Jakub Świnka

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Jacobus Swinka
Coat of arms of a line of the Swinka family

Jakub Świnka († March 4, 1314 ) was a Polish clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church and from 1283 Archbishop of Gniezno .

Life

Nothing is known about the exact origin of Jakub Świnka, the names of his parents have not been passed down. He and his brothers Sułek and Jan belonged to a knight family from the heraldic tribe Świnka (German pig ), hence his name. After 12 years of vacancy in the archbishopric, Jakub Świnka was ordained Archbishop of Gniezno on December 19, 1283 by papal nomination . He convened several synods to restore discipline in the archbishopric (1285, 1290, 1298, 1306, 1309), pushed back the influence of foreign (especially German) clergy and promoted the appointment of Poles to church offices. He actively intervened in feuds between the Polish partial duchies and bishops, supported Thomas II , Bishop of Wroclaw, and turned against Johann Muskata , Bishop of Krakow , in the Krakow uprising of Bailiff Albert . In 1295 he crowned Duke Przemysław II of Greater Poland and Pomerellen as King of Poland and after his death in 1300, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia . He then supported Duke Władysław I. Ellenlang of Kujawia in pushing back the Bohemian rule in Poland (1300-1305 / 1306).

literature

  • W. Karasiewicz: Jakób II Świnka, arcybiskup gnieźnieński . Poznan 1948.
  • T. Silnicki, K. Gołąb: Arcybiskup Jakub Świnka i jego epoka . Warsaw 1956.
  • František Graus : The nation formation of the Western Slavs in the Middle Ages Thorbecke, 1980, ISBN 3-7995-6103-X . [1]
  • Thomas Urban : Kraków to Danzig: a journey through German-Polish history. CH Beck, 2000, ISBN 3-406-46766-0 . [2]
  • Wolfgang Wippermann : The religious state as ideology: d. Picture d. German Order in d. German historiography a. Journalism. Colloquium-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 3-7678-0464-6 . [3]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Świnka was against the infiltration of the German-speaking clergy in the Polish Church. In: Jerzy Jan Lerski, Piotr Wróbel, Richard J. Kozicki: Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Greenwood Pub Group, 1996, ISBN 0-313-26007-9 , p. 217.
personal data
SURNAME Świnka, Jakub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Świnka, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Gniezno (1283-1314)
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1314