Nicholas of Bunzlau

Nikolaus von Bunzlau OSB (also Nikolaus von Abelone ; † October 10, 1411 ) was a Benedictine and appointed bishop of Abelone and auxiliary bishop in Breslau .

Life

Nikolaus was the son of the Brieger citizen Johann von Bunzlau . It is not known when he became a member of the Murbach Benedictine Abbey in Alsace . As a monk of this monastery he was on May 2, 1390 by Pope Boniface IX. appointed Bishop of Abelone on the Greek island of Evia ( Negroponte ). At the same time he was instructed to take possession of his diocese and to reside there. Since this was not possible, the papal bull of December 22, 1390 approved him to take on episcopal functions outside the diocese of Abelone with the permission of the respective local bishops. At the same time he was allowed to be ordained by any Catholic bishop. According to a document dated February 2, 1392, he earned annual interest income in some villages near Brieg, which belonged to the Johannitern , which he bequeathed to the Brieger Kollegiatstift when he became its canon .

It was not until 1398 that he was appointed auxiliary bishop in Breslau. Few of his auxiliary episcopal acts are known. On May 20, 1403 consecrated it to Olomouc Bishop Latzek of Krawarn in Olomouc Cathedral and in 1407 he gave the seminarians Simon ( Symon ) the ordination . Some purchase and sales contracts as well as inheritance matters have come down to us. On May 16, 1406, the Governor of Schweidnitz, Johann Kruschina von Lichtenburg , certified that the Wroclaw citizen Andreas Czademar had bequeathed his possessions in the Bohemian hereditary principality of Schweidnitz-Jauer to the auxiliary bishop Nikolaus von Abelone. In 1407 Nikolaus sold some land in Breslau, where he owned a house himself. He inherited half the village of Jenkwitz near Neumarkt from his mother Jutta Bunczlawynne and sold it on May 18, 1408 to Heinrich, a citizen of Breslau, who also acquired the second half of Jenkwitz. Since the previous owner, Döring, did not agree to the sale and made claims himself, he captured the auxiliary bishop Nikolaus on February 13, 1410. Döring intended to detain him until his claims were settled. As a result, Bishop Wenzel imposed an interdict on the diocese of Wroclaw, which was not lifted until the auxiliary bishop was released on March 19, 1410. On April 7 of the same year, an arbitral tribunal ruled that Auxiliary Bishop Nicholas was right. Because of the acts of violence suffered in captivity, however, he died on October 10, 1411. In his will, he decreed a mass foundation for the salvation of his soul , which was confirmed by Bishop Wenzel on March 21, 1412.

literature

• Joseph Jungnitz : The auxiliary bishops of Breslau . Verlag von Franz Goerlich, Breslau 1914, pp. 34–37.