Nicholas of Calvi

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Nikolaus von Calvi , Latin Nicolaus de Carbio , Italian Niccolò da Calvi (* 1st quarter of the 13th century in Calvi dell'Umbria , † summer 1273 in Assisi ) was an Italian minorite , papal chaplain and bishop of Assisi .

Life

Nicholas joined the Franciscan convent in Narni, founded in 1213 . He met Sinibaldo de 'Fieschi and became part of his family even before Sinibaldo's appointment as cardinal (1227). After Sinibaldo became Pope in 1243 as Innocent IV , Nicholas remained his chaplain and confessor and accompanied him on his flight from Frederick II via Genoa to Lyon in 1244/45. After the Emperor's death in 1250, Nicholas returned to Italy with the Pope and Innocent elevated his confidante to Bishop of Assisi, which has always been occupied by Franciscans ever since. Nicholas played an important role as a link between the Popes and the young Order of the Minorites.

Probably in the first half of the 1260s, before the Battle of Benevento , which broke the power of the Hohenstaufen in Italy, Nicholas wrote a biography of the Pope, the Vita Innocentii IV . In the area of ​​tension between the Ghibellines and the Guelphs , it is marked by a sharply anti-Imperial tendency.

Works

  • Niccolò da Calvi, Vita Innocentii IV , ed. by Francesco Pagnotti. In: Archivio della Società Romana di storia patria 21 , 1898, pp. 76–120. ( Digitized version )

literature

  • Peter Vogel: Nikolaus von Calvi and his biography of Pope Innocent IV. With special consideration of the peace negotiations between Pope Innocent IV and Emperor Friedrich II in the years 1243/44. Emsdetten 1939.
  • Nicolangelo D'Acunto:  NICCOLÒ da Calvi. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 78:  Natta – Nurra. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name de Curbio , which has long been used in scientific literature, is based on a reading error by Étienne Baluze , cf. Francesco Pagnotti: Archivio della Società Romana di storia patria XXI, Rome 1898, pp. 34-35
  2. ↑ Kuttner Institute, Innocentius IV papa , p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Calvi, Nicholas of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carbio, Nicolaus de; wrongly Curbio, Nicolaus de; Calvi, Niccolò there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian minorite
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Calvi dell'Umbria
DATE OF DEATH 1273
Place of death Assisi