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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Archbishops and bishops of Lund, Bishops of Schleswig, Danish Roman Catholic bishops, Nicolas Steno, Absalon, Jens Grand, Ulrik of Denmark, Valdemar of Denmark, List of the bishops of Schleswig, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, K. G. Hammar, Hans Tausen, Eskil of Lund, Nicholas I, Bishop of Schleswig, Hans Svane, Friedrich Munter, Stygge Krumpen, Jakob Erlandsen, Anders Sunesen, Erik Pontoppidan, List of bishops of Lund, Jacob Peter Mynster, Antje Jackelen, Thomas Hansen Kingo, Adaldag, Jorgen Sadolin, Peter Kierkegaard, Jesper Brochmand, Jons Gerekesson, Jens Andersen Beldenak, Canutus Hahn, Hans Adolph Brorson, Peder Winstrup, Edvard Magnus Rodhe, Henrik Reuterdahl, Mathias Steuchius, Anders Nygren, Henric Benzelius, Czeslaw Kozon, Christina Odenberg, Henry of Lund, Egino, Aage Jepsen Sparre, Peter Erasmus Muller, Heinrich Ernst Grosmann, Lise-Lotte Rebel, Per-Olov Ahren, Asser Thorkilsson. Excerpt: Dr. Jens Grand, the Firebug (Low German: Fursate, Swedish: Fursat) (about 1260 - May 29, 1327 in Avignon) was a Danish archbishop of Lund (1289-1302), titular Archbishop of Riga and Terra Mariana (1304-1310), and Prince-Archbishop of Bremen (as John I 1310-1327), known as the central figure of the second ecclesiastical struggle in Denmark in the late 13th century. He was an outstanding jurist of canon law. Grand was the son of Torbern Hvide, an officer at the Danish royal court, and of Caecilie Skjalmsdatter, a sister of Peder Bang, Bishop of Roskilde. Bang and Caecilie were also members of the Hvide clan, which came into conflict with the Danish throne through Stig Andersen Hvide's regicide of King Eric V Klipping in 1286. Grand studied at the University of Paris and received a degree as a doctor of canon law. About 1280 he gained a prebend as canon of the Roskilde Cathedral and in 1283 he adva.
