Dirslaus von Schwenkfeld

Dirslaus von Schwenkfeld OP (also Dirslaus von Clatensis ; † 1398 ) was a Dominican and auxiliary bishop in Breslau . with the titular bishopric of Clatensis.

Life

Dirslaus, whose coat of arms, with three tombs in the shape of a tomb, indicates that he probably belonged to the Silesian noble family Schwenkfeld, joined the Dominican order. It is possible that he was related to the inquisitor Johann Schwenkfeld, who was murdered in Prague in 1342 , who was also a Dominican and came from the Schweidnitz convent .

It is not known when Dirslaus was appointed auxiliary bishop in Breslau. Episcopal acts by him are first documented for the year 1365 in the Dominican monastery in Opole . There he consecrated the St. Adalbert Church and the elders as well as the cloister on the feast day of the Assumption of Mary . He carried out the same ordinations on October 9, 1371 in the Rabibor Dominican monastery. In 1372 and 1375 he held the pontifical office in Breslau Cathedral on Maundy Thursday , during which the public penitents were accepted back into the church. In 1376 he was a member of an episcopal commission that had to settle a dispute in Frankenstein between the pastor Peter and the prior Jakobus from the Dominican monastery. In 1390 he gave the cleric Simon in Briesen near Brieg the minor orders . Dirslaus died in 1398 and was buried in St. Adalbert's Church in Breslau.

literature

• Joseph Jungnitz : The auxiliary bishops of Breslau . Verlag von Franz Goerlich, Breslau 1914. pp. 31–34