Johann von Clotten (Canon)

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Johann von Clotten (* around 1351 in Klotten ; † May 8, 1383 in Trier ) was a German canon and canon in Trier.

origin

Johann von Clotten was a son of the father and knight of the same name Johann von Cochem and grandson of the Cochem burgrave Heinrich von Clotten .

Life

In 1373 Johann von Clotten tried to be accepted into the Trier cathedral chapter . Since this was a corporation in the true sense of the word, only aristocrats could be accepted according to the understanding of this time . This meant that he had to submit an ancestral sample . Since he succeeded, this led to the discovery of one of the oldest documented ancestral records in Germany. In the present case, it was a number of several letters that members of Johann von Clotten from the Moselle nobility addressed to the Trier cathedral chapter in 1373, which was ultimately concluded by a declaration by Trier Archbishop Kuno von Falkenstein . On April 21, 1373 Georg von Polch (“Poliche”) was the first to write a letter to the provost, dean and chapter of the Trier cathedral with the following words:

“I offer my cheap services to the venerable wise gentlemen, the cathedral provost, the cathedral dean and the chapter in general at Trier. I have understood that my nephew Johann, Mr. Johann's son von Clotten, knight and burgrave of Cochem, by special grace, is trying to get a canon position in Trier Cathedral. Knowing that the foregoing is of the right nobility, born to shield and sword, my nephew and Mage, and his father's son. His father and my mother were siblings and come from the family of “Poliche”, called Peschile. I certify this with my oath in all modesty, that this is so and not otherwise. ” I have printed my seal on this letter as part of the certificate. Given after Christ born Dusent druhundred dru und sybentzig, the next Thursday after the holy easter day. ”“

- Georg von Polch :

On the same day, two other members of the Rhenish ministerial family Boos von Waldeck wrote their declarations, on the one hand Dietrich von Waldeck and Johann “Boisze”, that the latter's father, Burgrave Heinrich, because of the House of Peschile zu Polch (“Poliche”) her right relative. The following day, the knights Gobel and Winand von Rore (he was a nephew of Johann's father) and two days later Elias von Mertloch , the old man, wrote to Trier.

On July 25, 1373 Archbishop Kuno von Trier finally certified the admission of the son Johann von Clottens to the cathedral chapter of Trier with the words, “that Johann von Clotten, Burgrave of Cochem, all of his four ancestors were of a good knightly manner and born to shield. “ With that, nothing stood in the way of Johann's canon at Trier Cathedral.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Alfons Friderichs (author): One of the oldest genealogical records in Germany for “Johann von Clotten” , In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell 1990, p. 137 ff.
  2. ^ Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Polch in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on October 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz / inventory 1D - cathedral chapter / certificate 2680 - Georg von Polch ("Poliche") writes to the Trier cathedral chapter that he heard that Johann the son of Johann von Klotten ("Clotten"), the burgrave of Cochem, should go through Papal grace become Canon of Trier, that the father of Burgrave Johann and his mother, the exhibitor, were first together ("were eerste granddaughter with eyn") and then shared their property, and that they came from the house of Peschile von Polch (" Poliche ") originated.
  4. ↑ Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz / inventory 1D - cathedral chapter / certificate 2683 - Dietrich von Waldeck and Johann "Boisze", his nephew, write to the Trier cathedral chapter because of the admission of Johann, son of the burgrave of Cochem, Johann von Klotten ("Clotten") that the latter's father, Burgrave Heinrich, was her right relative because of the House of Peschile zu Polch ("Poliche").
  5. ^ Gobel von Rore, Eifel Illustrata or geographic and historical description of the Eifel by Johann Friedrich Schannat. The second volume, second division, Trier printing and publishing house of the Linz'schen Buchhandlung 1844 in the Google book search
  6. ↑ Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz / inventory 1D - cathedral chapter / document 2685 - Archbishop Kuno von Trier notifies the Trier cathedral chapter that Henne, son of the knight Johann, burgrave of Cochem, is knightly of four ancestors and that the same can be accepted as canon.
personal data
SURNAME Johann von Clotten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canon and canon in Trier
DATE OF BIRTH around 1351
PLACE OF BIRTH Clothes
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1383
Place of death trier