Původ a studium bratří Konráda a Konstantina z Vechty

• Authors: Jiří Stočes

Title variants

EN

THE ORIGIN AND STUDIES OF THE BROTHERS KONRAD AND KONSTANTIN VON VECHTA

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents the answers to the so-far unanswered questions concerning the origin of the eminent courtier of Wenceslas IV and later the archbishop of Prague, Konrad von Vechta, and his brother Konstantin. On the basis of a study of the sources, the author disproves the thesis on the two brothers being from the Bremen patrician family von Vechta, which has prevailed in the literature, and on the other hand documents that they came from the Puls family in Vechta. They left for Prague because of their university studies – Konstantin passed his baccalauréate exam at the Faculty of Arts in 1387 while Konrad was matriculated at the then independent Law University in 1390. Their later career indicates chat opportunities for social climbing were offered by a medieval university regardless of the degrees attained.

Keywords

EN

KONRAD VON VECHTA; KONSTANTIN VON VECHTA; VECHTA; BREMEN; PRAGUE; UNIVERSITY; PRAGUE LAW UNIVERSITY; MOBILITY; SOCIAL MOBILITY

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 91-112

Contributors

author

Jiří Stočes

• Pedagogická fakulta Západočeské univerzity v Plzni, Czech Republic