Stephan Grube

Stephan Grube OT (* 1450 in Leipzig ; † December 20, 1483 in Riga ) was Archbishop of Riga from 1480 until his death .

Life

Grube came from a wealthy middle-class family in Leipzig. After studying in Leipzig and Bologna , he first became a religious priest, later Tressler in a Thuringian religious house. Soon he moved to the Ballei Apulia . Here he was appointed Bishop of Troy in 1474 after the intercession of King Ferdinand I by Pope Sixtus IV , who remained his lifelong patron . From 1478 he applied to the Curia for the office of General Procurator of the Teutonic Order in Rome and was finally successful in 1480. From this position he applied successfully and again against the interests of the Grand Master for the office of Archbishop. From the income of the diocese, which was estimated at 800 florins , he had to give Cardinal Raffaele Riario a pension of 400 florins. He also received the Apulia ballot, which only reverted to the Pope after his death, but not to the Order.

literature

• Leonid Arbusow : Livonia's clergy from the 12th to 16th centuries. In: Yearbook for Genealogy, Heraldry and Sphragistics . 1901, p. 10
• Jaron Sternheim: Political Actors between the Papal Curia and Livonia - the case of Stephan Grube, Archbishop of Riga (1480–1483) . In: Anti Selart , Matthias Thumser (ed.): Livonia - a region at the end of the world? Research on the relationship between center and periphery in the late Middle Ages. , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne u. Weimar 2017, pp. 237-258.

Web links

• Stephan Grube in the German biography
• Personal data Stephan Grube at the Herder Institute

Remarks

1. ↑ Konrad Eubel : Hierarchia Catholica medii aevi II: from anno 1431 usque ad annum 1503 perducta . Editio altera. Münster 1913, p. 223.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes Paulus Vassel	Bishop of Troy 1474–1480	Scipione Piscicelli
New Year's Eve Stodewescher	Archbishop of Riga 1480–1483	Michael Hildebrand