Jakob von Bludau

Jakob von Bludau (* before 1318; † January 20, 1358 in Powunden ) was a priest of the Teutonic Order and Bishop of Samland .

Life

Coming from one of the oldest vassal families of the Samland church, who had lived in the village of Bludau (today Russian: Kostrowo) near Fischhausen (Primorsk) since the middle of the 13th century , he gave his brother Sander five Hufen land between Bludau and Geidau (Prosorowo) in 1350. and 1,354 more 20 adjacent acres.

As a priest of the Order he was probably since 1318 canon , 1322 he was domkustos and 1331, again well since 1334, dean of Samland. After the death of the Samland bishop Johann Clare , Jakob von Bludau was taken over by Pope Clemens VI. That the occupation of itself diocese Samland had reserved, appointed to succeed on November 2, 1344 and received in Avignon by Bertrand de Poietto (1327 to 1352), Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Velletri , the episcopal ordination .

On the same day, Clemens VI allowed him. To cover the costs incurred, he took out a loan of 2000  florins , and he was also allowed to pass on the cathedral provost to a candidate of his choice. He promised the payment of the servitia in the amount of 800 florins through the Samland canon and former high master chaplain Heinrich von Waldicke (von Thorn). He paid the sum in June 1345. Bludau returned to Prussia via Marburg, where he gave an indulgence to the Elisabeth Church , and has been attested in his diocese since January 1346 .

He continued the colonization and development of the episcopal land that had begun under his predecessors Siegfried von Regenstein and Johann Clare . After the complete conquest of the land of Nadrauen, the area was divided in November 1352 according to the old division regulation of 1243 between the Teutonic Order and the Samland Church: from the episcopal third to Inster and Pregel in the area of ​​the Georgenburg, which he had probably built earlier, he joined May 1353 the western third to the cathedral chapter. The canons, on the other hand, allowed him to build a granary in the cathedral district.

In September 1352 Bludau assigned the Bishop of Courland , Johann , who had resigned his office after a protracted dispute with the Teutonic Order in Livonia , a plot of land on the Bledauer Beek to build a house.

Little evidence of his spiritual work has been preserved. In December 1348, together with his cathedral chapter, he decided a dispute between the pastor of Königsberg's old town and the cathedral dean over the distribution of the victims in the old town's parish church. The Cistercian Monastery Pelplin in Pomerania he donated twelve marks for reconstruction in 1350 after a fire. In the same year he consecrated the church, the high altar and the cemetery of the Benedictine monastery in Löbenicht zu Königsberg, built by Grand Master Heinrich Dusemer in 1349 .

For better pastoral care of the Prussian population, he divided the extensive parish of Fischhausen in 1352 and built a new parish church in Heiligkreuz (now Russian: Krasnotorowka) . In April 1354 he confirmed the statutes of a newly founded brotherhood of poor priests in Königsberg , in whose cathedral he also found his grave.

literature

• Christian Krollmann: Old Prussian biography . Volume 1, Graefe and Unzer, Königsberg 1941.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Clare	Bishop of Samland 1344-1358	Bartholomew of Radam