Eggert Dürkop

Eggert Dürkop , also Ekkehard Dürkop , Egerdus Durcop , Eggert Durkop , Eggert Durecopp and Eggert Durkoep (* before 1459; † November 6, 1499 in Rome ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman and from 1489 until his death Bishop of Schleswig .

Life

Little is known about Eggert Dürkop's origins. He probably came from Hildesheim or Minden . On March 29, 1470 Egherdus Dirkep was awarded his doctorate in Canon Law ( doctor decretorum ) at the University of Ferrara . In the 1480s he was procurator at the Roman Curia in Rome .

In 1487 he became an auditor at the Roman Rota . He was the only German who held this office before the Reformation and is considered to be the most influential German curial of his time ; He served several times as a middleman in filling vacancies and beneficiary exchange transactions. In 1493 he appeared in a papal document as the advocate of the Merseburg canon Günther von Bünau , later Bishop of Samland , and was a sponsor of the Frauenburg canon Bernhard Sculteti . Eggert Dürkop himself was the owner of a grand prebende and thesaurary at Lübeck Cathedral , in 1489 cathedral provost at Minden cathedral , since 1481 canon and 1497 cathedral dean at Hildesheim cathedral .

In April 1489, Pope Innocent VIII appointed him bishop of the diocese of Schleswig - against the opposition of a majority in the cathedral chapter , which had elected Enevold Sövenbröder , who was also favored by the Danish king Johann, as bishop. His opponents accused him of simony . Among them was u. a. the Canon Levo Leve .

Pope Alexander VI 1492 occupied Sövenbröder and the canons who supported him with the excommunication , whereupon they gave in. Dürkop came to Schleswig in 1493 and tried to establish himself between 1494 and 1496. In 1495 he consecrated the St. Nikolai Church in Kotzenbüll . However, he was unable to gain recognition from the cathedral chapter and the nobility, nor to get the bishopric in Schwabstedt pledged to the royal bailiff Hans Rantzau and his income. Apparently he even fatally wounded a nobleman in an argument. He returned to Rome, where he again worked as a judge at the Rota from 1497, died in 1499 and was buried in Santa Maria dell'Anima . His Lübeck prebend went to Bernhard Sculteti.

literature

• EF Mooyer: On the chronology of Schleswig bishops. In: Yearbooks for regional studies in the duchies of Schleswig. Volume 2, 1859, p. 15 ff (p. 39/40) ( digitized version )
• Christian Radtke: Dürkop, Eggert. In: Erwin Gatz (ed.), With the assistance of Clemens Brodkorb: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448 to 1648. A biographical encyclopedia. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08422-5 , p. 139 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Giuseppe Pardi: . Titoli dottorali conferiti dallo studio di Ferrara nei sec XV e XVI. A. Marchi, Lucca 1900, p. 50
2. ↑ Most of the biographical information on Dürkop is provided by Johannes Burckard's Liber notarum , in addition to the papal documents , see the entry Egerdus Durcop in the Repertorium Officiorum Romanae Curiae ( Memento of the original from 6 July 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Christoph Volkmar: Reform instead of Reformation: the church policy of Duke George of Saxony, 1488-1525. ( Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation ISSN  1865-2840 41) Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2008 ISBN 9783161494093 , p. 134
4. ^ Wilhelm Ernst Christiani : History of the Duchies of Schleswig and Hollstein. Volume 1. Kiel 1781, p. 149.
5. ↑ Richard Haupt: The buildings and art monuments of the province of Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 1, Kiel 1887, p. 210
6. ^ Wilhelm Ernst Christiani: History of the Duchies of Schleswig and Hollstein , Volume 1. Kiel 1781, p. 172.
7. ↑ Repertorium Officiorum Romanae Curiae ( Memento of the original of July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Enevold Sövenbröder	Bishop of Schleswig 1489–1499	Juan de Castro (Apostolic Administrator)