, before leaving, entrusted the Grand Master of the German order , to which he himself belonged, with the administration and protection of the Stiftslande. On May 14, 1406, he threatened the Duke from Cörlin with a papal ban bull . When Bogislaw was not frightened by this, after the bishop's return in 1408, he and his entire territory were given the interdict .

The Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen did not find it in his interest to take harsh measures against Bogislaw, since he needed his support against Poland and in 1409 obliged him to do so through a loan. Bogislaw, however, distrusted the order as a dangerous neighbor, withheld his help and did not take part in the Battle of Tannenberg on July 15, 1410, in which Poland triumphed over the order. For this he was rewarded by the Polish King Władysław II. Jagiełło with several border countries formerly belonging to the order, but in whose possession he only remained until the peace concluded on February 1, 1411 between Poland and the order in Thorn . On the other hand, soon after the Battle of Tannenberg, Bogislaw attacked Bishop Nikolaus, who was no longer protected by the order, fell into his area, took Cörlin by night raid and burned it, so that the bishop had to flee to Prussia and died soon afterwards.

The new bishop of Cammin was Magnus von Sachsen-Lauenburg in 1410 , who made the same claims against Bogislaw. He went personally to the council in Costnitz and achieved that Bogislaw, who had resisted the harshest ecclesiastical censorship and submitted an appeal against the first decision, was banned from the papal to surrender the monastery property and to pay the procedural costs of 40,000 Guilder was convicted. Before this second judgment was published, however, Bogislaw died in March / April 1418 and, although banned, was buried with ecclesiastical honors in the cathedral at Cammin . Bogislaw left a son, Bogislaw IX. who only settled the dispute with the church through a settlement in 1436.

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SURNAME Bogislaw VIII.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bogislav VIII.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH around 1364
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1418