Jan Neplach

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Jan Neplach (born February 23, 1322 in Hořiněves near Königgrätz , † probably September 13, 1371 in Opatowitz ) was abbot of the Opatowitz Benedictine monastery , advisor to the king and later emperor Charles IV and Bohemian chronicler .

Life

Jan Neplach came from an East Bohemian Vladiken family . As a pupil of the Benedictine monastery school in Opatowitz, he became a novice in 1332 and took his religious vows in 1334 . Abbot Hroznata z Lipoltic sent him to Bologna in 1339 to study law . In 1347 he sent him to the papal court in Avignon . There he received the news of Hroznata's death in early 1348. Thereupon Pope Clement VI appointed. Jan Neplach as his successor, and he returned to Bohemia.

Immediately after taking office, Neplach had the depraved provost of Wrchlab restored to an orderly condition. As a diplomat and advisor to the king and later emperor Charles IV, Jan Neplach often stayed at the Bohemian royal or imperial court. In 1352 he was a member of the legation that the newly elected Pope Innocent VI. visited on behalf of the king. In 1354 he accompanied Karl to Nuremberg, in 1355 he took part in his imperial coronation. He maintained a trusting relationship with the Archbishop of Prague, Ernst von Pardubitz . He had given Neplach his will, written in 1352, and the record of the miracle he experienced as a boy in the parish church of Glatz for safekeeping. In 1364 Neplach attended the archbishop's funeral in the parish church of Glatz, where he read out the archbishop's documents that he had kept.

Neplach also became known as a chronicler. In the years 1360-1365 the Latin chronicle "Summula chronicae tam Romanae quam Bohemicae" ( Stručné sepsání kroniky řimské a české ), which deals with Bohemian history up to 1346, was created.

Neplach wrote the chronicle at the request of his uncle Martin, who also belonged as a monk to the Opatowitz monastery. Since it is essentially a collection of earlier known Bohemian chronicles, it is not said to be of particular historical value. It was not until the continuation from 1266 that Neplach used an unknown source and brought original reports from his own time. A copy of the chronicle is preserved.

In the sources, the date of his death is sometimes given as January 6, 1368.

Works

  • Iohannis Neplachonis Chronicon: Summula chronicae tam Romanae quam Bohemicae ( Neplacha, Opata Opatovského, Krátká Kronika Česká Římská a Česká ), ed. Josef Emler , in: Fontes Rerum Bohemicarum , Vol. 3, Prague 1882, pp. 451–484. Digitization , transcription

literature

  • Jaroslav Polc: Agnes of Bohemia, (1211–1282). King's daughter, abbess, saint. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1989, ISBN 3-486-55541-3 , pp. 175–176 ( Life pictures for the history of the Bohemian countries 6).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zdeňka Hledíková : Arnošt z Pardubic , Vyšehrad 2008, ISBN 978-80-7021-911-9 , pp. 20, 236 and 238.

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personal data
SURNAME Neplach, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neplach, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot, adviser to Charles IV, Bohemian chronicler of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1322
PLACE OF BIRTH Hořiněves near Königgrätz
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1371
Place of death uncertain: Opatowitz