Walter Kerlinger

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Walter Kerlinger OP (* before 1345 in Erfurt ; † 1373 ibid) was a Dominican and worked as an inquisitor .

Life

Kerlinger came from a patrician family from Erfurt. He is attested in 1345 as a lector of the Erfurt Dominican Studies. On December 27, 1349 he is mentioned as a preacher monk of the Dominicans. From 1369 to 1373 he was the tenth provincial of the Order of Saxonia .

On October 11, 1364, Pope Urban V appointed him inquisitor. Its activity was directed against the movements of the beguines and flagellants .

Under Kerlinger, their houses in Eisenach , Erfurt and Mühlhausen were closed. The residents were subject to the ban until they renounced their heresy. Around 1368, when the persecution began, around 400 beguines and begarians lived in Erfurt. Of these, 200 repented and were able to stay in the city, the rest had to leave the city because of the papal ban. Depending on the source, one or two of them were convicted of continued heresy and burned at the stake.

In Nordhausen , too, there were seven executions under Kerlinger.

Kerlinger was also involved in the dispute over the Sachsenspiegel . The Augustinian hermit Johannes Klenkok had written an indictment around 1369 against articles of the legal code that were supposedly questionable under canon law under the title Dekadikon . A copy of the Dekadikon headed Klenkok Kerlinger to with a request for examination. Walter Kerlinger forwarded the letter to the Magdeburg Council, which thereupon publicly opposed Klenkok's actions with a missive.

literature

  • Bernd Kemter: The Lord's Hunters. An Inquisitor in Central Germany , Verlag Neue Literatur, Jena 2003, ISBN 978-3-934141-64-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martin Erbstösser, Ernst Werner: Ideological problems of medieval Plebejertums: The free-spirited heresy and its social roots . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1960, p. 108.
  2. ^ Ingrid Würth: Geissler in Thuringia. The emergence of a late medieval heresy . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-005791-0 , p. 432.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Wigger : Documentary notices about the Beghinen and Begharden houses in Rostock . In: Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . Vol. 47, 1882, p. 14; online in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Wigger refers to the Chronicle of Detmar , see: The Chronicles of the Lower Saxony Cities. Lübeck. Leipzig, 1884. Digitized on archive.com Chap. 733, p. 539 (= Hamburg edition 1829, vol. 1, p. 290).
  4. ↑ Herman Haupt:  Schmid, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 683.
  5. ↑ Lars Rentmeister: The relationship between state and church in the late Middle Ages using the example of the discussion about the Sachsenspiegel . Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2016, DNB 1099952247 (Dissertation FU Berlin 2016, 473 pages full text online PDF, free of charge, 473 pages 59.63 MB), p. 258 f.
personal data
SURNAME Kerlinger, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Monk of the Dominican Order
DATE OF BIRTH before 1345
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH 1373
Place of death Erfurt