Johannes Ambundii
John Ambundi (also: [? ] Abundi, Ambundij, Habundi, Habindi, Habendi, Almanni ) of Swan ( † 14 May or June 16, 1424 ) was Bishop of Chur and the Archbishop of Riga.
Life
His date of birth is unknown, he was first attested in 1384 and probably originates from the area of Schwaan. It was in 1391 under the intituliert Baccalarii at the University of Prague lawyers, later Dr. Holy Scripture and canon law, appears after 1412 on the orders of the Bishop of Bamberg under the visitators of the Scots monastery of St. Aegidii to Nuremberg.
As a canon of the Church and provost of Eichstätt Herrieden he received the Council of Constance for himself and the bishop to Eichstädt 1414 or 1415. There he took on the German nation a prominent position, he comes in many negotiations before partly as commissarias, partly as deputatus same.
On November 27, 1416 he was elected Bishop of Chur, confirmed by Archbishop John II of Mainz and consecrated in the following year on March 13 to Heppenheim solemnly. Shortly afterwards Ambundi returned to the council. There, at that time called for the Italians in association with the French and Spaniards immediate election of a pope, while the German nation strove previous execution of the reformation of the church. As it should be the Cardinals managed to get by promises Archbishop John V of Wallenrode of Riga and Ambundi to their side and to enforce due to the influence of these men at the Emperor Sigismund and the German nation that fatal for the further development of the papal election. On November 11, 1417 Pope Martin V was proclaimed. In the following year John of Wallenrodt got his wish according to the diocese of Liège, and appointed under the 11th July of the same year " from the recommendation of the Emperor " of Pope John Ambundi his successor as Archbishop of Riga.
About Lübeck and then ship reached the prince of the church in the distance, Nordic country. Already on October 13, 1418, he took part in the peace negotiations between the Teutonic Order and Poland to Wileny. Well it may be true that it would have been desirable Ambundi, south to take in the beautiful bishopric of Brixen; but also the Teutonic gentlemen were not well pleased with the papal decision. Ambundi was a hard man and very sparse, " not to praise indeed is to great men ," writes an order Kaplan; greater concern aroused that Ambundi was sworn of the Council of the Emperor Sigismund, and was the same for a minion. The Order sought to obtain Livonia as an independent possession of the kingdom; now feared that Ambundi will act in the opposite direction, perhaps even let the emperor borrow. Without any reason, this distrust was difficult. Ambundi did not move to accept the religious habit, and its influence may be traced to that on January 14, 1423, the cathedral chapter Riga'sche the Pope to repeal the bull Bonifacii IX. , By which the Church was incorporated Riga'sche the Order was concerned. Even otherwise Ambundi did not show, a docile instrument of the Order. In 1421, the same pope delegated judge was in a dispute between the King of Sweden and the Bishop of Uppsala. Only recently recovered from an illness, he seems to have moved to Sweden in person. 1422 he convened the Prussian bishops to a council, but was omitted on the same ideas of the Grand Master.