Johannes Berndes (the elder)

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Johannes Berndes , also Bernhardi , (* end of the 15th century in Flensburg ; still mentioned in 1543; † before 1550 there ) was a clergyman during the Reformation period in Flensburg.

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Johannes Berndes was probably a son of the Rendsburg bailiff Berend Petersen († around 1495) and his wife Clawes Brun, whose father was a mayor of Flensburg. A suspected half-brother was the Flensburg butcher Asmus Petersen, who had a son named Paulus Erasmi († August 11, 1604), who was active as a pastor in Atzbüll from 1571 . He also had a brother named Nicolaus, who worked as a theologian in Flensburg. Berndes married a woman named Kerstin, who, according to evidence, was still alive in 1553. With her, Berndes had a son of the same name who also became a pastor.

Berndes was a priest from 1511 at the latest. Since that year he has been demonstrably a member of the Flensburg calender . At that time he held a position as vicar of the St. Jakobs Chapel of the St. Mary's Church in Flensburg , which financed the shoemaker's office. Until the end of his life he received the income from the altar. After the Reformation , from 1531 onwards he also received the income from the Marien Altar of St. John's Church , borne by the St. Erasmus and Marien Rosenkranz Brotherhood.

Although there is no evidence for this, there are several indications that Berndes could have become lord of the Johanniskirche during the Catholic period. So in 1527, as the lord of the church , he controlled the accounts of the church jury for 1525/26. If he actually already held this office in 1525/26, it can be assumed that he enforced the Reformation that was carried out in Flensburg on the 1st of Advent in 1526 in his community. Evidence of how Berndes received Lutheranism has not survived. It can be assumed, however, that Berndes joined the Reformation, as the Danish King Christian III. as a preacher at one of three Flensburg city churches. As parishioner of St. John's Church, he visited the field monasteries Løgumkloster Sogn and Rudekloster in 1541 together with the parishioners of the Marienkirche and Nikolaikirche , Gerd Slewert and Nicolaus Johannis . His further work in Flensburg and the date of his death are not documented.

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SURNAME Berndes, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernhardi, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH before 1550
Place of death Flensburg