Jacob Nielsen Kyrning
Jacob Nielsen Kyrning († January 23, 1361 in Hammershus ) was Archbishop of Lund from 1355 to 1361 .
Life
He was the son of Niels Andersen Kyrning from Skåne from a knight family Thott and his first wife Christine. He became a canon in Lund and studied in Paris around 1344 . In 1355 he was elected Archbishop of Lund. When he then traveled to Avignon to receive the pallium , Duke Bengt Algotsson, governor in Skåne, confiscated the entire estate of the archbishopric. Bengt Algotsson was the favorite of King Magnus II. In the conflict between the son Erikand the father Magnus, Erik allied himself with the nobility and drove the duke out of power, and the archbishopric got its possessions back. During the conflict between father and son, the archbishop became a partisan of Erik. When there was a settlement between the two on April 28, 1357 in Jønkøping, Erik was given Finland and part of the Danish territories as a domain. The archbishop then turned back to his father Magnus. For reasons that have not yet been clarified, King Erik attacked the Archbishop in Åhus on the night of February 4th to 5th, 1358 , barely a month after he had declared war on King Waldemar Atterdag . The archbishop was soon released. In 1360 Pope Innocent VI sent. two apostolic administrators . The reasons given were the frequent absence of the archbishop and the large debts of the diocese into which the archbishop had plunged the diocese. In addition, a papal letter was sent to one of the two administrators, in which he was requested to summon the archbishop to the papal curia because of his violent actions against the provost Niels Axelsen . A few months later, after he probably became aware of the summons, he died of the plague in Hammershus.
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| SURNAME | Kyrning, Jacob Nielsen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Archbishop of Lund |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1344 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1361 |
| Place of death | Hammershus |