Johannes von Mewe

Johannes von Mewe OT († December 5, 1440 in Marienwerder ) was a priest of the Teutonic Order and Bishop of Pomesania . Mewe is the name of a Teutonic castle on the Vistula in today's Gniew in Poland.

Life

Coming from Heilsberg (Lidzbark), he was a priest of the Teutonic Order, Canon of Pomesania and here since 1420 cathedral provost . After the death of pomesanischen Bishop Gerhard Stolpmann probably in the summer of 1427 under the influence of the Grand Master Paul von Rusdorf from the cathedral chapter elected successor, he received the papal confirmation by Pope Martin V on July 13, 1427. possession of the diocese and episcopal ordination took place at March 31, 1428.

In September 1428 he organized the third known Pomesan diocesan synod in the Marienwerder Cathedral . There the statutes of the synod held by Bishop Johannes Ryman in 1411 were confirmed and amended; u. a. the statutes demanded that the bride and groom be called up three times before the marriage to limit the possibility of an invalid marriage. In 1429 he was involved in a meeting with Archbishop Henning von Scharfenberg (1424-1448) in Riga , where the payment of taxes to the Holy See to fight the Hussites was discussed. At the end of 1435 he was one of the Grand Master's envoys at the peace negotiations with the Kingdom of Poland in Brzesc, gave him, together with Bishop Franz Kuhschmalz of Warmia , the power of attorney to transsume papal privileges at the Council of Basel in 1435, and commissioned them to appoint the Samland bishop Michael Junge against attacks by the Teutonic Order on the episcopal third of his diocese.

literature

• Jan Wisniewski: Johannes (called von Mewe) (OT) († 1440). In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448. Berlin 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 573-574.

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerhard Stolpmann	Bishop of Pomesania 1427-1440	Kaspar Linke