John of Diest

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Johannes von Diest , also Dyst or Deest († September 21, 1259 ) was as Johannes II. From 1254 to 1259 Bishop of Lübeck .

Life

The Franciscan Diest had gained a reputation as a preacher on the cross against the unbelievers. He was first bishop of Samland , but expelled there. In the same year he took office in Lübeck, he got into disputes with Counts Johann and Gerhard von Holstein, who served themselves at the episcopal table goods. He had to buy back the stolen goods from them with 800  silver marks . When the Holstein counts imposed a count's appraisal (grevenscan) on the episcopal farmers, Johann filed a lawsuit against this. As a result, on November 13, 1256, a settlement was reached and Johann had to hand over his rights at Flemmingdorf. In March 1256 he made a comparison between the Lübeck Cathedral Chapter and the Lübeck Council, in which open questions about the administration of the divine caste in Lübeck Cathedral and about certain tithes in the fields of the city were clarified. In December 1256 he acquired the Bailiwick of Eutin from Vollrad Steen and his nephew of the same name for 600  Lübische Marks , to which city he granted Lübeck law. In 1258 he founded the Schwartau infirmary .

paradise

Diest came from the Rhineland and his preconceived notions there architecture characterize the paradise called portico of the Lübeck Cathedral in front of the north transept gable. The paradise commissioned by Diest is viewed today as a unique joint effort by Rhenish stonemasons and brick builders from Lübeck.

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops up to the end of the sixteenth century - presented biographically, literarily, historically and in terms of church statistics . 1st volume, Leipzig 1858, pp. 562-589 .
  • Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD. Geb. Minden 1854, S. 56-57 .
  • Hermann Grote : Family Tables. Leipzig 1877
predecessor Office successor
Albert Suerbeer Bishop of Lübeck
1254–1259
Johannes of Tralau