Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 1561, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; Graduated 1/2 of 1561 after 3 years of study.
• Life Event: Between 1566 and 1567, Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Substitute Lutheran Pastor
• Ordained: 1566, Germany; right Day Simonis and Judae by Stössel
• Life Event: Between 1567 and 1606, Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Paster with branches in Grosheirath and Rossach
• Life Event: 1569, Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Visitation: completely rude, unpaid, has declined Vict. not signed, she refuses
• Life Event: 1578, Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Visitation: admonished to study more diligently
• Life Event: 1583, Scherneck, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Visitation: Has 6 children who can probably pray

Notes:

“Vict.” is probably the Victimatio, the Latin word for the statement made by the victim against the offender.  It’s an archaic and very rare word.  It doesn’t show up in Google searches and it’s not in the Oxford Classical Latin Dictionary.  But, since the Reformers liked to use a lot of Latin words, it’s the only possible word that would fit the abbreviation in the context of the actions of both the Rev. Johannes Rosenfeld and his wife, Dorothea Schade.

The key clue is in the Visitation of 1569.  It stated, in your words, that Johannes was “completely rude”.  His congregation probably found him so unpleasant that they wouldn’t pay him a decent salary.  ( In those days, it was cheaper to drive out the priests and take over their churches in the name of the Reformation, especially when the sovereign was Protestant.  In 1569, the sovereign of Scherneck was the Duke of Saxony, Johann Wilhelm, the uncle of our Johann Casimir.  The Duchy of Saxe-Coburg, including Scherneck, would not be created until 1572. )  Dorothea probably felt the same way about him, too, and complained to the Visitationers, who would have written down all her words into a Victimatio ( a combo of the Latin word for “victim” and the Latin suffix, —tio, used to denote “statement” ).  But she probably wanted only sympathetic ears, not a public airing of dirty laundry, so she would have been so mortified by the sight of her Victimatio that she would have refused to sign it.

Family/Spouse: Schade, Dorothea. Dorothea was born in UNKNOWN in Germany; died in DECEASED in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Between 1606 and 1612, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany
• Ordained: 27 Sep 1612, Coburg, Bayern, Germany
• Life Event: 28 Sep 1612, Römhild, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Deacon
• Life Event: 1620, Bedheim, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Substitute Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: 1625, Bedheim, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Lutheran Pastor

Johannes married Faber, Barbara on 16 Feb 1613 in Bedheim, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Barbara (daughter of Faber, Maximilian and Seitz, Susanna) was born in Oct 1592 in Bedheim, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died in DECEASED in Bedheim, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of Lutheran Pastor Johann Rosenfeld and his wife Barbara Faber. He sired a long line of Pastors and wives of Pastors.

Family/Spouse: Seifert, Kilian. Kilian (son of Seifert, Conrad and Hopf, Dorothea) was born on 18 Mar 1599 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 7 Nov 1676 in Bedheim, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried on 12 Nov 1676 in Bedheim, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Translated by Chip Kalb
Barbara’s death record:
The German transcription :

Fr. Barbara   Pfarrwittwe zü Rappertshaüßen ist
Mohringin,    den 30 . Nobris [ 1703 ] Christehrlich begraben worden.

The English translation :

Mrs Barbara   Pastor’s widow of Rappershausen [ in the Duchy of Saxe-Römhild ] was
Mohring,         on 30 Nov[ember 1703]. given a Christian and honorable burial.

Christehrlich = Christlich und ehrlich = “Christian and honorable” — yes, Christ is the German word for “Christian”.  Christus is the German title for Jesus of Nazareth.  It’s because of the Latin influence and it’s very strong in both the German language and culture, especially with one half of Germany in the Catholic Church.  We may say “Pope Francis” but the Germans do NOT call him “Papst Franz”.  They call him “Papst Franziskus” — Pope Franciscus in English.  But, unlike their Dutch brethren, they don’t use the Latin names for all the Popes.  For them, the Popes are Franziskus, Benedikt XVI ( not Benediktus ), Johannes Paul II ( not Johannes Paulus ), Johannes Paul I, Paul VI ( not Paulus ), Johannes XVIII, Pius XII . . . but St Peter is still Hl. Petrus.

Family/Spouse: Möring, Johann Anton Thomæ. Johann (son of Thomæ, Christoph and Hartmann, Catharina) was born before 9 Apr 1631 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 27 Jan 1690 in Rappershausen, Rhon-Grabfeld, Bayern, Germany; was buried after 27 Jan 1690 in Rappershausen, Rhon-Grabfeld, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]