Zutfeld Wardenberg

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Zutfeld Wardenberg (* unknown, probably in Stralsund ; † 1527 in Rome ) was a German clergyman.

Life

Born in Stralsund, Zutfeld, alternatively and more frequently in the sources, Zutpheld, Wardenberg studied at the University of Rostock from 1489 and received his bachelor's degree there in 1490/91 at the Philosophical Faculty . After his university studies, he received degrees as Magister (1492/93) and Doctor of Canon Law . He became dean at Güstrow Cathedral and Schwerin Cathedral , provost in Bützow and archdeacon in Rostock . After a period at the University of Greifswald , he was called to Rome after the appointment of the Schwerin bishop Peter Wolkow in 1508, where Wardenberg received the office of apostolic protonotary and chaplain . As such, Wardenberg represented the Mecklenburg dukes, but also Emperor Maximilian I , in some trials. In 1515 he became canon in Lübeck.

When the Schwerin Bishop Wolkow, against whom Wardenberg had strongly sided, died in 1516, the Mecklenburg Duke Heinrich V put his only seven year old son Magnus III. as Bishop of Schwerin, with Wardenberg as administrator of the boy de facto exercised the office of bishop. At the same time he became archdeacon of Tribsees and episcopal official . He took up residence in his hometown of Stralsund, where he soon became hostile to the city council and the citizens because of some violations of spiritual jurisdiction, some of which resulted from the high fines imposed. The council then imposed increased taxes on the clergy during the war against Denmark in 1522. Wardenberg refused to pay these, whereupon he was threatened with severe fines. He left Stralsund together with Hippolytus Steinwehr and his Vice-Pleban Dr. Otto secretly, with the help of Joachim Wardenberg, Zutfeld's brother, and went to Rome.

From Rome he worked to restore his rights and to free his brother Joachim from urban imprisonment in Stralsund with the help of the Mecklenburg Duke. The efforts finally failed in 1525 when the Reformation in Stralsund introduced the Protestant faith as a religion.

He used his position in Rome and his relationships for power-conscious enrichment. He is considered the "richest with sinecures equipped curials northern Germany."

Wardenberg died in 1527 during the siege and sack of Rome ( Sacco di Roma ).

family

Wardenberg came from an old Stralsund patrician family. His parents were Henning Wardenberg (Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund) and Margaretha Wardenberg. He had at least one brother, Joachim Wardenberg, and three sisters. Magdalena's first marriage to Rolef Möller, Altermann of the Gewandhaus, was married and the mother of the later mayor Roloff Möller . Catharina was married to Heinrich Busch in her first marriage and to Caspar Hoyer in her second marriage. Dr. Caspar Hoyer, Canon at Brixen Cathedral , is a son of this second marriage. In 1540, Hoyer asked the Stralsund council for help in acquiring his uncle's inheritance (Stralsund City Archives, Rep. 3, No. 1032). The third sister Margarethe was married to Gerhard Schröder .

literature

  • Theodor Pyl :  Wardenberg, Zutfeld . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 166 f.
  • Rudolf Baier : Zütfeld Wardenberg , In: Stralsundische Histories , Stralsund 1902, pp. 20–39 Digitized in the digital library MV
  • Christiane Schuchard, Knut Schulz : Thomas Giese from Lübeck and his Roman notebook from 1507 to 1526. Schmidt-Römhild, 2003, pp. 29–32.
  • Andreas Röpcke : Zutpheld Wardenberg and the diocese of Schwerin. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher, Volume 131, 2016, pp. 311–334.
  • Ders .: Wardenberg, Zutpheld (1475–1527). Prelate and curial . In: Biographisches Lexikon von Pommern, Vol. 3 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V: Research on Pomeranian History, Vol. 48/3) , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2019, ed. v. Dirk Alvermann and Nils Jörn, pp. 327–329.
  • Jürgen Geiß-Wunderlich: Life in upheaval - Religiousness and political influence of the Stralsund family Wardenberg after the introduction of the Reformation . In: Baltic Studies NF 104 (2018), pp. 49–60.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Schuchard, p. 21.
  5. ^ Family tree of Johann Albert Dinnies in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, original in the Stralsund city archive
personal data
SURNAME Wardenberg, Zutfeld
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Schwerin bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH 1527
Place of death Rome