Bohuslaus of Zwole

Bohuslaus von Zwole ( Czech Bohuslav (Bohuš) ze Zvole ; † July 31, 1457 ) was Bishop of Olomouc .

Life

Bohuslaus came from a Moravian knight family. His father, Markwart von Zwole, was the brother of the Olomouc Bishop Konrad von Zwole .

As early as 1431 Bohuslaus received a canonical in the collegiate chapter of St. Peter in Brno , where he also became provost . From 1439 he studied in Vienna and received his doctorate as Dr. iur. utr. He then became pastor in Jamnitz and in 1447 canon and vicar general in Olomouc, where he is proven as an official for 1446 and in 1451 became chapter dean. He also owned canons in Salzburg, St. Stephan in Vienna and the Holy Cross in Breslau .

After the death of the Olomouc bishop John XIII. Haes was elected Bohuslaus von Zwole as his successor. The papal confirmation of August 16, 1454 was followed by episcopal ordination on January 12, 1455 in the Johanneskirche in Breslau .

The one with the compacts obligation assumed, even Utraquist priest candidates, the ordination be granted Bohuslaus to have met. In 1455, King Ladislaus Postumus Bohuslaus von Zwole and the Moravian governor , the Utraquist Jan Tovačovský von Cimburg and another baron transferred the Moravian state administration.

After Pope Kalixt III. On September 16, 1455, King Ladislaus asked to return the episcopal city of Kremsier, which had been pledged to the Hussites by Emperor Sigismund and King Albrecht, and King Bohuslaus of Zwole authorized the redemption of the episcopal goods. Bohuslaus succeeded in repurchasing Kremsier in 1456, but due to the ongoing financial difficulties he soon had to mortgage the town again.

literature

• Winfried Eberhard, in: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448-1648. ISBN 3-428-08422-5 , p. 777.

predecessor	Office	successor
John XIII Haes	Bishop of Olomouc 1454–1457	Protasius of Boskowitz and Černahora