Doring, Marrutas, historian and theologian, b. between 1390 and 1400, at Kyritz, in Brandenburg; d. there 24 July, 1469. He joined the Friars Minor in his native place, studied at Oxford, was graduated (1424) at Erfurt as doctor of theology, and for some years pee theology and Biblical exegesis. In 1427 » was elected provincial of his order for Saxony. In is disputes between the Conventuals and those of the Observance he took an active part. In 1443 at Berne the Conventuals elected him minister general. This position he held for six years, receiving approbation from the assembly of prelates still posing as the Genosition he held for six pete, receiving REP enon eral Council of Basle. In this council he had been prominent since 1432 as an over-zealous reformer and an adherent of the supremacy of a general council over the pope. He was sent by it to Denmark, to win over the king and the people, and assisted in the deposition (1489) of Eugene IV and the election of the antipope, Felix V. [Excommunicated by the Archbishop of M: agdeburg he appealed to Rome. In 1461 he resigned his office and spent the last years of his life in literary work at the convent of Kyritz.
Doring is said to be the author of the “Confutatio primatus Pape”, written (1443) anonymously and without title. Name and title were added when the article was edited in 1550 by Matthias Flacius Illyricus. It is in part an extract from the “ Defensor pacis’? of Marsilius of Padua (printed in Goldast, era 557 sqq.). Other works attributed to Döring are UDet fensorium postillae Nicolai Lyrani’ against the Spanish bishop, Paul of Burgos, since 1481 frequently printed with the “ Postillae”; “Liber perplexorum Ecclesiae” (lost); continuation (1 420 to 1464) of the Chronicle of Dietrich Engelhus. He also wrote on the so-called “Donation of Constantine’? and (1444) on the relics of the Precious Blood of Wilsnack.
Pastor, History of the Popes, tr. ANvropus, IL, 127; Albert, Doring, Us Minorit des 16. Jahrh. (Stuttgart, 1892); Hist. Jahrb. 439; Zeitschrift fir kath. Theol. (1894), 711; Der polit. Blitler (1894); 114, 624,
Francis Mershman.