Marquard Bermann

Marquard Bermann († September 17, 1378 in Schwerin ) was provost in the Premonstratensian monastery Rehna from 1353 to 1372 and bishop of Schwerin from 1376 to 1378 .

Life

After the death of Bishop Friedrich II von Bülow , the Schwerin cathedral chapter elected Marquard Bermann as the new bishop from among its members. The Electus came from a sizeable middle-class family who lived in and around Gadebusch . His mother was a née Voigt, a Lübeck citizen's daughter. With the election of a bourgeois cathedral capitular as bishop, the aim here was to try to raise the profile of the bourgeoisie for this office.

Marquard had made it to the provost of the Premonstratensian monastery Rehna and administered this office from 1353 to 1372. On April 19, 1355 he was named as consiliarius with Duke Albrecht of Mecklenburg and finally as canon 1367-1378 in the Schwerin and Lübeck cathedral chapters . After his death the Lübeck cathedral chapter called him concanonicus noster . In his first years as the provost of Rehna, he still had real estate in Lübeck, which was probably held in trust for him by a citizen of Lübeck, as can be seen in a note from the mayor Tidemann Warendorp there .

When the election of Marquard Bermann for the Schwerin bishopric took place is not documented. On January 1, 1376, he took an oath in Bützow and was then designated as the chosen bishop of Zwerin . It seems that he was also given confirmation by the responsible Archbishop of Bremen, Albert II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , without having received the episcopal ordination. Apparently one had in the Schwerin cathedral chapter on January 24, 1376 no knowledge that Pope Gregory XI. the bishop's seat had already been occupied elsewhere, because the two administrators of the diocese seds vacante , the archdeacon of Waren , Albert Foysan and the archdeacon of Triebsees, Jacubus de Crumbeke, still documented in Bützow and used the administrative seal with the crossed bishop's staffs with express mention of their office and that they are specialiter deputati . In July 1367 there were increased efforts of the previous bishop of Osnabrück , Melchior von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen , who had been provided by the Pope with the diocese of Schwerin, and who had now settled in the Pomeranian part of the diocese, to extend his jurisdiction to the Mecklenburg part. These efforts were later also successful.

Bishop Marquard continued to work in Schwerin, even in 1377 in the company of Duke Albrecht. Bishop Melchior was staying in Stralsund at the same time, and on January 7, 1377 he received his tithe from the Mecklenburg diocese of Rostock . After that, the rapprochement between the cathedral chapter and the Mecklenburg dukes to the rightful bishop Melchior made rapid progress, which was furthered by the intervention of Emperor Charles IV on April 10, 1377. On April 24, 1377, a settlement was reached with the cathedral chapter in Schwerin, with the promise to negotiate amicably with Marquard Bermann . In Bützow, on July 9, 1377, Marquard committed himself to wanting to assist the chapter in everything that would be undertaken to preserve the monastery property .

Bishop Melchior was there, because the opposing Bishop Marquard died on September 17, 1378 and was buried in the choir of Schwerin Cathedral . The stone is said to have set in 1866. The inscription read: In the year of the Lord 1378, on the day of St. Lamperti, the Venerable Father in Christ, Mr. Maquardus Bermann, who was chosen by these churches and confirmed by the Ertzbishop of Bremen, died, which soul rests in peace .

In his will of December 10, 1383, Lübeck citizen Gred Voigt commemorates his Omes Marquard Bermann, who was provost in the monastery at Rehna, in a mass foundation.

seal

As provost of the Rehna monastery, Maquard Bermann carried a round seal . Under a Gothic niche with a canopy, the Mother of God with the baby Jesus, in front of it the kneeling seal holder.

The inscription reads: S 'MARQUARDI BERMAN P'TI

The seal that Marquard carried as Electus was also round. In the standing shield two crooks placed in the St. Andrew's cross ; in the lower corner an upright, right-turned key.

The inscription reads: S 'MARKVARDI ELECTI ECCE ZWERINEN.

Literature and Sources

literature

• Alfred Rische: Directory of the bishops and canons of Schwerin with biographical remarks. Ludwigslust 1900.
• Konrad Eubel : Hierarchia catholica medii aevi. Volume I. 1913.
• Gerhard Müller-Alpermann: Status and origin of the bishops of the Magdeburg and Hamburg church provinces in the Middle Ages. Prenzlau 1930.
• Josef Traeger : The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin. St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984, pp. 113-115.
• Josef Traeger: The Bishops of the Diocese of Schwerin . In: The Stiftsland of the Schwerin bishops around Bützow and Warin . St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984, p. 95.
• Margit Kaluza-Baumruker: The Schwerin Cathedral Chapter (1171–1400). Cologne, Vienna 1987.
• Clemens Brodkorb: 1198 to 1448 . (2001) p. 709.
• Andres Röpcke: Wismarer on the Schwerin bishop's chair. In: Wismar contributions. Series of publications from the archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar. Wismar 2014 pp. 7–23.

Printed sources

• Mecklenburg record book
• Mecklenburg yearbooks

Web links

• Literature about Marquard Bermann in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MUB VI. (1870) No. 4244, MUB XX (1900) No. 11361.
2. ^ Gerhard Müller-Alpermann: Status and origin of the bishops of the Magdeburg and Hamburg church provinces in the Middle Ages. 1930, p. 90.
3. ↑ MJB XV. (1850) p. 304, directory of the provosts and prioresses of the Rehna monastery.
4. ↑ MUB VI. (1870) No. 4244.
5. ↑ MUB XII. (1884) No. 8075.
6. ^ Alfred Rische: Directory of the bishops and canons of Schwerin. 1900 p. 8.
7. ↑ MUB XVI. (1893) No. 9606.
8. ^ Finding aid of the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , shelf mark: Interna 178; Note: At that time, only citizens of the city could purchase real estate in Lübeck directly.
9. ↑ Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia catholica medii aevi , I. 1913, p. 539.
10. ↑ MUB, Regesten No. 14626.
11. ↑ MUB XIX (1899) No. 10902.
12. ↑ MUB XIX (1899) No. 11034.
13. ↑ MUB XXV B No. 15051.
14. ↑ MUB XIX (1899) No. 10972.