Clemens Grote

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Clemens Grote (* in Lübeck ; † on September 8 , 1542 or earlier there) was a German Canon.

Life

Clemens Grote studied at the University of Rostock from Easter 1499 . He received his bachelor's degree in the winter semester 1500/1501 and his master's degree in the winter semester 1502/1503 . From 1507 he is documented as a master and Lübeck cleric working in Rome . During this time he was the family member of a cardinal priest of San Pietro in Vincoli from the Italian noble family della Rovere , i.e. a nephew of Pope Julius II, and requested a canonical there in 1511 at Lübeck Cathedral . In the following years he was actively involved in the trade in benefices in Rome . In 1518 and 1520 he worked for the Lübeck bishop Johannes VIII. Grimholt as procurator in Rome; in Rome he also represented the interests of the Ratzeburg cathedral chapter against the dukes of Mecklenburg . According to the notebook left behind by Thomas Giese from Lübeck , who was also active in the trade with benefices in Rome, Grote and Giese came into closer business contact in Rome from 1520. Both helped each other financially. Grote probably returned to northern Germany in the fall of 1520 and contact between the two broke up until 1525, when Giese sent Grote documents for a legal dispute.

From 1515 Grote was canon of the collegiate monastery in Eutin , the residence of the Lübeck bishops, and from 1519 canon in Ratzeburg . 1523 became Grote Canon at the Hamburg Cathedral and 1524 Cathedral Dean of the Hamburg Chapter. As such he was in close contact with the dean of the Lübeck chapter Johannes Brandes because of the incipient pre-Reformation religious controversies. As an unconditional advocate of the old doctrine for the Hamburg chapter, he led three trials before the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer . After the Reformation was introduced in Hamburg, he withdrew to Lübeck with the treasures of the cathedral and the documents as Lübeck canon and provost of the Eutin Collegiate Foundation, where he can still be documented in documents until 1540. In 1542 he is mentioned as dead. Clemens Grote was buried in Lübeck Cathedral, where his coat of arms grave slab has been described, but is currently undetectable.

literature

  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 703/704 (LÜDO300)
  • Christiane Schuchard, Knut Schulz: Thomas Giese from Lübeck and his Roman notebook from 1507 to 1526 . Lübeck 2003, pp. 18-22

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The memorial books of Lübeck Cathedral from this period only record the day of death, not the year
  2. ↑ Entry 1499 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Grote, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Canon
DATE OF BIRTH before 1499
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: September 8, 1542
Place of death Lübeck