Artykuł podejmuje po raz pierwszy w historiografii zagadnienie starań duchownych o objęcie kościoła parafialnego p.w. św. Jakuba w Olsztynie w okresie do 1466 roku. W dotychczasowych pracach, czy to dotyczących samego kościoła, czy też szerzej, historii diecezji warmińskiej i jej duchowieństwa, podawano jedynie jednego plebana olsztyńskiego z badanego okresu. Przeprowadzone przez Autora tekstu badania, głównie na materiale proweniencji papieskiej pozwoliły znacznie poszerzyć listę duchownych starających się o objęcie parafii w Olsztynie w latach 20. i 30. XV w. Poza przedstawieniem wszystkich znanych średniowiecznych faktów z historii parafii oraz zrelacjonowania starań duchownych o objęcie kościoła w Olsztynie, artykuł uzupełniają szczegółowe biogramy ustalonych duchownych, którzy objęli bądź podjęli starania o objęcie parafii olsztyńskiej.
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The article takes up for the first time in historiography the issue of the attempts of the clergy to take up the parish church of St. James in Olsztyn before 1466. In existing studies either on the church itself or – more broadly – the history of the diocese of Warmia, only one parish priest from the period in question was mentioned. The re-search made by the author of the article, based mainly on the material of the papal prov-enance, has allowed to considerably broaden the list of priests attempting to take up the parish in Olsztyn in the 1420s and 1430s. Apart from presenting all known medieval facts from the history of the parish and relating the clergy’s attempts to take up the church in Olsztyn, the article includes detailed biographic entries of those priests who have been found to have taken up the parish of Olsztyn or to have tried to do so.
The figure of the Warmian bishop Paulus Legendorf has been of interest to Polish and German historians for many decades, who have devoted many studies to him. Most of these works, however, were of a reproductive nature, which resulted in the repetition of mistakes made by earlier researchers. Efforts to verify previous findings were rare, and there was no systematic search in published and archival sources. Thos article, based on broad library and archival research, presents new facts from the life of Paulus Legendorf, and also draws attention to erroneous information that has accumulated over the decades, which continued to be repeated during the presentation of the figure of Bishop Legendorf.