Quia venerabilis
dominus Leonard Niederhoff (*ca. 1485 – †1545), doctor of both canon and civil law, friend of Nicolaus Copernicus and executor of his will; studied in Cracow, Leipzig and Rome, where he obtained a doctoral degree; from 1511 parish priest of St. Bartholomew's Church in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1515 Canon of Ermland (Warmia), and from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1532 Dean of the Ermland Chapter; he also had a canonry in Kulm from which he resigned in 1533. In 1530, after Dantiscus' resignation, became a parish priest of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Gdańsk (KOPICZKO 2, p. 231; SBKW, p. 175)⌊Leonardus NiderhoffLeonard Niederhoff (*ca. 1485 – †1545), doctor of both canon and civil law, friend of Nicolaus Copernicus and executor of his will; studied in Cracow, Leipzig and Rome, where he obtained a doctoral degree; from 1511 parish priest of St. Bartholomew's Church in Gdańsk (Danzig); from 1515 Canon of Ermland (Warmia), and from 1519 Canon of Dorpat; from 1532 Dean of the Ermland Chapter; he also had a canonry in Kulm from which he resigned in 1533. In 1530, after Dantiscus' resignation, became a parish priest of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Gdańsk (KOPICZKO 2, p. 231; SBKW, p. 175)⌋ decanus Varmiensis et canonicus dictae ecclesiae
nostrae Culmensis per procuratores suos coram nobis personaliter constitutos
dictos
suos canonicatum et praebendam in personam honorabilis domini Vincencius Kerger (†before 1554), parish priest in Schoneck; 1533 Kulm canon (MAŃKOWSKI 1928)⌊Vincencii
KergerVincencius Kerger (†before 1554), parish priest in Schoneck; 1533 Kulm canon (MAŃKOWSKI 1928)⌋
plebani in Schoneck Włocławek diocese⌊Wladislaviensis diocesisWłocławek diocese⌋ in manibus nostris simpliciter
pure
et libere resignavit, nos vero huiusmodi resignationem ab ipsis
procuratoribus
dicti domini Leonardi ad Sancta Dei Evangelia, quod in dicta resignatione non
intervenit neque interveniet fraus dolus simoniae labes vel quaevis alia
illicita pactio vel corruptela recepto primitus in animam ipsius domini
Leonardi Niderhoff corporali iuramento recipientes praefatum dominum
Vincencium
in et ad dictos canonicatum et praebendam per manus nostrae traditionem et
capiti
suo impositionem investivimus et instituimus tenoreque praesentium
investimus
instituimus et de eisdem providemus stallum ei in choro et vocem in capitulo
cum
plenitudine iuris canonici in ipsis canonicatu et praebenda assignantes.
Quocirca vobis supradictis venerabilibus dominis Kulm Chapter ⌊canonicis capituli nostri
CulmensisKulm Chapter ⌋
fratribus nostris carissimis vestrumque cuilibet mandamus, quatenus praefatum
dominum
Vincencius Kerger (†before 1554), parish priest in Schoneck; 1533 Kulm canon (MAŃKOWSKI 1928)⌊VincenciumVincencius Kerger (†before 1554), parish priest in Schoneck; 1533 Kulm canon (MAŃKOWSKI 1928)⌋ in et ad dictos canonicatum et praebendam et ad eorum possessionem
corporalem
et realem auctoritate nostra praesentibus vobis hac in re commissa inducatis
ipsumque
in canonicum et in fratrem nomine dictorum canonicatus et praebendae in dicta
nostra ecclesia Culmensi recepto tamen primitus de observandis statutis et
consuetudinibus dictae ecclesiae nostrae Culmensis iuramento recipiatis ac
stallum
in choro ac vocem in capitulo cum plenitudine iuris canonici sibi
assignantes
nihilominusque de omnibus et singulis fructibus redditibus proventibus
iuribus
et obventionibus universis dictorum canonicatus et praebendae sibi integre
respondeatis et ab aliis, quorum interest, responderi faciatis.