Johannes Klenkok

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Johannes Klenkok , also Klencke or Clenke , (* around 1310 in Bücken near Hoya; † June 15, 1374 in Avignon ) was a theologian and fighter against the Sachsenspiegel .

Life

The son of the Burgmann of the Archbishop of Bremen in Thedinghausen Heinrich Klenkok and his wife Margarete studied canon law in Bologna from around 1342 . In 1345 he entered the Augustinian order in Herford and completed his theological training in Prague around 1346–51 . Between 1354 and 1356 he held his sentence reading in Oxford and was there on August 5, 1359 Master of theology. From 1361 he was the study rain of his order in Erfurt and Magdeburg and from 1363-1368 provincial of the Saxon-Thuringian order province.

At the instigation of Walter Kerlinger , he turned against 10 articles of the German legal code Sachsenspiegel in 1369 with the text Dekadikon , because in his opinion they impaired the rights of the Pope or provided for the use of unchristian means to reach a judgment. He also presented the work to the bishop of Halberstadt Albert von Rickmersdorf and the lawyer from Erbord von Bischofsroda (Herbordus de Spangenberg). Bishop Albert had the Augustinian theologians Rudolf Block and Jordan von Quedlinburg obtain a report that spoke out against Klenko's approach. ( Barthold Jacob Lintelo de Geer van Jutphaas rediscovered this first manuscript in the Utrecht University Library .)

After the angry Magdeburg city council had banished him, he fled in 1370 via Prague to Olomouc , where he enjoyed the friendship of the local bishop Johannes von Neumarkt . He defended himself against the Magdeburgers with three other writings.

In May 1371 he took part in the general chapter of his order in Florence and then went to the Curia in Avignon, where he spent the last years of his life as poenitentiarius papae . Here he also dealt with the heresy of the reform preacher Johannes Milicius .

In 1372 he passed on an expanded list of 21 errores to Gregory XI, who was elected Pope at the end of 1370, through his former student Pierre de Vergne ( Peter de Vernio ; † 1403), who had risen to Cardinal of Santa Maria in Via Lata in May 1371 . in Avignon. On April 8, 1374, the Pope issued the bull Salvator humani generis , with which he condemned 14 sentences in the Sachsenspiegel.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Ludwig Rathlef: History of the counties of Hoya and Diepholz. Rump, 1767, p. 149 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Adolar Zumkeller:  John Klenkok. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 440-442.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  3. ^ Journal. German Department. 1st vol .; 1880-
  4. ^ Digital Library - Munich Digitization Center. In: daten.digitale-sammlungen.de. Retrieved January 11, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Vergne, Pierre de. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed November 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Klenkok, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klencke, Johannes; Clenke, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian and fighter of the Sachsenspiegel
DATE OF BIRTH around 1310
PLACE OF BIRTH Stooping
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1374
Place of death Avignon