Goswinus Grope

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Seal of Goswinus Grope as Bishop of Evelone

Goswinus Grope OP (* in Lübeck ; † after 1368) was prior in the Dominican monastery in Lübeck in 1353 , from 1359 titular bishop of Evelone (Abilone) and is attested by auxiliary bishop files in the dioceses of Cammin and Schwerin .

Life

Bishop Goswinus carried the family name Grope, a family in Lübeck since the 13th century. The family name is probably derived from Grapen . His sister was the mother of the mayor of Lübeck, Johann Wittenborg , who was executed in 1363 and who included his uncle in his will. The bishop was referred to several times as Goswinus de Lubecke .

Goswin was a Dominican, and it can be assumed with certainty that he made it up to prior in the Lübeck convent before he achieved episcopal dignity on January 11, 1359. The titular bishopric is unclear; Grope was probably titular bishop of Aulon . In the will of Johann Wittenborg he was referred to as Episcopo Encloyensis and in his wife's will, written in 1367, as her confessor frati Nicoao priori in urbe , the prior of the castle monastery, and given a legacy.

His sphere of activity was initially the diocese of Cammin : he consecrated the main altar of the village church in Groß Methling (today part of Dargun ) on an unknown date (probably around 1360 ).

Bishop Goswin also worked in the diocese of Schwerin . On June 4, 1368, he participated in the inauguration of the Doberan monastery church and the awarding of indulgences at the Holy Blood Chapel. In the document he was named first before other high clergy by the Schwerin bishop Friedrich II. Von Bülow with full episcopal title as reverendissimus in Christo pater et dominus Gozwinus Evelonensis ecclesie episcopus .

Further pontifical acts for Bishop Goswin in the dioceses of Cammin and Schwerin cannot be proven. When and where he died and the place of his burial are not known.

seal

In the pointed oval seal stands a bishop in the middle of the richly developed high Gothic niche building under the canopy. His right hand is raised in blessing, in his left hand he holds the bishop's staff with the crook turned outwards. On both sides there is a coat of arms with three heads in front of the pillars , perhaps the family coat of arms.

The legible inscription reads: SIGILLUM FRATRIS GOSW (INI DEI GRATIA ... RA) EPISCOPIE EVELONENSIS:

When the dilapidated village church in Groß Methling , now a part of Dargun , was demolished, pieces of parchment that were very destroyed were found in 1890 as remains of the church's consecration certificate and a seal with crumbled inscription. Pastor Theodor Kittel presented the seal to the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin .

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The church village Gross Methling . In: Art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . I. Volume 1896, ISBN 3-910179-05-3 , pp. 574-577.
  • Konrad Eubel : Hierachia catholica medii aevi . Volume I. 1913, Monasterii (Unchanged reprint: Patavii / Italy 1960)
  • Josef Traeger : Goswinus Grope, OP, Bishop of Evelone. Chapter II. Auxiliary Bishops. In: The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin. St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984, pp. 193-195.
  • Jürgen Reetz: Two remarkable 14th century Lübeck clergymen: Hinricus de Culmine and Goswinus Grope. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Antiquity, Volume 56 (1976) pp. 107–111

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ With Carl Wilhelm Pauli in volume 3 of the treatises from the Lübischen law (1841), p. 357 ff. (Digitized version)
  2. ↑ Konrad Eubel: Sources and research from the Dominican order . 1904 issue 4. No. 15.
  3. ↑ Konrad Eubel: Hierachia catholica medii aevi . Volume I., 1913 p. 20 f.
  4. ↑ Konrad Eubel: Hierachia catholica medii aevi. Volume I., 1913 p. 65 .; so also Reetz (lit.)
  5. ↑ Hans Bütow: To the Kamminer auxiliary bishops . In: Monthly sheets of the society for Pomeranian history and antiquity . 1938, p. 122.
  6. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch MUB Volume 16 (1893) No. 9794.
  7. ↑ Herrmann Grotefend: Find in the church of Gr. Methling . In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher Volume 55 (1890) p. 287.
personal data
SURNAME Grope, Goswinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Titular Bishop of Evelone (Abilone), prior in the Dominican monastery in Lübeck and auxiliary bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH after 1368