Sørle

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Sørle (Norrøn: Sǫrli ) († May 1, 1254 in Nidaros ) was Archbishop of Norway from 1252 to 1254 .

After the death of Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson Tafse , the cathedral chapter elected Canon Sørle as archbishop in the spring of 1252. From the Håkon Håkonssons saga it emerges that he was previously a canon in Hamar . But a papal letter from 1253 describes him as a former archpriest in Oslo . However, that does not rule out that he was previously in the cathedral chapter at Hamar.

Even before Sørle was consecrated by the Pope, he issued a document stating that he was donating a 'mensa communis' from the bishop's tenth of the Kreuzkirche, the Olavskirche and the Klemenskirche in Nidaros and the stone church in Bynes. It is believed that this was a condition of the cathedral chapter for its election.

In the summer of 1252 Sørle traveled to Rome to receive the ordination as archbishop, which he received in the autumn. In 1253 he traveled again to Rome and, like his predecessors, was given the power to dispense 100 men who wanted to become priests from their illegitimate birth. He was also empowered to exempt clerics from the excommunication imposed on them for acts of violence against clergy or religious or for arson. This can refer to the turmoil of the civil war in which, among other things, the Elgeseter monastery was burned down. In the presence of the Pope he immediately appointed the Dominican Peter Bishop of Hamar and the Canon Richard of St. Andrews in Scotland, previously a chaplain to the Cardinal Priest John de Tollet of San Lorenzo in Lucina , a Cistercian , as Bishop of the Hebrides . There the bishop's seat had remained vacant since the death of Bishop Simon in 1243. With this consecration in the presence of the Pope, he made it clear that the Hebrides belonged to the Archdiocese of Nidaros and rejected the influence of the Archdiocese of York on the Hebrides. After his return to Nidaros in 1253 he arranged the maintenance of the cathedral chapter, but died soon afterwards.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dybdahl writes in Norsk biografisk leksikon that he did not become archbishop until 1253. But the Pope already calls Sørli in a letter of November 18, 1252 to King Håkon "archiepiscopus Nidrosiensis". Diplomatarium Norvegicum Vol. 1 No. 46.
  2. ↑ a b Rudolph Keyser: Den norske kirkes historie und kathocismen. Vol. 1. Christiania 1856. p. 419.
  3. ↑ Sørle must have returned to Nidaros immediately after his consecration in 1252. Because there is a letter from him from 1252 as Archbishop of Nidaros.
  4. ^ Papal letter regarding the ordination of the Dominican Peter of March 11, 1253.
  5. ↑ Simon Lloyd: "King Henry III, the Crusade and the Mediterranean". In: Michael Jones and Malcolm Vale: England and her Neighbors, 1066-1453: Essays in Honor of Pierre Chaplais . London 1989. pp. 97-119. Fn. 91.
  6. ^ Letter of confirmation from the Pope dated March 14, 1253.

literature

predecessor Office successor
Sigurd Eindridesson Tafse Archbishop of Nidaros
1253–1254 		Einar Smjørbak Gunnarsson
personal data
SURNAME Sørle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sǫrli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Nidaros
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1254
Place of death Trondheim