Bonagratia of Bergamo

Bonagratia of Bergamo ( * 1265 in Bergamo, † June 19, 1340 in Munich) was a late medieval Franciscan lay brother and lawyer.

Bonagratia entered 1309/10 in the Franciscan Order. Due to its excellent legal education, he rose rapidly and eventually became procurator of his order at the Curia in Avignon ( see Avignonesisches papacy ). He filled this position with great skill and a lot of skill. In connection with the theoretical poverty dispute polemicised Bonagratia, who was a pugnacious spirit and played an important role in this conflict, at first sharply against the Spirituals so-called (see About Tino da Casale ), the poverty of Christ and the apostles postulated and this for the Church demanded. He was briefly banned in 1312 after Valcabrère because he ', V. with the Spirituals, but could after the death of Clement against the compensation policy of the then Pope Clement return. He wrote this reason also a legally designed questio, in which he examined the legality of the papal Verbannungsbefehls.

When the Spirituals then by Pope John XXII. were persecuted, Bonagratia supported his Father General Michael of Cesena, who had taken a stand against the pope. Bonagratia was arrested some time in January 1323 because he had filed an appeal against the initial December 1322 published papal bull Ad conditorem, which was rejected by a majority of the Franciscans protest. Michael, Bonagratia and other Franciscans, including William of Ockham, fled in May 1328 from Avignon and went to Pisa, where at that time the Roman - German King Louis IV was staying, who found himself in conflict with the Pope.

Louis granted the Franciscans protection, the rest of the time they spent in Munich, where they were trying to enforce through their scholarly support for Ludwig its case against the Curia. The concerns of the dissidents to emphasize the poverty of Christ was brought into line with the objective of Louis to assert against the papacy independent empire. However, had the departure of the Franciscans by Michael of Cesena, a division of the Order of the consequence that only ended with his death. Pope John excommunicated them in June 1328 then helped Bonagratia with in drafting anti- papal polemics and supported up to his death, the policy of Louis.