Uffe Thrugotsen

Uffe Thrugotsen († 15th or December 16th 1252 in Lund ) was from about 1228 until his death Archbishop in the Archdiocese of Lund .

Life

Before that he was probably canon at Lund Cathedral . As he was a particularly ardent advocate of church demands, he tried to enforce priestly celibacy shortly after taking office and was supported in this by the papal legate who came to Lund in 1230. In doing so, however, he experienced fierce opposition from the priests of his archdiocese. He received support from Pope Gregory IX. and from King Waldemar II. 1232 the clergy of Skåne gave in and gave way.

Uffe Thrugotsen crowned Waldemars Erik Plogpenning's successor . He managed to get back large parts of Bornholm , which Waldemar the Great had taken from the archbishopric in a dispute with Archbishop Eskil . When King Waldemar regained Estonia in the Treaty of Stensby in 1238 with the Order of Teutonic Knights , he installed a bishop in Tallinn . This became the starting point of an ongoing dispute between the archbishop and the king over the right to appoint ecclesiastical offices. He took part in the assembly of Møn , at which the Jutian land law was proclaimed.

Under Waldemar's successor, Erik Plogpenning, there were constant disputes between the church and the king. When the king levied a tax on every plow in 1249, he supported the revolt of the peasants of Skåne.

In 1250 he crowned King Abel , but the conflict remained.

He also made large donations to Lund Cathedral and helped found the Franciscan monasteries in Roskilde in 1237 and in Lund in 1238.

literature

• Uffe Thrugotsen . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 17 : Svend Tveskjæg – Tøxen . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1903, p. 354 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Peder Saxesen	Archbishop of Lund 1228–1252	Jakob Erlandsen