Henrik Kalteisen

Kalteisen was a counselor for Pope Eugene IV on the matters of theology and law and was Master of the Sacred Palace from 1439 to 1452.

[note 1] On 27 February 1452, the Pope settled the matter with the appointment of Henrik Kalteisen[6] to keep his own man in the Church of Norway.

On his way to Trondheim for the consecration, the Archbishop and his companions were attacked on 25 April 1453 by the Swededish-Norwegian, Ørjan Karlson,[note 2] and his troops.

He made a number of decisions in ecclesiastical law but he found the time to write a little history of the diocese of the Faroe Islands.

Kalteisen invoked the authority of the Pope, while Marcellus took for the decrees of the Council of Basel and the privileges of the Norwegian Church for his own claim.

In the end, the matter was referred to Pope Nicholas V. The King brought to the Riksråd of Norway the letter, in which he exaggerated the problems with the establishment of Kalteisen as the archbishop.

In his letter to King Alfonso V of Aragon and Naples, Christian I wrote that he was thinking of converting to the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Cathedral Chapter itself wrote to the Pope that Kalteisen had become so unpopular in Trondheim that he had to be rescued from physical abuse by the King's officers.

He was put under enormous pressure to resign not only his office but also to propose to the Pope that he should return to Norway as the Papal legate and negotiate on his behalf the compensation for Marcellus.

In 1456 King Christian complained to the new Pope, Calixtus III that the Archbishop was a weak and sickly foreigner who would not speak the language and that he had refused the royal request to resign.

[13] It ceased after 7 June 1458, when the Pope decided to accept the request for the resignation and appointed Olav Trondsson as the new Archbishop of Nidaros.

Kalteisen was appointed in June in the same year as the Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia[14] and received a pension of 200 Rhenish florins, to be paid every six months.

[15] In 1463 Kalteisen returned to the now destroyed Dominican monastery[note 3] in Koblenz, where he died in the following year, on 2 October 1464.