Johannes von Deher

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Johannes von Deher (also Johann VII. Von Lebus ; Johann von Thier ; † July 28, 1455 ) was Bishop of Lebus from 1443 to 1455.

Life

Drawing (1885) of the lost epitaph in Fürstenwalder Cathedral

Its origin is unknown.

1428 John was a licentiate (Teaching Officer) of the law referred to in an application for a Domherrenstelle in Lebus . In 1430 he was also licentiate in canon law and canon in Passau .

In 1431 Johannes was first mentioned as a canon in Meißen . In 1535 he traveled to the council in Basel on behalf of the Saxon Elector Friedrich . He was referred to as a doctor of the two rights and archdeacon of Niederlausitz . In 1438 Johannes was canon in Bautzen .

In 1443 or 1444 he was appointed Bishop of Lebus. On March 17, 1444 he was first referred to as such in a document. In 1446 Johann von Lebus received the order from the Pope to visit the cathedral monasteries in Brandenburg and Havelberg and to review the complaints of the Brandenburg elector about failure to comply with the rules of the order. In that year he laid the foundation stone for a renovation of the Fürstenwalder Cathedral , which he was able to rededicate a year later. This year Johann mediated between the Elector Friedrich II of Brandenburg and Duke Joachim von Stettin.

In 1452 Elector Friedrich sent him to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in Königsberg in Prussia. Johannes von Deher died on July 8, 1455 and was buried in Fürstenwalder Cathedral. A bronze tombstone was still there in the 19th century.

literature

  • Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück : History of the former diocese of Lebus and the country of this taking. Volume 2. Berlin 1829. pp. 149-152
  • Hermann Kinne (arrangement): The (exemte) diocese of Meissen 1. The collegiate monastery St. Petri zu Bautzen from its foundation to 1569. (= Germania Sacra. Third part 7: The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg), Berlin 2014. P. 564f .
  • Suse Andresen: On a princely order: The learned councilors of the Electors of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern in the 15th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017. p. 633

Remarks

  1. Wohlbrück refers to the Silesian noble family von Deher, in which most of the later authors follow him, but there are no written references for such an origin and the coats of arms of the family and the bishop also differ fundamentally, as Wohlbrück himself points out. Such an origin is possible, but not certain.
  2. ^ Rudolf Bergau : Inventory of the architectural and art monuments in the province of Brandenburg. Voss, Berlin 1885. pp. 370–372 with illustration
predecessor Office successor
Konrad Kron Bishop of Lebus
1443–1455
Friedrich Stuhlmann