Reinbold Vener

Reinbold Vener (the elder), also called Remboldus, (* in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † 1408 ) was a canon lawyer who worked in Strasbourg .

Reinbold Vener was born as a member of the respected and wealthy patrician family Vener from Schwäbisch Gmünd. His father Eberhard was a judge at the mayor's court in the city.

Reinbold married a Caecilia in his first marriage, with whom he had five children, in his second marriage Reinbold married Margarete Spatzinger, a relative of the Strasbourg town clerk Werner Spatzinger. He had fathered four sons and one illegitimate son. Best known among his children are Job and Reinbold Vener the Younger. He was able to marry because he had only received minor orders.

Reinbold Vener studied at the University of Paris, where he obtained the academic degree of a Magister artium in 1356. He then studied law in Bologna from 1359 . It was later referred to as “in iure canonico peritus” and “utriusque iuris peritus vir”. He appears to have moved to Strasbourg before 1370 and from 1371 he held the office of official, de facto head of the episcopal judicial authority, under the bishops Lamprecht von Brunn (1371-1374) and Friedrich von Blankenstein (1375-1393). He was also involved in the Strasbourg Beguine Trial of 1374 and possibly also in the drafting of an extensive set of statutes intended for the courts of the diocese (1388). Vener received canonicals from the Strasbourg foundations of St. Thomas and Jung-St. Peter. At the beginning of the 1390s he turned to Roman obedience with Bishop Friedrich von Blankenstein. In 1393 he was briefly expelled from the city and made an official in Speyer . After that he resigned after his return and a capture in 1394 because of disputes over the occupation of the bishopric in 1394 from the official office. He later appeared as an advocate at the clerical court, where he is still several times until 1405. In 1400 Reinbold Vener, together with Job Vener, campaigned for the recognition of Ruprecht as a Roman-German king in legal opinions .

He died before December 12, 1408 and was born in the Jung-St. Peter buried in Strasbourg.

literature

• Hermann Heimpel : The veins of Gmünd and Strasbourg . Göttingen 1982
• Ansgar Frenken:  Vener, Reinbold. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 1569-1571.