Friedrich Schencking

Friedrich Schencking (* in the 15th century in Münster ; † 1518 in Münster) was canon in Münster .

Life

Career and work

Friedrich Schencking came from the Münster hereditary family Schenckinck. For centuries, the Schenckings and the other patrician families of Münster provided the members of the city council, mayors and city judges. He was the son of Johann Schencking zu Bevern and his wife Irmgard von Senden. His brother Heinrich was a cathedral sexton in Münster. On March 11, 1518 Friedrich became canon in Münster and Osnabrück . On April 22, 1518 he was appointed executor of his brother Heinrich's will. After Friedrich's death, the canon Johann Morrien came into the possession of the prebende.

Hereditary dispute

The cathedral chapter had issued a statute in 1392, in which it had its more than a century-old custom of only admitting descendants of noblemen confirmed by the Pope. Hereditary men were already members of the cathedral chapter in earlier times, but in the course of time the occupation of the collegiate chapters in Westphalia (and in the Old Kingdom) by non-mercenary nobles and " knightly citizens ", each with the approval of the Emperor and Pope So did not knightly applicants for centuries had no prospect of filling the post of canon . Johann Schencking received in 1557, when all the remaining hereditary families had long since passed over to the landed gentry, from Pope Paul IV. A commission for a cathedral patron from Münster . The conventionally composed cathedral chapter and the estates represented in it brought an action against this decision at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer in 1597 . A dispute followed, which dragged on for centuries. Johann Kerckerinck and members of the Schencking family were spokesmen in this dispute, which lasted until January 10, 1710, when Emperor Joseph I as the highest judicial authority (initially) decided in favor of the Erbmämmer. The cathedral chapter and knighthood did not recognize the emperor's decision because it came about without the participation of the Reichstag and therefore violated the imperial constitution. They delayed obeying the judgment until October 30, 1715. On this day, Emperor Charles VI met. the final binding decision in this lengthy process.

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• The diocese of Münster 4.2. ( Germania Sacra NF 17.2) The Cathedral Monastery of St. Paulus in Münster , edited by Wilhelm Kohl, published by the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen, Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin / New York, ISBN 978- 3-11-008508-2 , Germania Sacra NF 17.2 Biographies of the Canon

Web links

• Friedrich Schencking personal database at Germania Sacra
• Schencking personal database at Germania Sacra