Jens Jakobsson

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Jens Jakobsson (* around 1380 in Denmark, † 1452 in Oslo ) was Bishop of Oslo, Norwegian Chancellor and member of the Norwegian Imperial Council. His parents are unknown. But he carried the coat of arms of the noble Blik family.

Coat of arms of the Blik family, which Jens Jakobsson also carried.

It is believed that he was a deacon and canon in Lund; because he belonged to the closest circle around King Eric of Pomerania and is mentioned in 1418 as his chancellor for Denmark. In this capacity he took part in the negotiations on Schleswig. From 1418 to 1420 he was provost in Roskilde . Then Pope Martin V appointed him Bishop of Oslo without having been elected by the cathedral chapter. This means that he was the candidate the king wanted. However, he did not stay permanently in Oslo and did not take part in the two provincial councils for the Norwegian ecclesiastical province in 1435 and 1436. The diocese was essentially headed by vicars. However, in 1426, 1427 and in the 1430s he made at least four visits to his diocese.

In connection with his appointment as bishop he also became chancellor for Norway, so that the king of Norway could rule over the bishop without being present himself. In this capacity he certified a copy of the Kalmar Union Treaty in Kalundborg in 1425 . But his connection with the king became a problem for Bishop Jens during the riots at the end of the 1430s. During the uprising of 1436 his bishopric was occupied by Amund Sigurdsson Bolt and his men. The bishop was absent at the time. The uprising was directed against the foreign incumbents in Norway and thus also against the Dane Jens Jakobsson. At the same time, the Archbishop of Lund Hans Laxmand demanded that Jens should swap his office with the Norwegian Bishop Torlak in Viborg, as the people do not accept foreign bishops.

In the political disputes within the Norwegian Imperial Council about his relationship with King Erich, Bishop Jens sided with the King and came into sharp opposition to Archbishop Aslak Bolt and the majority of Norwegians. When the king's power had clearly waned in 1439, Jens was deposed as Chancellor. In a letter of August 22, 1440, in which King Erich is announced by the Norwegian Imperial Council that he will be deposed as Norwegian King, Bishop Jens appears as Bishop of Oslo, but Anders Mus, provost of St. Mary's Church in Oslo, already appears as Chancellor. In the 1440s he did not move much in the Imperial Council, but took care of his diocese more intensively and now seems to have stayed permanently in Oslo. When King Christoffer of Bavaria died in 1448, Bishop Jens, together with the fortress captain of Akershus Hartvig Krummedike, campaigned for Christian I as his successor, so that he was elected with a majority of the Imperial Council in 1449.

literature

  • Arne Jakob Misund: Norsk suverenitet under dronning Margrete og Erik av Pommern (1388-1440) . Bergen 2007.
  • Magne Njåstad: Article “Jens Jakobsson” in: Norsk biografisk leksikon , accessed on December 20, 2011.

Individual evidence

The article is essentially taken from the Norsk biografisk leksikon . Any other information is shown separately.

  1. ↑ Misund, p. 38.
  2. ^ William Christensen: Dansk stats forvaltning i det 15. århundre . Copenhagen 1903. p. 97.
  3. ↑ There are two letters from the parishes visited in Diplomatarium Norvegicum, Vol. 9, No. 242 and Vol. IV, No. 829 .
  4. ^ Henry Bruun: "Kalundborgvidissen 1425 af Kalmarunionsbrevet" in: (Dansk) Historisk Tidsskrift , Volume 11. Row 6 (1960 - 1962) 1 p. 524.
  5. ↑ Norges gamle love , 2nd row, vol. 1. Christiania 1912, no.97.
personal data
SURNAME Jens Jakobsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jens Jakobssøn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Oslo, Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Denmark
DATE OF DEATH 1452
Place of death Oslo