Raymond Peraudi
Raimund (us) Peraudi OESA (French Raimond Pérault; born May 28, 1435 Saint- Germain -de- Marencennes, † September 5, 1505 in Viterbo) was cardinal and bishop of Gurk and Saintes.
Life
Raimund Peraudi was born in southern France, the son of poor parents. In his youth he was a school teacher in his hometown and in La Rochelle. He joined the Augustinian Order and was prior of the monastery left but then again. From 1470 he began his higher studies at the University of Paris. In 1476 he became master of theology. In the same year he was Domdekan of the cathedral chapter of his home diocese of Saintes and began his work as drain commissioner and theological writer. In 1479 he was archdeacon in the former French province of Aunis and 1481 Apostolic prothonotary of the Roman Curia.
1486 he was appointed to the drain commissioner for France and later papal legate and indulgence preachers of the crusade against the Turks in Germany and Northern Europe. In addition, he was entrusted with the administration of his native diocese of Saintes. During this time he traveled to Hamburg, Braunschweig, Erfurt and Frankfurt am Main in 1488 and returns back to Rome.
The appreciation in the widely Come secular priests Kaiser Friedrich III. and his son Maximilian I enjoyed, may have been crucial to his appointment in 1491 as Bishop of Gurk and Austrian Chancellor. He was the first foreigner to the Bishop of Gurk in Carinthia chair. On February 21, 1491 he took of the cathedral in Gurk possession.
In the following years he has been tirelessly active in diplomatic services for the Pope and the Emperor. He gave already in 1488 the ceasefire between Frederick III. and Matthias Corvinus, 1489 and 1492 the peace between Maximilian I and Charles VIII in 1503, and together with the Duke Friedrich of Schleswig and Hamburg Albert Krantz the contract between the Sten Sture the Elder with. allied six Wendish towns under the leadership of Lübeck, and John I of Denmark.
Thus he remained in his diocese often long periods of time away and got in the person of Nicholas Kaps a suffragan bishop set aside.
Two years after his appointment as Bishop Peraudi 1493 was Pope Alexander VI. was added to the College of Cardinals with the title of S. Maria Nuova in Cosmedin. Emperor Friedrich III. tried for some time to the cardinal collection Peraudis.
1495 Peraudi would have been willing to resign as bishop of Gurk to leave vacant the office by Maximilian I.. To prevent the preferred candidate of Maximilian, the Swabians Burkhard, Peraudi took of his resignation again distance. 1501 succeeded Maximilian I. Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg use as coadjutor with right of succession.
In 1500 he proclaimed the jubilee indulgence in Germany and Scandinavia and several Subkommissare worked for him. He visited in 1503, among other Bremen; He gained drain funds and held sermons in the Bremen Cathedral, and Bremen in Paul monastery. For a large procession of 1503, in Lübeck Steffen Arndes a printed invitation leaf.
1503 Peraudi was also Bishop of Saintes. 1504 he returned to Rome. On September 5, 1505 Cardinal Peraudi died on a legation trip to Viterbo and was buried there in the Augustinian order associated church of the Holy Trinity.
Portrait
In art history is discussed, whether in the 1942 burned in St. Mary 's Church in Lübeck monumental panel painting (250 x 357 cm) of Gregor Fair a portrait of Cardinal Raymond Peraudi was included. The Bernt Notke painting attributed shows after a strong opinion of the art historical literature, the portraits of real persons that can be assigned partially fixed ( so the canon Adolf Greverade ). Then Peraudi ware possibly the Cardinal, who enters the picture above right.