Johann von Randow

Canon Johann von Randow

Johann von Randow (* 1526 in Magdeburg ; † October 31, 1572 there ) was Magdeburg canon .

Life

The date of birth of Johann von Randow is not known because there were no church book entries at that time. Later age information suggests that 1526 was the year of birth. Johann was “kept in school by his youth”, and at the age of ten he was elected canon of Magdeburg Cathedral on September 4, 1536.

After school, as soon as “his years came, he was sent to the Academiam in Wittenberg”, where he enrolled on April 18, 1541. After studying "it is in the ( archbishop ) Cantzeley gen Hall come", where he worked for the 1545th In the same year he also received a minor priest at Magdeburg Cathedral , which his cousin Richard gave him. Soon afterwards (probably in 1553) he was requested by an imperial councilor named Johann Hoffmann and received the office of court master , which he administered for four years.

In 1557 he took the place of the Magdeburg Canon of Walwitz, who died on July 15, 1554 . In 1567 - ten years after Johann von Randow took office - on November 30th, on the 1st Sunday of Advent, the Evangelical Lutheran church service was introduced in the cathedral church.

At the age of 39 - probably 1565 - Johann married a Gertrud von Alvensleben († April 24, 1573) from the Rogätz family , the daughter of Iliatz von Alvensleben . In their seven-year marriage, only one daughter was born to them (1566), who was named Anna. She married the Magdeburg canon and archdeacon Johann Georg von Arnim (1554–1603) on February 25, 1582 and died on January 12, 1592 in childbed.

Johann died on October 31, 1572 and was buried on November 2 in the chapel of St. Severi et omnium Sanctori (St. Severin and All Saints' Day) in Magdeburg Cathedral, where his grave slab can still be seen today. His successor as canon was Rudolph von Bünau .

literature

Olof v. Randow: The Randows. A family story . Degener, Neustadt / Aisch 2001, ISBN 3-7686-5182-7 , ( German family archive 135/136).
Coat of arms of the Randow family in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book
Entry about Randow in New General German Adels Lexicon
Entry about Randow in New Prussian Adelslexicon

Web links

Family websites

Individual evidence

↑ See the funeral sermons for Anna ( S 1218 in VD 16. ) and Johann Georg von Arnim ( 1: 039200S in VD 17. ).

personal data
SURNAME	Randow, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Magdeburg Canon
DATE OF BIRTH	1526
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 1572
Place of death	Magdeburg

[1] See the funeral sermons for Anna ( S 1218 in VD 16. ) and Johann Georg von Arnim ( 1: 039200S in VD 17. ).