Nikolaus von Schippenbeil
Nikolaus von Schippenbeil , also Nikolaus Bock von Schippenbeil († 1410) was a priest of the Teutonic Order . He worked as General Procurator of the Order in Rome, became Bishop of Kulm in 1390 and Bishop of Cammin in 1398 .
Life
From his name it can be concluded that he came from the town of Schippenbeil , which was then in the area of the Teutonic Order . No details have been passed down about its origin. The family name "Bock" was only ascribed to him in later Pomeranian sources; This family name has been safely passed down for another later bishop of Cammin, namely Siegfried II Bock .
In 1384 he became General Procurator of the Teutonic Order at the Papal Court in Rome. He was probably the student of his predecessor Heinrich Brunner .
When the office of Bishop of Kulm became vacant with the death of Reinhard von Sayn in 1390 , Nikolaus von Schippenbeil succeeded in defending himself from Pope Bonifatius IX. to be appointed as the new bishop. The cathedral chapter of the diocese had chosen Martin von Lynow as his successor, but he could not prevail against the decision of the Pope. Nikolaus von Schippenbeil went from Rome to the land of the Order, where he took part in the election of the new Grand Master in 1391, Konrad von Wallenrode was elected . In his bishopric, Nikolaus von Schippenbeil had disputes, so that he mostly stayed in Rome.
In 1398 Pope Boniface IX. the bishops of Kulm and Cammin swap their offices: Nikolaus von Schippenbeil became bishop of Cammin , the previous bishop of Cammin, Johann I. von Oppeln , became bishop of Kulm. Nikolaus von Schippenbeil went to his new diocese in autumn 1398. On October 13, 1398 he confirmed the privileges of the city of Kolberg , the most powerful city in the monastery area. In the diocese of Cammin, however, Nikolaus von Schippenbeil encountered a difficult situation: The Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw VIII had previously been the administrator of the diocese and still held goods and castles in the abbey area as pledges. Nikolaus von Schippenbeil did not succeed in getting Duke Bogislaw VIII to hand over these goods and castles, even by imposing church sentences.
Again, Nikolaus von Schippenbeil stayed a long time in Rome instead of in his diocese. Under Pope Gregory XII. , who ruled since 1406, he temporarily held the important office of castellan of Castel Sant'Angelo . In October 1407 he worked for the Pope as a nuncio in Germany. During the Western Schism , Nikolaus von Schippenbeil was always loyal to the Pope in Rome, even when after the Council of Pisa (1409) there was a threefold schism and the influence of Gregory XII, who ruled in Rome. became less. So he took an active part in the 1409 of Pope Gregory XII. convened council of Cividale part.
The antipope Alexander V , elected at the Council of Pisa, declared in March 1410 the deposition of Nikolaus von Schippenbeil as Bishop of Cammin and installed Magnus of Saxe-Lauenburg as the new bishop. Nikolaus von Schippenbeil did not recognize this measure of the antipope and continued to see himself as the rightful bishop of Cammin. He issued his last surviving bishopric on July 4, 1410 in the New Mark town of Soldin, which belongs to his diocese .
See also
literature
- Bernhart Jähnig : Nikolaus Bock von Schippenbeil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 265 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jürgen Petersohn : The Kamminer bishops of the Middle Ages . Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944033-09-9 , pp. 65-67.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Reinhard von Sayn |
Bishop of Kulm 1390–1398 |
Johann I of Opole |
| Johann I of Opole |
Bishop of Cammin 1398-1410 |
Magnus of Saxony-Lauenburg |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nikolaus von Schippenbeil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buck from Schippenbeil, Nikolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Priest of the Teutonic Order |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1410 |