Michael von Rentelen

Seal of Michael von Rentelen as titular bishop, 1472

Michael von Rentelen OP (* in Lübeck ; † 1473 ) was a Dominican and from 1462 titular bishop of Symbalon . It is attested by auxiliary bishops in the dioceses of Schwerin , Havelberg , Cammin and Roskilde .

Life

Michael von Rentelen came from the Lübeck council family von Rentelen , who had a special closeness to the Dominicans of the Lübeck castle monastery due to their proven foundations . His father was the Lübeck councilor Christian von Rentelen ; his grandfather Henning von Rentelen was mayor of the city. Many members of the family belonged to the patrician circle society in Lübeck; the family, involved in the co- founding of the Circle Brothers Altar , held a prominent position within it.

Nothing can be learned from Michael von Rentelen's pre-monastic training. One can assume, however, that as the son of a respected Lübeck family, he had received appropriate training. The ecclesiastical offices carried out later suggest that this is certain. It is not known when Michael von Rentelen entered the castle monastery in Lübeck as a novice , when he made his profession and when he was ordained a priest. On September 8, 1453 he was first mentioned in a document among the oldest brothers of this monastery. It remains to be seen whether this term was used to refer to the age, the age of the order or membership of a certain body of this monastery.

On April 9, 1462, the Dominican Michael von Rentelen was appointed titular bishop of Symbalon (today Balaklava ) by Pope Pius II . The name Simbalien can be found in the seal imprint. Whether Bishop Werner Wolmers von Schwerin had already tried to get Michael von Rentelen as future vicarius in pontificalibus at this point does not seem to be entirely certain. From entries in the papal registers it can be seen that the diocese of Schwerin was awarded by the provost Heinrich Guerwen for the payment of an annual pension of 200  florins from the household of the diocesan bishop on the occasion of his appointment. On August 3, 1462, he could not have received the episcopal ordination because he was still called Electus at that time . When and where he received episcopal ordination is not known.

At the same time as he was appointed, he is said to have become auxiliary bishop in Schwerin . However, he was also active in the surrounding spiritual territories. On May 2, 1465, he consecrated an altar of Mary in the Wunderblutkirche in the pilgrimage site of Wilsnack , which at that time belonged to the diocese of Havelberg , as auxiliary bishop of the bishop of Havelberg Wedigo Gans von Putlitz . In the general chapter of the order Michael Reutheleem, ep. Cimbalensis mentioned on October 2, 1465 with other bishops of the order.

In the register of the University of Rostock on October 22, 1465, the entry: Petrus Suluerfeldt de lubeck honoratus per universitatem propter episcopum Symboliensem , which can only mean Bishop Michael.

A letter of indulgence from Bishops Werner (Wolmers) von Schwerin, Albert von Lübeck and Michael Simbalienis was attested on October 4, 1466 for the place of pilgrimage Zecher, today's Klein Zecher near Seedorf am Schaalsee . Before 1468, Bishop Michael was active in the diocese of Cammin as vicarius generalis in spiritualibus et pontificalibus ( vicar general in spiritual and episcopal matters) of Bishop Henning Iwen . After completing the choir in St. Stephen's Church Swantow in 1469, Bishop Michael consecrated the high altar there in honor of Saint Stephen, Michael, Catherine, All Saints and the Epiphany. In 1785, the certificate of consecration was found next to a relic in the brickwork of Swantow Church. The church on the island of Rügen belonged to the diocese of Roskilde at that time . On September 18, 1471, on the occasion of a stay in Bützow, Bishop Werner (Wolmers) von Schwerin and Bishop Michael granted a 40-day indulgence in favor of the daily Marientides in the St. Jakobikirche in Rostock for every presence and every presentation.

On January 17, 1471, Bishop Michael von Sunbolen and his nephew Peter Holste were named in the Lübeck Niederstadtbuch .

On October 26, 1472, Bishop Michael, as vicarius in spiritualibus and suffraganeus of the Schwerin bishop Werner, together with him in Rostock, granted indulgence in favor of the Marienkirche so that it could be given a new copper roof and a new clock. On the same day, the great gentleman Kaland received a certificate of indulgence for certain good works. The new clock was the still preserved astronomical clock commissioned by the Herrenkaland .

In the Oberstadtbuch , the land register of the city of Lübeck, there is the following entry in 1473: Mr. Michael von Rentelen left his heir Gertrud von Nudeln and her son Hans a house in the local St. Annenstraße , which was ascribed to the Lübeck protonotary Johann Wunstorp . Only citizens of Lübeck were allowed to own property within the city. As a religious and bishop, Bishop Michael could not have the citizenship of Lübeck and thus acquire property in the city, which is why the house was registered in trust in the name of the protonotary. It is not known exactly where he lived during his ten-year tenure. A temporary stay in the monasteries of his order in the diocese for which he was currently active or, according to the status of vicarius generalis, at the seat of the episcopal administration concerned would be conceivable . The entry in the Oberstadtbuch can be assumed that Bishop Michael had already died in 1473. When and where this happened, as well as the place of the burial are not recorded.

seal

The Seal of Bishop Michael was round. In the lower half of the coat of arms with the strain of those arms Rentelen taken Lippische Rose seem to go out of the right and left leaves that intersect in the upper half. A bishop's staff is placed over it from bottom right to top left. The inscription reads: SIGILLUM DNI MICHAELIS EPI SIMBALIENSIS. With regard to the Lippe rose, this coat of arms was borrowed from the family history of Rentelen, the family originally residing in Hanover and Schaumburg had migrated from there to the cities on the southern Baltic coast. The traditional coat of arms of Lübeck councilor Bertram von Rentelen around 1478 still shows a stake covered with three roses.

See also

• List of auxiliary bishops in Cammin
• List of auxiliary bishops in Schwerin

literature

• Adolf Hofmeister : The Schwerin auxiliary bishop Michael von Rentelen . In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher Volume 56 (1891) pp. 3–5 (digitized version)
• Josef Traeger : Michael de Rentelen - a Lübeck citizen's son as auxiliary bishop in the medieval diocese of Schwerin. In: Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum. 52: 187-196 (1982).
• Josef Traeger: Auxiliary Bishops . In: The bishops of the medieval diocese Schwerin St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1984, pp. 206–212
• Josef Traeger: Rentelen, Michael de (OP) († 1473 at the latest). 1462 Ep. Tit. Cimbaliensis. 1462-1472 auxiliary bishop in Schwerin, Havelberg, Kammin, Roskilde. In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. A biographical lexicon. Volume 2: 1448 to 1648 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, p. 578 ISBN 3-428-08422-5

Web links

• Literature about Michael von Rentelen in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ UB Lübeck 9 , CLVI certificate.
2. ↑ Konrad Eubel : Hirachia catholica medii aevi. Volume II. Münster 1914, p. 128.
3. ↑ Dr. Diener: Detailed report by the German Historical Institute in Rome . January 12, 1970.
4. ^ Regest of the documents and records in the Brandenburg Cathedral Monastery Archive , BWV Verlag, 2009, p. 496.
5. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
6. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : Kamminer auxiliary bishops . In: Monthly sheets of the society for Pomeranian history and antiquity . 1936, p. 100.
7. ^ Hellmuth Heyden: New essays on the church history of Pomerania . Cologne-Graz 1965, p. 233.
8. ↑ Kirchliches Archiv Schwerin , holdings of the Rostock church economy , documents No. 157 with the seal of Bishop Werner and Bishop Michaels.
9. ↑ Kirchliches Archiv Schwerin, holdings of the Rostock church economy , documents No. 157 with the seal of Bishop Werner and Bishop Michaels.
10. ^ Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck