Goblinus (or Goblin) was the

bishop of Transylvania The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia (); ) is a Latin Church archdiocese in Transylvania, Romania. History It was established as a bishopric, the diocese of Transylvania also called Erdély (in Hungarian), or Karlsburg alias Siebenbür ...

in the

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from 1376 until his death in 1386. A native of Nagycsűr (), Goblinus was a

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. His father was Adalbert. In 1349, he was the parish priest of Sellenberk (). Later he served as the parish of Kereszténysziget (). In a

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dated 5 May 1376,

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appointed him bishop of Transylvania while praising his learning and spirituality.. As bishop, Goblinus served as an advisor to King

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. The charter of November 1376 renewing the statutes of the nineteen guilds of Nagyszeben (), Segesvár (), Szászsebes () and Szászváros () was drafted by the bishop and the royal bailiff, Johann von Scharfeneck. Goblinus engineered the signing of a peace convention between the Saxons of Nagyszeben and the local

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at Kereszténysziget on 9 January 1383. In 1383, Queen

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bestowed on Goblinus, his three brothers and three sisters a crown estate comprising the Saxon village of Omlás () and four Vlach villages in the mountains. In 1384, Goblinus founded a Pauline monastery in the village of Tótfalud (). In his will, Goblinus left a

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to the cathedral rectory. His tombstone survives, but is heavily damaged.Veronika Csikos, "Styling the Dead: Tradition(s) of Making the Pontifical Tombstone in Angevin Hungary," ''Ikon'' 4 (2011): 303–312.

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