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Letter #4824

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Ermland (Warmia) Chapter
Heilsberg (Lidzbark), 1541-04-08

English register:

Dantiscus is willingly getting involved in the matter of the audacious construction project (insolens structura) [of a mill on the Pasłęka River]. On the appointed inspection date [26 April], he promises to send his chancellor [Nikolaus Human] and the starost of Braunsberg (Braniewo) [Georg von Preucken]. He will instruct them to safeguard the interests of the chapter.




Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, in secretary's hand, GStA PK, XX. HA Hist. StA Königsberg, HBA, C 1a, K. 497

 

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Venerabiles Domini, fratres sincere dilecti.

Libenter pro officio et benevolentia in Fraternitates Vestras operam nostram in negotiis insolentis structurae impendimus eoque pro die constituto Nicolaus Human (*ca. 1480 – †1543), at least in 1527 dean of the Guttstadt chapter; 1528–1538 provost; in 1529 judicial vicar of Ermland; public notary; chancellor to the bishops of Ermland Mauritius Ferber and Ioannes Dantiscus, at least until January 1543 (KOPICZKO 2, p. 132; WOELKY 1866, p. 287; PSGPK 5, p. 7-8)⌊cancellariumNicolaus Human (*ca. 1480 – †1543), at least in 1527 dean of the Guttstadt chapter; 1528–1538 provost; in 1529 judicial vicar of Ermland; public notary; chancellor to the bishops of Ermland Mauritius Ferber and Ioannes Dantiscus, at least until January 1543 (KOPICZKO 2, p. 132; WOELKY 1866, p. 287; PSGPK 5, p. 7-8)⌋ et Georg von Preucken (Georg von Pröck, Georg von Proyken) (†1549), In 1523, after the death of Fabian von Lusian (Jan Łuzjański), bishop of Ermland (Warmia), he refused, without royal authorization, to swear an oath to representatives of the Ermland Chapter, Tiedemann Giese and Leonard Niederhof, and expelled them from Braunsberg; until 1523 commandant of Heilsberg; under Bishops Fabian von Lusian and Mauritius Ferber, reeve of the Ermland bishopric; at least in 1525–1549 starost of Braunsberg (Braniewo) (BORAWSKA 1984, p. 156-157; RC, 244, 252; HARTMANN 1525-1550, No. 7, 1142; AAWO, AK, Dok. Kap. R 2/17)⌊capitaneum nostrum BrunsbergensemGeorg von Preucken (Georg von Pröck, Georg von Proyken) (†1549), In 1523, after the death of Fabian von Lusian (Jan Łuzjański), bishop of Ermland (Warmia), he refused, without royal authorization, to swear an oath to representatives of the Ermland Chapter, Tiedemann Giese and Leonard Niederhof, and expelled them from Braunsberg; until 1523 commandant of Heilsberg; under Bishops Fabian von Lusian and Mauritius Ferber, reeve of the Ermland bishopric; at least in 1525–1549 starost of Braunsberg (Braniewo) (BORAWSKA 1984, p. 156-157; RC, 244, 252; HARTMANN 1525-1550, No. 7, 1142; AAWO, AK, Dok. Kap. R 2/17)⌋ mittemus. Quibus iniuncturi sumus, ut omne id, quod pro decore et commodo Fraternitatum Vestrarum futurum esse agnoverint, quantum studiosius possunt, transigant.

Quas feliciter valere optamus.