Henning Rose

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Henning Rose ( bl. 1512 - 1532 in Hildesheim ) was a Benedictine of the St. Michael Abbey in Hildesheim in the first third of the 16th century. He prepared several documents that are considered forgeries in the interest of increasing the importance of his home monastery.

Life and writings

Sheet 7r of Henning Rose's forged Vita divi Bennonis

Nothing is known about Henning Rose's life apart from the key data documented in the Michaelskloster. It is attested for the last time on January 29, 1532.

An anonymous Vita divi Bennonis episcopi ecclesie Misnensis is proven to be his main work . It can be found in a composite manuscript, which also contains a list of brotherhoods in prayer from Michael's monastery and a list of goblets of St. Bernward . This vita offers numerous biographical details that are not known from any other source. All serve the goal of promoting Benno's canonization , which was carried out at the time (1523) and at the same time to bring the new saint into close contact with Hildesheim and the Michael's monastery. In this direction, in addition to corresponding miracle reports, the claims that Benno was a relative and student of Bernwards († 1022) - from which his date of birth "around 1010" and his death age of 96 years resulted - and that he was Abbot of St. Michael officiated. Both are now considered to be a free invention of Rose. It is noticeable that Rose used old paper and deliberately wrote in an archaic written form that was not consistently maintained. The facts asserted by Rose were then taken over by Hieronymus Emser in his Benno-Vita, printed in 1512, and thus achieved widespread use and validity until today.

Another forgery of roses is a privilege of indulgence for St. Michael, the Pope Silvester II in 1001 in Rome Emperor Otto III. and is said to have handed over to Bishop Bernward personally.

literature

  • Martina Giese : Fabulous Vita Bennonis from St. Michael in Hildesheim . In: Claudia Kunde and André Thieme (eds.): A treasure not from gold. Benno von Meissen. Saxony's first saint (exhibition catalog). Petersberg (Hessen) 2017, p. 317
  • Söhnke Thalmann: Henning Rose and the forged letter of indulgence from Pope Silvester II (1001) for St. Michael in Hildesheim . In: Sabine Arend (Ed.): Diversity and topicality of the Middle Ages: Festschrift for Wolfgang Petke for his 65th birthday . Bielefeld 2006, pp. 653-677

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Giese
  2. ↑ Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Clm 27045. The manuscript came to Munich in the course of Benno's reliquary translation in 1576 (Giese).
  3. ↑ Emser refers to Rose's writing as “antiquissimus unbekannt vitae suae libellus” - “that ancient little book about his life” (Giese).
  4. ^ Text and commentary in: Josef Dolle: Papal documents in Lower Saxony and Bremen until 1198 . Göttingen 2019, pp. 120–121
personal data
SURNAME Rose, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictines in Hildesheim, forgers
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1532