John II of Dražice

Johann II von Dražice (also: Johann von Draschitz ; † August 17, 1236 probably in Prague ) was Bishop of Prague .

Life

Johann came from the Lower Bohemian noble family von Dražice . He was a scholaster from 1212 and chancellor of the Prague cathedral chapter from 1216 . Although he is said to have served the king and the Bohemian Church for decades, little is known about him.

After the death of Bishop Budilov in Rome in 1226, Johann was elected as his successor by the members of the Prague cathedral chapter who were present there. After his return he was checked in 1227 by papal order by the Passau bishop Gebhard von Plain . The episcopal ordination took of Mainz Metropolitan Siegfried of Eppstein and the bishops Friedrich von Kirchberg from Halberstadt and Albert of Bekeshovede from Riga on 19 December 1227 in Erfurt's St. Peter's Church before.

During his tenure he supported the Premonstratensian monasteries of Tepl and Chotěšov and probably founded the collegiate chapter near St. Aegid in Prague's old town . With the Benedictine monastery Břevnov he led a long-standing dispute over property rights.

literature

• Zdeňka Hledíková : Art. Johann von Drazice († 1236). 1227–1235 Bishop of Prague , in: Erwin Gatz (ed.), Clemens Brodkorb (collaborator): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Volume I, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-08422-5 , p. 581.

predecessor	Office	successor
Budilov	Bishop of Prague 1227–1236	Bernhard