Erik Valkendorf

Erik Valkendorf (* 1465 in Denmark , † November 28, 1522 in Rome ) was the penultimate Catholic archbishop in Norway .

Valkendort enrolled at the University of Greifswald in 1491 , where he obtained the degree of Baccalaureus the following year . He was later ordained a priest and also obtained a master's degree. In the 1490s he was employed by Danske Kancelli and from 1499 he was a close confidante of Crown Prince Duke Christian as secretary . After the death of Archbishop Gaute Ivarsson in 1510, the cathedral chapter initially elected Jens Krabbe as his successor, but the duke and his father, King John I , succeeded in obtaining Valkendorf's appointment as Archbishop of Nidaros from the Pope . Valkendorf received episcopal ordination in Rome and took possession of his archbishopric in 1511. In 1514 he crowned Christian King of Norway. He particularly promoted the liturgy and had the first books for Norway printed in 1519 with the Missale Nidrosiense and the Breviarium Nidrosiense . After a visitation trip to Finnmark , he wrote a description of this landscape (only printed in the 20th century).

In 1521 there was a conflict between him and the king who wanted to curtail ecclesiastical power. Valkendorf entrusted Olav Engelbrektsson , the dean of the cathedral chapter to Nidaros, the direction of his diocese and traveled to Denmark. A storm drove him as far as Amsterdam , where he had a violent argument with King Christian. He traveled on to Rome to present the matter to Pope Leo X , but did not arrive until shortly after his death. Even before there was an audience with his successor Hadrian VI. came, Valkendorf died.

Fonts

• KH Karlsson, G. Storm (Ed.): Finmarkens beskrivelse. In: Aarbog for Det norske geografiske selskab 12, 1900–01, pp. 1–23.

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predecessor	Office	successor
Gaute Ivarsson	Archbishop of Nidaros 1510–1522	Olav Engelbrektsson