Petrus Spitznagel

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Petrus Spitznagel or Peter Spitznagel (* around 1405, † 1465 in Bruchsal ) was a Carmelite priest , titular bishop of Myra and auxiliary bishop in the prince-bishopric of Speyer .

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He came from a bourgeois family of the city of Frankfurt am Main and is therefore often called Petrus Spitznagel von Frankfurt or Petrus or Peter von Frankfurt .

The choir of the Carmelite Church in Frankfurt, built under Petrus Spitznagel

Spitznagel became a Carmelite in 1424 and belonged to the Low German province of the order. In 1426 and 1427 he worked as a lecturer in the Boppard monastery , then in the Cologne convent . In addition to his studies, he explained the sentences of Petrus Lombardus at the university there and gave exegetical lectures. In 1429 he already had the academic degree of baccalaureate , in 1430 he became a licentiate and in 1431 a doctorate in theology.

In the years 1431–43, Petrus Spitznagel stayed in his hometown as prior of the Carmelite monastery in Frankfurt . A large part of the still existing but profane Carmelite Church was built under him. In 1434 he visited the Council of Basel on behalf of his order ; as a temporary worker he worked in Cologne in 1438 and in 1439 in the Carmelite monastery in Trier as a lecturer.

In 1443 Spitznagel became prior of the Carmelite monastery in Speyer , and in 1444 the Speyer prince-bishop Reinhard von Helmstatt appointed him auxiliary bishop of his diocese. In this dignity he succeeded his brother Heinrich Bock , who died in 1443 and who was also a Carmelite Prior and Auxiliary Bishop there. Petrus Spitznagel remained in these offices under the Bishops Siegfried III. von Venningen , Johannes II. Nix von Hoheneck and Matthias von Rammung .

On November 23, 1445 he gave the Baden Prince Georg (later Bishop of Metz), Johann (later Archbishop of Trier) and Markus (later Chorbishop in Cologne) the tonsure at Hohenbaden Castle . They were the brothers of the blessed Margrave Bernhard von Baden . In 1455 Spitznagel consecrated six altars in the monastery church of Höningen , in 1456 he served in the Maulbronn monastery , alongside Reinhard von Sickingen , the chief shepherd of Worms , as co-consecrator of Bishop Siegfried III of Speyer. from Venningen. Together with Bishop Johannes Nix von Hoheneck, he consecrated an altar in the parish church of Lomersheim in 1462 .

He died in Bruchsal in 1465 and was buried in the Speyer Cathedral .

The religious wrote several theological books, including a. a commentary on the sentences of Petrus Lombardus and an explanation of the Mass under the title "Expositio canonis missae".

literature

  • Ignaz Backes: The Dome of Sentences by Petrus Spitznagel von Frankfurt , in: Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale , Volume 22, Abbaye du Mont César, Löwen, 1955, pp. 110–118, (reference)
  • Fr. Daniel of the Virgin Mary: Speculum Carmelitanum , Volume II., Part 5, Antwerp, 1653; (Digital scan)
  • Gebhard Florian, Achilles Augustus von Lersner: The far-famous Freyen Reich election and trade city Franckfurt am Mayn Chronica , Frankfurt am Main, 1706, p. 118 (digital scan)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ignaz Backes: The sentence commentary by Petrus Spitznagel von Frankfurt , in: Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale , Volume 22, Abbaye du Mont César, Löwen, 1955, page 110, (excerpt scan)
  2. ^ Frankfurter Architects and Engineers Association: Frankfurt am Main and its buildings , reprint at BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, p. 117, ISBN 3845724897 (Digitalscan)
  3. ↑ Ignaz Backes: The sentence dome of Petrus Spitznagel from Frankfurt , in: Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale , Volume 22, Abbaye du Mont César, Löwen, 1955, page 110; (Detail scan)
  4. ↑ P. Daniel of the Virgin Mary: Speculum Carmelitanum , Volume II., Part 5, p. 926, Antwerp, 1653; (Digital scan for Heinrich Bock)
  5. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, Mainz 1854, page 145; (Digital scan)
  6. ^ Upper Rhine Historical Commission: Regest of the Margraves of Baden and Hachberg, 1050-1515 , 1915, p. 159; (Digital scan)
  7. ↑ Joachim Kemper: Monastery reforms in the Worms diocese in the late Middle Ages , Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz, 2006, p. 287; Digital view
  8. ^ Franz Xaver Remling: History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, Mainz 1854, page 99; (Digital scan)
  9. Jump of documents with a picture of the document: The Speyer auxiliary bishop Peter (Spitznagel, titular bishop) from Myra (Mirra) and the Speyer bishop Johannes (II) consecrate an altar in the church of Lomersheim.  in the German Digital Library
  10. ↑ Ignaz Backes: The sentence commentary of Petrus Spitznagel from Frankfurt , in: Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale , Volume 22, Abbaye du Mont César, Löwen, 1955, p. 111; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Spitznagel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spitznagel, Peter; Spitznagel from Frankfurt, Petrus; Spitznagel from Frankfurt, Peter; Peter of Frankfurt; Peter of Frankfurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Carmelite Father, Titular Bishop of Myra and Auxiliary Bishop in the Principality of Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1405
DATE OF DEATH 1465
Place of death Bruchsal