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Ex necrologium de conventus OP Ripensis

From the necrology of the Friars Preachers in Ribe

 

Presented by J.G.G. Jakobsen, Centre for Dominican Studies of Dacia, 2013.

Last update: 2013.01.19

 

 

The medieval monastic convent did not only consist of the brethren or sisters living there. In one sense, also its deceased members remained an important part of the community with their memory being kept alive for future generations by readings of their names in the monastery church on the anniversary of their death days, combined with a common prayer from their live brethren and sisters for the benefit of their souls. In order to keep track of whom to pray for on each day, monastic communities kept ‘necrologies’, calendars with entries of names on deceased members of the community attributed to the particular day of their death; only rarely was the year of their death also included, as this was less important for the memorial function.

          Such necrologies were undoubtedly kept at every Dominican convent in the province of Dacia, but only one of them is partly preserved, as fragments of the necrology for the Friars Preachers in Ribe. The parchment on which the necrology was written found a new use around 1600, long after the dissolution of the convent, as binding for the register books of the town hall in Ribe, for which purpose two of the necrology pages were cut into shape. The extant fragments from this book binding cover 104 days or less than a third of the entire necrology, from within the period 1 May to 12 October.

          Although the fragments do not include any title of the list, it is evidently a necrology for the Dominican convent in Ribe. It includes the names of 83 deceased friars covering the entire lifetime of the convent, starting with Fr. Bero, “the first priest, who constructed the house” and Fr. Rano, “the first prior provincial”, to Fr. Johannes Conradi and Fr. Petrus Johannis, who both died in 1528. The necrology is obviously a transcript, apparently made by one hand (below marked as black text) around the 1440s (latest dated entries by this hand are from 1441), with later additions by other hands (marked as brown text) (Kinch 1853-56, 493). However, as the later hands also have added the abovementioned ‘constructor’ of the convent, Fr. Bero, it is not possible even to date the deceased ‘before or after 1450’ from the hands alone. Only in eight cases does the necrology itself provide the death years (from 1309-1528).

          The extant parts of the necrology have 85 entries of 83 deceased individuals and two general anniversaries – one for the benefactors of the Order and one for all the friars of the Order. At least 77 of the individuals seem to have been friars at the convent in Ribe. To judge from this, the entire necrology would have contained the names of about 270 deceased conventual friars. If each friar on average had an active career of 20-25 years, this would mean that for the entire 300 years-lifetime of the convent in Ribe, from its foundation in 1228 to its dissolution in 1531, it was manned with an average of 18-22 friars.

 

The extant fragments of the necrology for the convent of Friars Preachers in Ribe are preserved at The Provincial Archives of Northern Jutland (Landsarkivet for Nørrejylland) in Viborg. It has previously been published with comments by J. Kinch as ‘Nogle Brudstykker af et Nekrologium fra Dominikaner-Klosteret i Ribe’ in Kirkehistoriske Samlinger 1. ser. vol. II (Copenhagen 1853-56), 492-500.

 

 

The colour of the text indicates if it was made by the main scribe, from c. 1440s (black), or by one of the later hands (brown).

 

 

 

MARCIUS

 

 

1 March

Kalendas

Obiit frater Nicolaus Friis sacerdos

 

 

2 March

VI Non.

Obiit frater Nicolaus Magni fidelis terminarius

 

 

3 March

V Non.

Obiit frater Matheus lector Ripensis

Et frater E…..

 

 

4 March

IIII Non.

Obiit frater Bartholomæus Arusiensis

 

 

5 March

III Non.

 

 

 

6 March

II Non.

Obiit frater Nicolaus Esgeri lect…..

 

 

7 March

Nonis

 

 

 

8 March

VIII Idus

 

 

 

9 March

VII Idus

 

 

 

10 March

VI Idus

 

 

 

11 March

V Idus

 

 

 

12 March

IIII Idus

 

 

 

 

(…)

 

 

 

 

APRILIS

 

 

1 April

 

…..[Mar]rtinus sacerdos

et frater Pharao accolitus

 

 

2 April

 

 

 

 

3 April

 

 

 

 

4 April

 

…..os qui multum laboravit pro conventu anno Domini MCCCIX

 

 

5 April

 

 

 

 

6 April

 

 

 

 

7 April

 

…..skilli quodam prior Ripensis

 

 

8 April

 

 

 

 

9 April

 

…..novicius

Obiit frater Martinus sacerdos

 

 

10 April

 

…..obiit frater Nicolaus Thome terminarius sacerdos

 

 

11 April

 

 

 

 

12 April

 

…..sacerdos

Obiit frater Johannes Petri lector Ripensis

 

 

(…)

 

 

 

[MAI]

 

 

 

13 May

III Idus

Obiit frater Bero sacer(dos?) primus huius domus constructor

 

 

14 May

II Idus

Obiit frater Laurentius Conradi lector…..

 

 

15 May

Idibus

Obiit frater Laurentius Jacobi sacerdos

 

 

16 May

XVII Kal.

Obiit frater Johannes acolitus

 

 

17 May

XVI Kal.

 

 

 

18 May

XV Kal.

 

 

 

19 May

XIIII Kal.

 

 

 

20 May

XIII Kal.

 

 

 

21 May

XII Kal.

 

 

 

22 May

XI Kal.

 

 

 

23 May

X Kal.

Obiit frater Thucho

 

 

24 May

IX Kal.

 

 

 

25 May

VIII Kal.

 

 

 

26 May

VII Kal.

Obiit frater Johannes Conradi 1528

 

 

 

(…)

 

 

 

 

[JUNI]

 

 

 

13 June

 

 

 

 

14 June

 

 

 

 

15 June

 

 

 

 

16 June

 

…..(donatus?)

 

 

17 June

 

 

 

 

18 June

 

…..nes Petri speciat amicus

 

 

19 June

 

…..Andreas Johannis sacerdos

Obiit frater Petrus Johannis 1528

 

 

20 June

 

 

 

 

21 June

 

 

 

 

22 June

 

…..Cristernus Ebbonis sacerdos

 

 

23 June

 

…..Petrus Henrici sacerdos

Obiit frater Laurentius Brwn lector

 

 

24 June

 

 

 

 

25 June

 

 

 

 

26 June

 

…..Cristiernus Johannis cognomentoBalni

 

 

 

(…)

 

 

 

 

[JULI]

 

 

 

13 July

III Idus

Obiit frater …..

 

 

14 July

II Idus

Anno Domini 1518 obiit frater Laurentius sartor conversus fidelis dispensator

 

 

15 July

Idibus

Obiit frater Nicolaus Bund sacerdos

Frater (Petrus Gotzen …?)

 

 

16 July

XVII Kal.

Obiit frater Rano primus p….. (ord?)…..

 

 

17 July

XVI Kal.

Obiit frater Vincentius juvenis

 

 

18 July

XV Kal.

Obiit frater Nicolaus Henrici

 

 

19 July

XIIII Kal.

Obiit frater Jacobus sacerdos

Obiit frater Petrus Magni juvenis

 

 

20 July

XIII Kal.

Obiit frater Jonas (Nic..?) conversus

Obiit frater Petrus Erici sacerdos Calmarnnensis

 

 

21 July

XII Kal.

 

 

 

22 July

XI Kal.

 

 

 

23 July

X Kal.

Obiit frater Mathias Johannis juvenis

 

 

24 July

IX Kal.

 

 

 

25 July

VIII Kal.

Obiit frater Sivardus

 

 

26 July

VII Kal.

Obiit frater Clemens accolitus

 

 

 

(…)

 

 

 

 

AUGUST

 

 

 

13 August

Idibus

Obiit frater …..

 

 

14 August

XIX Kal.

Obiit frater Albertus Petri juvenis

 

 

15 August

XVIII Kal.

 

 

 

16 August

XVII Kal.

Obiit frater Nicolaus Inglon sacerdos

 

 

17 August

XVI Kal.

 

 

 

18 August

XV Kal.

Obiit frater Andreas Jacobi novicius

 

 

19 August

XIIII Kal.

Obiit frater Nicholaus Johannis juvenis

Item frater Jachobus Skædh sacerdos

 

 

20 August

XIII Kal.

 

 

 

21 August

XII Kal.

 

 

 

22 August

XI Kal.

Obiit frater Henricus Laly sacerdos

 

 

23 August

X Kal.

Obiit frater Johannes Henrici sacerdos

 

 

24 August

IX Kal.

Obiit frater Gregorius subdyaconus

 

 

25 August

VIII Kal.

Obiit frater Johannes Lub sacerdos

 

 

26 August

VII Kal.

Obiit frater Petrus Johannis prior Ripensis MCDXLI

 

 

 

(…)

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER

 

 

 

1 September

Kalendas

Obiit frater Henningus sacerdos

Item obiit frater Petrus Otthonis juvenis

 

 

2 September

IIII Non.

Obiit frater Lanxingus conversus

 

 

3 September

III Non.

Obiit frater Johannes Andree sacerdos

Et frater Johannes Cristerni novicius

 

 

4 September

II Non.

Obiit frater Petrus Amandus sacerdos

 

 

5 September

Nonis

Anniversarium familiarium benefactor. ordinis nostri

 

 

6 September

VIII Idus

Obiit frater Ascerus Murri sacerdos

Item obiit frater Andreas Cristierni dyaconus

 

 

7 September

VII Idus

Obiit frater Godefridus conversus

 

 

8 September

VI Idus

Obiit frater Johannes Tuonis lector Ripensis

 

 

9 September

V Idus

Obiit frater Job sacerdos

Item obiit frater Laurentius Severini subdyaconus

 

 

10 September

IIII Idus

Obiit frater Petrus novicius

 

 

11 September

III Idus

Obiit frater Johannes Ferken sacerdos

 

 

12 September

II Idus

Obiit frater Ovidius Michaelis prior Ripensis MCDXLI

Item frater Cristernus sacerdos 1489

 

 

 

(…)

 

 

 

 

OCTOBER

 

 

 

1 October

Kalendas

Obiit frater Thomas conversus

 

 

2 October

VI Non.

Obiit frater Andreas sartor conversus

 

 

3 October

V Non.

Obiit Evert Kremer maritus Lyzabeth Henrich

Frater Johannes Pauli

 

 

4 October

IIII Non.

Obiit frater Georgius professus

Frater Johannes Pauli

 

 

5 October

III Non.

Obiit frater Jacobus lector Ottonensis.

Et frater …..

 

 

6 October

II Non.

Obiit frater Severinus Johannis professus qui fuit submersus (inter Ripas et Hellwad?)

 

 

7 October

Nonis

Obiit frater Cristiernus Petri juvenis anno 1522

 

 

8 October

VIII Idus

 

 

 

9 October

VII Idus

 

 

 

10 October

VI Idus

Anniversarium omnium fratrum ordinis nostri.

Obiit frater Dominicus cocus conversus

 

 

11 October

V Idus

Obiit frater Petrus subdyaconus

 

 

12 October

IIII Idus

Obiit frater Offo Lundensis

 

 

 

 

Fragment for the period 1-12 September of the necrology for the convent of Friars Preachers in Ribe.

© Provincial Archives of Northern Jutland.

 

 

Centre for Dominican Studies of Dacia

Johnny G.G. Jakobsen, Department of Scandinavian Research, University of Copenhagen

Postal address: Njalsgade 136, DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark ● Email: jggj@hum.ku.dk