Magnus Haraldsson

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Magnus Haraldsson (* ~ 1480 in Västergötland ; † approx. 1550 probably in Bützow ) was bishop of Skara from 1523 to 1529 and from 1542 auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Schwerin .

Life

Magnus Haraldsson studied in the summer semester of 1498 at the University of Greifswald , from 1504 at the University of Rostock , 1506 at the University of Erfurt and in the winter semester 1506/07 at the University of Frankfurt / Oder . He received his doctorate in Germany and became a canon in the Skara Abbey in 1508. As archdeacon (since 1519) Magnus Haraldsson was appointed bishop in 1523 in Skara, Sweden. His residence was Läckö Castle . Without having received papal confirmation, it was consecrated on January 5, 1528 by Bishop Peder Mansson, who was only consecrated in Rome in 1524, with two other candidates in Strängnäs Cathedral. This ordination was given and received without permission, but it was still valid. As early as January 12, 1528, Bishop Magnus took part in the coronation ceremony for Gustav I. Wasa in Uppsala Cathedral and held the coronation office. The married deacon and reformer Olaus Petri gave the Lutheran sermon . In 1529 he supported the uprising of the Catholic population in Småland , but had to leave the country after the suppression of the same and stayed in Helsingborg . From Helsingborg he sought contact with the Burgrave and Mayor of Gdańsk .

When Magnus Haraldsson was finally considered deposed, Sveno Jacobi was re-ordained as the new bishop for Skara in early September 1531 . In a secret protest, the old-believing bishops Petrus Magni and Magnus Sommer reserved themselves against the Lutheran teaching and the forced ordination , which had no canonical validity.

In 1536 Magnus Haraldsson reported from Gdansk that the Lutheran innovation was spreading there too and that the three Swedish bishops were suffering quite a bit .

On February 3, 1542, the expelled bishop was in Rostock , but it is not known where his actual residence was in Mecklenburg. Then he stayed in the Dominican monastery in Wismar . In 1550, almost a year after the introduction of the Reformation in Mecklenburg , a spectacular election of bishops for the Schwerin diocese took place there. This event happened on March 26, 1550, the granting of minor orders to the postults, Duke Ulrich I of Mecklenburg, by Bishop Magnus on the following day. Bützow was also named as the residence of Bishop Magnus.

Whether he died and was buried in Bützow or in Wismar is not documented.

Bishop Magnus probably had a seal , but neither an inscription nor an illustration is known. He was able to call himself auxiliary bishop because he de facto lived in the diocese of Schwerin and had worked at least once for the diocese of Schwerin, even if this only known episcopal official act outside the diocese, in Wismar, in the diocese of Ratzeburg .

literature

  • Bernhard Lesker: From Mecklenburg's past . Regensburg 1880.
  • Georg Schwaiger : The Reformation in the Nordic countries. Munich 1962.
  • Josef Traeger : The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin. St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984.
  • Johnny Hagberg: Magnus Haraldsson och hans samtid , Skara Stiftshistoriska Sällskap, Skara 2009 (Swedish)
  • Otfried Czaika : Sveno Jacobi: Boksamlaren, biskopen, theologians. En bok- och kyrkohistorisk studie , Skara Stiftshistorisk Sällskap et al., Skara et al. 2013 (Swedish)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ↑ Christian Callmer: Svenska studenter i Rostock 1419-1828 , Stockholm 1988, No. 242, p. 15 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Georg Schweiger: The Reformation in the Nordic countries , p. 113.
  4. ↑ Georg Schwaiger: The Reformation in the Nordic countries , p. 133.
  5. ^ Josef Kolberg: From the life of the last Catholic bishops in Sweden . In: List of lectures at the Royal Academy, Braunsberg.
  6. ↑ Georg Schwaiger: The Reformation in the Nordic countries , p. 137; see also in particular Otfried Czaika, Sveno Jacobi: Boksamlaren, biskopen, teologen. En bok-och kyrkohistorisk studie , pp. 215–228.
  7. ^ Franz Schildt: The Diocese of Schwerin in Protestant times . In: Mecklenburgisches Jahrbuch MJB 49 (1884) pp. 150–151.
  8. ^ Franz Schildt: The Diocese of Schwerin in Protestant times . MJB 49 (1884) p. 151, footnote: Handwritten message to Friedrich Lisch .
personal data
SURNAME Magnus Haraldsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Skara, auxiliary bishop in Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Västergötland
DATE OF DEATH around 1550
Place of death Bützow