Johann von Isenberg

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Johann von Isenberg (* in the 15th century; † September 2, 1484 ) was a Franciscan Friars Minor , titular bishop of Thermopylae / Mundinitza and auxiliary bishop in Speyer .

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He came from Eisenberg in the Palatinate , presumably belonged to the convent of Kaiserslautern and was the custodian of the Rhine custody in the Upper German Franciscan province.

On January 2, 1466, Bishop Matthias von Rammung appointed the religious as auxiliary bishop of Speyer, whereupon he received episcopal ordination on April 12, 1467 in the German national church of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome . The main consecrator was Bishop Nicolas Palmeri of Civita Castellana .

On Easter Monday 1475, Bishop Johann consecrated the new St. Moritz collegiate church of the Speyer German Foundation and in 1478 he was co-consecrator of Speyer Bishop Ludwig von Helmstatt . In his honor the provincial chapter of his order was held in Kaiserslautern in 1479 in his presence . In 1480 he took part in the monastic chapter in Villingen as papal commissioner.

Johann von Isenberg is under 2 September, with his death and anniversaries of , in recent Seelbuch the Speyer Cathedral entered.

literature

  • Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Choir Rule and Younger Sea Book of the old Speyer Cathedral Chapter , Speyer, Historischer Verein der Pfalz, 1923, pages 450 and 451 (with biographical information on the person)
  • Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448 to 1648 , Volume 2, Berlin 1996, p. 325, (reference)

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