Ponsa
Ponsa | |
|---|---|
Bishop of Bosnia | |
| Appointed | 1238 |
| Term ended | 1270/72 |
| Predecessor | John of Wildeshausen |
| Successor | Roland |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 26 April 1238 by Theodoric of Cumania |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1270/72 |
Ponsa or Pousa (
Bishop of Bosnia from 1238 to 1270 (or 1272). He was appointed by Pope Gregory IX in an effort to combat the autonomous Bosnian Church, but found no support in Bosnia
. He fled the country in the 1240s, never to return.
Appointment
Ponsa was born in the
Bishop of Cumania.[2] Ponsa was also to be assigned jurisdiction over Zachlumia, but probably only its western part, as the rest belonged to Serbia.[4]
Episcopate
Ponsa was consecrated by Bishop Theodoric on 26 April 1238.
Ponsa's episcopate lasted over three decades,Archdiocese of Kalocsa instead of the Diocese of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). After a lengthy deliberation, the pope complied with the request on 26 August 1247. The official replacement did not happen until the beginning of the 14th century.[10]
Ponsa is last mentioned as a living person in September 1270. He died by March 1272, when Roland first appears as his successor.[1] There is a fringe theory, claimed by Benedictine librarian and archivist Géza Karsai, that Ponsa was identical with Anonymus (or Master P.), author of the Gesta Hungarorum.[11]
References
- ^ a b Zsoldos 2011, p. 85.
- ^ a b Ternovácz 2017, p. 256.
- ^ a b Ternovácz 2016, p. 220.
- ^ a b Fine 1994, p. 145.
- ^ a b Fine 2007, p. 127.
- ^ Barun 2003, p. 78.
- ^ a b c d Fine 2007, p. 133.
- ^ a b Ternovácz 2017, p. 257.
- ^ a b Barun 2003, p. 79.
- ^ Ternovácz 2016, p. 222.
- ^ Vékony 1991, p. 355.
Sources
- Barun, Anđelko (2003). Svjedoci i učitelji: povijest franjevaca Bosne Srebrene (in Serbo-Croatian). Svjetlo riječi.
- ISBN 0-472-08260-4.
- Fine, John Van Antwerp Jr. (2007). The Bosnian Church: Its Place in State and Society from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century. Saqi. ISBN 978-0-86356-503-8.
- Ternovácz, Bálint (2016). "A boszniai latin püspökség története 1344-ig [The History of the Latin Bishopric of Bosnia until 1344]". In Fábián, Laura; et al. (eds.). Micae Mediaevales V (in Hungarian). ISBN 978-963-284-712-2.
- Ternovácz, Bálint (2017). "Domonkosok Boszniában a rend megtelepedésétől a 14. század közepéig [Dominicans in Bosnia from the Settlement of the Order to the Middle of the 14th Century]". In Csurgai Horváth, József (ed.). Az első 300 év Magyarországon és Európában. A Domonkos-rend a középkorban (in Hungarian). Alba Civitas Történeti Alapítvány. pp. 251–263. ISBN 978-963-88117-7-6.
- Vékony, Gábor (1991). "Anonymus kora és korhűsége IV. [The Age and Contemporariness of Anonymus, Part IV.]". Életünk (in Hungarian). 29 (4): 355–375. ISSN 0133-4751.
- Zsoldos, Attila (2011). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301 [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301] (in Hungarian). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN 978-963-9627-38-3.