Person or Institution #2037
Johannes BLANKENFELD
Johannes Blankenfeld (*1481 – †1527), member of the council of Prince-Elector Joachim von Brandenburg; 1512-1514 procurator-general of the Teutonic Order in Rome; papal nuncio in Augsburg, Berlin, Kopenhagen; 1514-1524 bishop of Reval; 1518-1524 - of Dorpat; 1524-1527 archbishop of Riga; firm opponent of evangelical reforms in Livonia; in 1525 accused of contacts with Muscovy and arrested by order of the Master of the Livonian Order, Wolter of Plattenberg; in 1526, after the signing of an agreement in Wolmar, he went to Spain (on behalf of Plattenberg) to the court of emperor Charles V; died in Torquemada (NDB, Bd. 10, p. 520) | |||||||||
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