Johann Rode von Wale
| Johann Rode von Wale Iohannes Rufus de Wale (La) |
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| Prince-Archbishop of Bremen | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Bremen |
| Province | Bremen |
| Elected | 30 January 1497 papally confirmed 28 April |
| Predecessor | Henry II |
| Successor | Christopher the Spendthrift |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 6 June 1497 by Bertold of Landsberg, Henry III of Minden |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Johann Rode von Wale |
| Born | 1445 Bremen |
| Died | 4 December 1511 Vörde |
| Buried | Bremen Cathedral |
| Nationality | Holy Roman Empire |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Residence | Vörde Castle |
| Parents | Heinrich Rode von Wale Anna Vagedes (Vaget/Vagts) |
| Occupation | metropolitan |
| Previous post | cathedral provost |
| Alma mater | and Erfurt |
Johann Rode von Wale (c. 1445 – 4 December 1511, Vörde; distinguished from his namesake uncle as Johann Rode the Younger; also Johann Roden Bok, or Rhode, Latinised: Iohannes Rufus de Wale) was a Catholic cleric, a Doctor of Canon and Civil Law, a chronicler, a long-serving government official (1468–1497) and as John III (German: Johannes III.) Prince-archbishop of Bremen between 1497 and 1511.
Rode was born about 1445 in Bremen. He was a member of a patrician family of Bremen, recorded for holding political offices of the city since the 2nd half of the 13th century. The family was said to be also related by marriage with ministerialis and noble families in the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. Rode's father Heinrich Rode (died 1496) was city councillor in Bremen between 1484 and 1496, his mother Anna was a daughter of Bremen's burgomaster Borchard Vagedes (Vaget/Vagts; died 1512, burgomaster since 1482) and his wife Bartke Brede.
His namesake and paternal uncle Johann Rode the Elder (died 1477), like two further paternal uncles, Lüder Rode (Germanised: Lothar; died 1503) and Theodericus Rufus (Germanised: Dietrich Rode; died 1484, provost of the college in Ramelsloh), were also clerics, as cathedral provost, cathedral cantor (Domkantor), and ordinary cathedral canon (Domherr), respectively, with seats and votes in Bremen's cathedral chapter. Rode's brother Heinrich, son-in-law of Bremen's burgomaster Hermann von Groepelingen (officiating 1425–1435), served as city councillor of Bremen and their sister Margarethe (died 1513) was married to Bremen's burgomaster Heinrich Stenow, officiating between 1486 and 1506.
Being of successful bourgeois background the landed nobility in the prince-archbishopric considered Rode as a representative of urban commerce and economic interests and belittled him as a man of minor, shoemakers' descent. His family was most likely also invested in urban real estate, Buden (literally boothes), rented out to the non-propertied classes.
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