Gisbert Ketteler

Gisbert Ketteler (* in the 15th century; † 1535 ) was provost in Paderborn and canon in Münster .

Life

Origin and family

Gisbert Ketteler came from the Westphalian noble family Ketteler , from which numerous well-known personalities emerged. He was the son of Gotthard Ketteler zu Neuassen (1450-1518) and his wife Margarethe von Bronckhorst-Batenburg . His siblings were

• Dietrich, ∞ Jutta von Lage, heiress to Lage, founder of the Lage family branch
• Goswin, Burgmann zu Hovestadt , ∞ Clara von Hoberg, Drost zu Oerlinghausen
• Franz , prince abbot in the Corvey monastery
• Anna, Abbess in the Benninghausen Monastery
• Elsabe, ∞ Johann von Merveldt, parents of Canon Gottfried von Merveldt
• Gotthard, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece , ∞ Sybilla von Nesselrode , parents of Bishop Wilhelm Ketteler and the Landmaster of the German Order Georg Ketteler . He was the first Duke of Courland and Zemgale .

Career and work

Gisbert studied at the University of Bologna and became canon in Münster in 1494. In August 1497 it came into the possession of the Archdeaconate of Milte . In March 1507 his parents gave him a severance payment in the form of an annual pension of 200 gold guilders. The cathedral chapter of Paderborn chose him in 1505 to the provost . Its task was to represent the cathedral chapter externally and to manage its property. He remained in this office until his death. He was also the administrator of the Chamber of Commerce of Friesland . On September 4, 1535, shortly after his death, the Münster bishop conferred this important office on Wilbrand Korff gen. Schmising. At the beginning of the 14th century, five parishes near Groningen had placed themselves under the protection of the Bishop of Münster, so that the Frisian areas belonged to the administrative area of ​​the diocese of Münster.

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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 Canons, page 19ff. Digitized.

Web links

• Gisbert Ketteler personal database at Germania Sacra
• Von Ketteler personal database at Germania Sacra
• Anton Fahne : History of the Westphalian families , 1858, p. 246f., Ketteler digitalisat trunk series