Peter Angeli de Pontecorvo

Peter Angeli de Pontecorvo (according to the list of bishops of Olomouc: Peter II. Von Konitz ; Czech: Petr II. Andělův de Ponte Corvo ; † June 7, 1316 in Prague ) was Bishop of Olomouc . In the Olomouc bishop's chronicle "Granum cathalogi praesulum Moraviae" from the 15th century he is recorded with the nickname "Bradavice" ( wart ).

Life

He was the son of the Italian Magister Angelus de Pontecorvo, who came to Bohemia in the middle of the 13th century and is said to have become a priest after the death of his wife Petronia of Lomnice.

Peter was papal collector for Bohemia, Poland and Hungary from 1255 to 1262 and is said to have occupied the city of Prague with a two-week interdict as "nuncius domini pape" after a monk had been imprisoned. Politically gifted, he entered the royal chancellery and became one of the most influential men in Bohemia. After he was able to prove in 1287 that he was born before his father's ordination and his parents had been married, he was showered with benefices and dignities :

• Royal Protonotary King Wenceslas II (1289)
• Canons in Sadská , Vyšehrad (1289), Prague (1291), Wroclaw (1292), Olomouc (1296), Old Bunzlau (1298), Cracow and Leitmeritz (1306).
• Provost of St. Peter in Brno (1298), Prague (1306) and Vyšehrad (1306).

By the Vyšehrad provost dignity he rose in 1306 to the chancellor of King Wenceslaus III. on, an office that he had previously exercised as a representative of the Archbishop of Mainz Peter von Aspelt and that he also held under Wenzel's successors until 1315. However, he is said to have abused his office after King Wenzel's death in 1306, when documents were illegally sealed with his consent. That is probably why he was imprisoned in 1309.

After the death of the Olomouc bishop John VI. von Waldstein elected the cathedral chapter in 1311 Peter Angeli de Pontecorvo as his successor. Only after the Prague Bishop Tobias von Bechyně presented the Pope with the document of 1287 about Peter's marital descent, did Pope Clement V agree to the election and at the same time allow Peter to keep the income of the Prague residents for another ten years due to the economically desolate state of his diocese the Vyšehrad Provostry and the canons in Prague, Wroclaw and Schatzberg.

Little is known about Peter's episcopal ministry. 1312 he held a diocesan synod in Kremsier from, among other things, dealt with the discipline of the clergy and decided that in concubinage had to suspend living priest.

According to the Königsaaler Chronik , Peter should not have left a fortune despite the numerous benefices because he supported the poor. He died in Prague, where he is said to have mostly stayed, and was buried in St. Vitus Cathedral. Shortly before his death, he is said to have taken part in negotiations between King John and the noble opposition.

literature

• Jan Bistřický : Peter Angeli de Pontecorvo, called Warze (Bradavice) (before 1250-1316) . In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448 , ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , p. 510
• Karel Hruza:  Peter Angeli (Angelův) from Pontecorvo, called Bradavice. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 225 ( digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
John VI from Waldstein	Bishop of Olomouc 1311-1316	Konrad I.