Johann Schencking (Canon, 1580)

Johann Schencking (* after 1523 in Münster ; † August 3, 1580 there ) was canon in Münster .

Life

Johann Schencking came from the Münster hereditary family Schenckinck. For centuries, the Schenckings and the other patrician families of Münster provided the members of the city council, mayors and city judges. Johann was born the son of the Munster judge Hermann Schencking and his wife Mechthild Bock. They married in 1523. Johann had studied law and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. . Pope Paul IV made a controversial decision in 1557: Johann received without knightly descent in 1557 for Dompräbende died on 1 May of year provost Bernhard Munster papal commission. As a result, the conflict was inevitable, because the cathedral chapter had issued a statute in 1392 in which it had its more than a hundred-year-old custom of only admitting descendants of noblemen confirmed by the Pope. On October 27, 1557, Johann submitted the papal decision to the cathedral chapter asking for ownership. The chapter rejected this request on the grounds that Schencking, with his descent from a Münster hereditary family, had no knightly rank. On June 28, 1561 he took possession of the Munster prebende. A process aimed at by the cathedral chapter followed. Regardless of Schencking's rights, the cathedral chapter gave the prebend to Rotger von Raesfeld in 1557 . Johann did not live to see the outcome of this dispute because he died on August 3, 1580. The dispute in the hereditary man's trial lasted until January 10, 1710, when Emperor Joseph I, as the highest judicial authority, decided (initially) in favor of the hereditary men. The cathedral chapter and knighthood did not recognize the emperor's decision because it came about without the participation of the Reichstag and therefore violated the imperial constitution. They delayed obeying the judgment until October 30, 1715. On this day, Emperor Charles VI met. the final binding decision in this lengthy process.

See also

Muenster hereditary dispute

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• The diocese of Münster 4.2. ( Germania Sacra NF 17.2) The Cathedral Monastery of St. Paulus in Münster , edited by Wilhelm Kohl, published by the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen, Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin / New York, ISBN 978- 3-11-008508-2 , Germania Sacra NF 17.2 Biographies of the Canons, page 19ff. Digitized.

Web links

• Schencking personal database at Germania Sacra
• Johann Schencking personal database at Germania Sacra