ExDOP
Ex Diplomatarium
Ordinis Predicatorum
Collected and edited by J.G.G. Jakobsen, Centre for Dominican Studies of Dacia, 2016 ff.
Ex Diplomatarium Ordinis Predicatorum (ExDOP)
is a web-published collection of full-text transcripts of diplomas concerning
the Order of Preachers in medieval Europe. Obviously, the aim is not to present
all such diplomas, only to offer easier access to a few chosen cases, which
have been of special interest to me in my studies of the Dominican Order in the
Middle Ages. The ExDOP only
includes diplomas concerning other Dominican provinces than that of Dacia (i.e.
Scandinavia and northern Estonia), as the Dacian material is web-published
separately in the Diplomatarium OP Dacie (DOPD). The ExDOP has been launched in September 2016 and is intended
to include texts from all non-Dacian diplomas referred to in my future articles
concerning the Friars Preachers. Since my studies mainly concern the northern
provinces of the Order, the ExDOP will predominantly
include material from the provinces of Anglia, Francia,
Saxonia, Teutonia, Hungaria,
Bohemia and Polonia.
Access
to each diploma transcript is provided from hyperlinks in the chronological
index below.
1227-05-05 Pope Gregory IX endorses the foundation of a convent of Friars
Preachers in Pomerania (Gdańsk, prov. Polonia).
1227-07-31 Pope Gregory IX authorizes a missionary campaign into Cumania (prov. Hungaria)
initiated by local Friars Preachers.
1228-03-21 Pope Gregory IX enjoins the Friars Preachers in prov. Hungaria to go and convert the Cumans;
Fr. Theodericus is appointed missionary bishop.
1229-09-13 Pope Gregory IX grants special privileges to Bishop Theodericus OP of Cumania and the
Dominican mission to the Cumans (prov. Hungaria).
1232-05-12 Pope Gregory IX enjoins the Dominican prior provincial of Polonia to report on the conditions for the Catholic clergy
working in Ruthenia.
1233-02-24 Pope Gregory IX enjoins the Dominican prior provincial of Polonia to promulgate the need of avoiding mixed
Catholic-Orthodox marriages in Ruthenia.
1233-03-15 Pope Gregory IX authorizes the Dominican prior provincial of Polonia and the Friars Preachers working in Russia to grant
indulgence and absolution.
1234-05-12 Pope Gregory IX grants special privileges to the Friars
Preachers working in Ruthenia (prov. Polonia) due to
their difficult conditions.
1234-06-15 Pope Gregory IX takes Ulricus (OP?)
and his brethren working in Russia (prov. Polonia)
under his papal protection.
1234-09-08 Bishop Nikolaus of Riga donates a
house in Riga (prov. Teutonia) to the Friars Preachers in the hope that they
will continue help rooting Christianity in Livonia.
1234-09-10 Legate William of Modena appoints Fr. Henricus
of the Friars Preachers to bishop of Ösel-Wiek (prov.
Teutonia).
1238-01-13 Landmeister Hermann Balk of the
Teutonic Order donates a site in Elbląg (prov. Polonia) for the foundation of a Dominican convent.
1242-03-17 Legate William of Modena states that the Friars Preachers in Elbląg (prov. Polonia) are
to assist with the mission to the Prussians.
1251-03-07 Pope Innocent IV enjoins the Friars Preachers (in prov. Dacia,
Polonia and Teutonia) to
collect money in support of the Livonian crusade.
1263-04-02 Grandmaster Anno von Sangershausen
of the Teutonic Order founds a convent of Friars Preachers in Toruń (prov. Polonia).
1311-02-17 Pope Clement V urges the Archbishop of Riga to found convents
of Friars Minor and -Preachers in every town of Livonia (prov. Saxonia).
1312-05-23 Prior Daniel
of the Friars Preachers in Tartu (prov. Saxonia) testifies to the misdeeds
performed by the Teutonic Order in Livonia.
1336-11-15 Bishop Engelbert of Tartu prohibits
the Teutonic Order from harassing Friars Preachers and -Minor in their mission
to the Livonians (prov. Saxonia).
Centre for Dominican
Studies of Dacia
Johnny G.G. Jakobsen, Department of Nordic Research, University of
Copenhagen
Postal address: Njalsgade
136, DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark ● Email: jggj@hum.ku.dk