Christoph de Royas y Spinola

Christoph de Royas y Spinola ( Spanish : Cristóbal de Gentil de Rojas y Spinola ; * around 1626 in Geldern , Spanish Netherlands ; † March 12, 1695 in Wiener Neustadt ) was a Flemish-Austrian Franciscan , cameralist and politician and later Bishop of Knin and from Wiener Neustadt.

At the Loccumer Hof in Hanover , as an Irishman , he made a serious attempt to reunite Catholics and Protestants together with the Lutheran abbot Gerhard Wolter Molanus .

literature

• Karin Masser: Christóbal de Gentil de Rojas OFM and the Lutheran abbot Gerardus Wolterius Molanus. A contribution to the history of the Union efforts of the Catholic and Protestant Church in the 17th century (= Reformation history studies and texts; Vol. 145), Münster: Aschendorff 2002, 525 pp., ISBN 3-402-03809-9 ( review as PDF , by Matthias Schnettger Institute for European History, Mainz)
• Solveig Strauch: Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff (1626-1692), Reformation historiography, Reformation of life, self-determination between Lutheran orthodoxy, Pietism and early Enlightenment ; LIT Verlag: Berlin, Hamburg, Münster, 2005, ISBN 3825875571 ; Chapter: Reunionsversuche of the bishop Christoph de Royas y Spinola
• Thomas Gandlau:  Spinola, Christoph de Rojas y. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1010-1013.
• Samuel JT Miller, John P. Spielman, Jr., Cristobal Rojas y Spinola, Cameralist and Irenicist 1626-1695 , Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 52, no. 5 (1962), pp. 1-108
• Alois Knöpfler:  Spinola, Christoph Rojas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 202-204.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Loccumer Hof. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 413f.