Person Gobelinus

Tapestry person (also Gobelinus person; * 1358 in Paderborn or the immediate area, † November 17, 1421 in Böddeken near Paderborn ) was a historian and church reformer from the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn.

His main work, the consummate 1418 " Cosmidromius ", is one of the most important historical works of the 15th century.

Life

Tapestry person was born in 1358 in Paderborn or the immediate area. About his childhood and youth Nothing further is known.

At the age of 25, he was in Italy to be working at the Apostolic Chamber, the financial administration of the papal curia. 1383 he participated in the course of Pope Urban VI. to Naples against the local king Karl and held in 1384 along with Urban VI. in Lucera on. Together with Peter de Lupis, the papal Thesaurar and provost of Genoa, he traveled in 1385 to Benevento and drove 1385/1386 with the Pope at the southern tip of Italy around through the Strait of Messina to Genoa. There he received on April 21, 1386 along with 71 other candidates to the priesthood. In the same year he returned to Paderborn, where he initially remained active for the Apostolic Chamber.

From 1389 to 1408 he was rector of the Holy Trinity Chapel in Paderborn Cathedral, and from 1390 to 1410 pastor at the church of St. Pancras Paderborn market. The Trinity Chapel was located at that time in a poor state of repair and tapestry person to merits earned by the restoration and renovation.

Far more significant, however, is the 1408/ 09 successfully performed by him reform the monastery Böddeken. The Kanonissenstift founded by St. Meinolf soon after the translation of the relics of St. Liborius 836 from Le Mans to Paderborn Paderborn south at the end of the 14th century, completely prostrate. On behalf of and with the support of Wilhelm von Berg, Elect of the Bishopric of Paderborn, he wore the pin Augustinian canons from the Dutch town of Zwolle.

In the period 1409-1411 he was in dispute with the Benedictine monks of the Paderborn Abdinghofklosters. 1410 person traveled to Rome, where he attended the grave of Urban VI. In the years 1411 to 1418 / 21, he was first a canon and later dean at Marienstift in Bielefeld Neustadt, where he reformed the statutes. In 1417 he presented his music treatise finished and on June 1, 1418 the Cosmidromius. On January 15, 1421, he built his will in Böddeken, where he died on 17 November 1421 and where he was buried.

Works

  • " Vita Sancti Meinulfi " to 1415/1420 biography of the Holy Meinolf
  • " Tractatus musicae scientiae ", 1417
  • " Cosmidromius, hoc est Chronicon non- sale complectens re ecclesiae et Reipublicae ", 1418
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