Wilhelm von Boldensele
Wilhelm von Boldensele , actually Otto de Nyenhusen , († around 1339 in Cologne ) was the author of the Liber de quibusdam ultramarinis partibus et praecipue de Terra sancta , a travelogue that was widespread in the Middle Ages.
Life
Otto von Nyenhausen was born as the son of the ministerial ministerial Johannes von Nyenhausen (presumably Neuenhausen near Bremerhaven), who was in the service of the Archbishop of Bremen, and a noble lady from the Lüneburg family of Boldensele.
Otto came to the Dominican monastery of St. Paul in Minden , but left it at his own request in 1330 and from then on carried the name Wilhelm von Boldensele. He traveled to Avignon , where he received absolution from the Curia for his unauthorized exit from the order.
In 1332 he began a pilgrimage to Palestine via the port of Noli , which led him to Egypt and the St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai . The reasons for the departure and the exact circumstances of the trip are still unclear. Nevertheless, he was in 1335 at the Holy grave in Jerusalem for grave Knights defeated.
After his return he stayed in 1336 in Königsaal with Abbot Peter von Zittau . From there he traveled back to Avignon in 1337. There he met Cardinal Elias Talleyrand , for whom he wrote a report on his trip. After he had completed this in September 1337, he presumably made the decision to return to the Königsaal and enter the convent there. However, he died in Cologne in 1339.
Travel report
The report Liber de quibusdam ultramarinis partibus et praecipue de Terra sancta was written in 1337 at the suggestion of Elias Talleyrand in Avignon. Wilhelm von Boldensele mainly reports on striking buildings and dispenses with the mythical stories typical of this era.
reception
The travelogue was translated into French in 1351. At the end of the 14th century, it was translated into German, more precisely into Ripuarian .
In addition to Ludolf von Sudheim , Jean de Mandeville was influenced by this travelogue.
literature
- Marie Luise Bulst-Thiele , FJ Worstbrock: Wilhelm von Boldensele. In: Author's Lexicon Sp. 1092-1095
- Ursula Ganz-Blättler: Devotion and Adventure: Reports of European Jerusalem and Santiago pilgrims (1320-1520). Tübingen 1990 ISBN 3-8233-4003-4
- Wilhelm Heyd: Boldensele, Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 96 f.
- Gabriele Schwarz: Boldensele, Wilhelm von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 430 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Guilielmus de Boldensele in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Author lexicon online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maria Christine Meindl: "The Holy Land in Late Medieval Travel Reports" (PDF; 528 kB), University of Vienna 2010
- ↑ The exact sequence of his travels in the Holy Roman Empire is unclear.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilhelm von Boldensele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otto de Nyenhusen (real name); Guilielmus de Boldensele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Author of a travelogue that was widely used in the Middle Ages |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th century or 14th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1339 |
| Place of death | Cologne |