Nicholas of Castro Arquato

Nikolaus von Castro Arquato (Italian: Niccolò de Castro Arquato, or Niccolò della Porta; † between July 1 and September 13, 1251 in Milan ) officiated between 1234 and 1251 as the Latin patriarch in Constantinople . He belonged to a branch of the noble family della Porta , who came from Piacenza and who resided in Arquato Castle.

Nicholas was probably first received by Pope Gregory IX. appointed Bishop of Spoleto before October 1228 . As such, on that date he had exempted the Poor Clares of San Maria Magdalena near Norcia from episcopal jurisdiction. According Alberic of Trois-Fontaines Nicholas was in 1233 as patriarch in Constantinople Opel used, probably after a previous choice of the local cathedral chapter of the Hagia Sophia , but it is the first time guarantees on August 12, 1234 for this office a document when he by the Pope in Spoleto also received the Legation for the Ministry of the Patriarchate.

On February 28, 1235, Nicholas was still in Perugia and between November 1236 and 1243 he finally seems to have resided in Constantinople, since several papal letters addressed to him there. On July 10th of the last year he was entrusted by Pope Innocent IV with the legation for the entire Latin Empire . By June 1245 at the latest, Nicholas traveled to Lyon for the council that was meeting there . Apparently he did not return to Constantinople after that, despite his reappointment as legate of the Latin Empire on May 28, 1249. In the summer of 1251 he accompanied the Pope to Milan , where he finally died and was buried in the church of San Francesco, which was demolished in 1806 has been.

This was followed by a two-year vacancy in the Latin patriarchy, which only ended in 1253 with the election of Pantaleon Giustiniani .

literature

• Leo Santifaller: Contributions to the history of the Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople (1204–1261), and the Venetian document (1938), pp. 38–42.

Remarks

1. ↑ Cf. Alberich von Trois-Fontaines, Chronica, ed. in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Scriptores in folio 23 (1874), p. 933.
2. ↑ See Lucien Auvray, Les registres de Grégoire IX, Vol. 1 (1896), No. 2049, 2050, Col. 1106.
3. ↑ See Lucien Auvray, Les registres de Grégoire IX, Vol. 2 (1907), No. 2624, Col. 81; No. 3382, col. 506; No. 3940, col. 806; No. 4207, 4208, 4218, Sp. 955f.

predecessor	Office	successor
?	Bishop of Spoleto 1228–1234	Bartolomeo Accoramboni
Simon von Maugastel	Latin Patriarch of Constantinople 1234–1251	vacancy