Diogo Ortiz de Vilhegas

Diogo Ortiz de Vilhegas (Spanish: Diego Ortiz de Villegas ; * 1457 in Calzadilla , † 1519 in Almeirim ) is a Portuguese cosmographer , theologian and bishop of Spanish origin.

Life

Diego Ortiz de Villegas, born in 1457 in Calzadilla, Castilian, as the son of Alfonso Ortiz de Villegas from Toledo and Maria da Silva, is called Diogo Ortiz de Vilhegas in Portuguese or " Calçadilha " in Portuguese after his place of birth . In 1476 he came from Salamanca to Portugal and accompanied the Castilian Crown Princess Joanna of Castile , the bride for Alfonso V , the king (1438-1481) , as confessor . In Portugal, Diogo Ortiz became the Latin teacher of Alfons V's son, Crown Prince Johann. After he became King John II (1481–1495), he entrusted his former teacher and tutor Diogo Ortiz in 1481/82 with the priory of the Augustinian monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon .

As Bishop of Tangier (1491–1500), Diogo Ortiz preached in 1495 at the funeral of John II in the Batalha monastery , where Alfonso V had also found his final resting place. From 1495 to 1496 he was chief chaplain for Don Manuel, the brother son of Alfonso V, who became King Manuel I (1495-1521). On March 8, 1500, Diogo Ortiz celebrated a solemn pontifical mass in honor of Our Lady of Belém in the presence of King Manuel I and his court in honor of Our Lady of Belém and also gave the solemn sermon for the seamen of the fleet under the leadership of Pedro Álvares Cabral , which set out for India the following day .

As bishop (1500–1505) of the North African Ceuta , which belonged to Portugal from 1415 to 1580, Diogo Ortiz published his "Cathecismo Pequeno" on July 20, 1504 in Lisbon and dedicated it to King Manuel I. As Bishop of Viseu (1505-1519), Diogo Ortiz was responsible for the humanistic education of the Crown Prince and later King John III. (1521–1557) responsible. Diogo Ortiz died in January / February 1519 in Almeirim near Santarém, where he was buried in the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria da Serra.

Act

Born in Spain, Ortiz exerted great influence on four kings of Portugal between 1476 and 1519 as a cosmographer, theologian and bishop but also as court preacher, educator and advisor. Together with Mestre Rodrigo and José Vizinho he created the nautical chart for the Portuguese Indian explorer Pêro da Covilhã (around 1447 – around 1500), and as a member of a commission appointed by John II, he has the offer of the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus , India on the west Reached by sea, checked in 1483. When this Portuguese commission rejected the proposed discovery plans, Columbus went to Spain in 1484 and found the support of the Spanish royal couple there. The catechism for the ignorant in 50 chapters , written by Diogo Ortiz as Bishop of Ceuta and published in Lisbon in 1504 , is the first catechetical manual in the history of Christianity to be titled Cathecismo . As Bishop of Viseu, he restored his episcopal church from 1513, had the vault ribs made as ship ropes with knots, and consecrated the Cathedral of Viseu again in June 1516.

Works

• Cathecismo Pequeno da doctrina & instruiçam que os christaãos ham de creer & obrar pera conseguir a benauenturança eterna feito & copilado pollo reuerendissimo señor dom Dioguo ortiz bispo de çepta. Emprimido com priuilegio del Rey nosso senhor etc. Lisboa 1504
• Historia passionis Domini Iesu. Lisbonae (posthumous) 1542;

literature

• Alexandre de Lucena e Vale: O Bispo de Viseu D. Diogo Ortiz de Vilhegas. O Cosmógrafo de D. João II. Oficinas da Sociedade Editorial Pátria, Gaia 1934.
• Antonio de Seixas Néri: O Catecismo de D. Diogo Ortiz de Vilhegas. Subsídios para o estudo da Igreja em Portugal nas vésperas do Concílio de Trento. Dissertação. Postage 1971
• Elsa Maria Branco da Silva: O cathecismo pequeno de D. Diogo Ortiz, Bispo de Viseu. Estudo literário e edição crítica. Edições Colibri, Lisboa 2001, ISBN 972-772-276-8 ( Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa. Literatura Medieval 115), ( Also : Lisboa, Univ., Diss., 1997).
• Gerhard J. Bellinger : The first Cathecismo from 1504 and its author Diogo Ortiz de Vilhegas. In: Communio et sacramentum. En el 70 cumpleaños del Prof Dr. Pedro Rodríguez. Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona 2003, ISBN 84-8081-011-4 , pp. 201-219 ( Biblioteca de Teología 28).
• Gerhard J. Bellinger:  Diogo Ortiz de Vilhegas. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 1036-1040.