Johann Schencking (Canon, 1586)

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Johann Schencking (* unknown; † unknown) 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 members of the city council, mayors and city judges. Around the middle of the 16th century, the hereditary families changed to the landed gentry . This fact was to entry to the cathedral chapter of importance, because for centuries the candidates from Erbmännerfamilien, including the Canon was Johann Schencking , possession of a Dompräbende disputed. Johann was the son of Godeke Schencking zu Bevern and his wife Anna von Valke zu Venhaus and belonged to the landed gentry. Johann received a cathedral praise from Münster in 1586 and was emancipated on June 10, 1593. He received the inferior consecrations on December 21, 1599. In 1601 he donated a statue of St. Stephen in the north-eastern transept of Münster Cathedral with his parents' coat of arms. On June 1, 1602 , Johann resigned to the Turnar and married Elisabeth von Neuhoff zu Neuhoff. His brother Johann of the same name was canon in Münster from 1626 to 1634.

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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.

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SURNAME Schencking, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon in Munster
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century