Jens Grand
Jens Grand (* 1260, † May 30, 1327 in Avignon, also: Johann Grant, Jonas Fursat ( Feuersaat ) Grand) was a Danish politician and church successively provost in Roskilde, Archbishop of Lund, Riga and Bremen.
Life
Jens Grand was from a Danish noble family and was related to the archbishop of Lund Jakob Erlandsen and the influential Danish nobility Hvide. A group led by Stig Andersen Hvide the Elder. had the 1286 King Erik V of Denmark murdered. Grand was in 1289 ( to 1302 ) Archbishop of Lund. The self- conscious church policy Grands in a time of separation and the power struggle between the Church and the institutions of the secular power gave the following King Erik VI. together with the family belonging to the Hvide clan to view Jens Grand not only as politically inconvenient but as extremely threatening.
Erik the VI. had to take into custody and imprisoned Grand 1294 on Søborg Castle in the north of the main Danish island of Zealand. After one and a half years in prison he succeeded where the outbreak and the flight to Bornholm, where he asked of his castle Hammershus from Pope Boniface VIII for help and support. This issued an interdict, and laid the spell on King Erik VI. , What these but not overly impressed. The crisis between Denmark and the Catholic Church was not until the year 1302. The agreement did not bring the hoped Grand compensation, the settlement payment of Denmark in the church was rather low and Grand was recalled as archbishop of Lund. He was offered the Archbishopric of Riga, this offer hit Grand but from. He spent the next year in Paris.
In 1310 he was appointed by Pope Clement V. Archbishop of Bremen. The diocese was lost after years of Sedisvakanz in chaos. Among other things, Heinrich von Borch had occupied the castle VOERDE. Grand succeeded initially, to bring peace in the pen. In order to consolidate the pin Finance, he raised a tax of 10% on all income of the clergy. It was stirring resistance, the following dispute to Grand behaved stubborn, did not accept the legitimate objections of his opponents or ignored them completely. Instead, he imposed ecclesiastical penalties and excommunicated his opponents, which was again ignored by them. 1314 allied itself, Bremen, by the Count of Hoya, Oldenburg and Diepholz against Grand. It came to a lawsuit that was decided against Grand. The penalties imposed by him and excommunications were lifted. Grand began to move restlessly through the pin, but was taken nowhere benevolent. He was jailed twice and even beaten in Ostfriesland publicly by a woman.
The Bremen Cathedral Chapter 1316 Grand sat on the pretext that he was mentally disturbed, and appointed John I., the eldest son of the Duke of Brunswick- Lüneburg administrator. Grand moved to Avignon in front of the Curia and strained a lawsuit against his dismissal on. During the process, dragged on, devastated turmoil the stray archbishopric. 1317 designated a papal collector, the archbishopric of Bremen as a hideout of bandits. Niederer clergy, nobility and commoners wanted back the archbishop.
It was only in 1322 precipitated Pope John XXII. judgment: He explained Grands dismissal null and void, but confirmed the same time John I as an administrator. Grand could not return against the resistance of the city and the cathedral chapter in the pen, but transferred the official duties on locally largely powerless vicars. He remained in Avignon, where he died in 1327.