Goblinus

{{Short description|Transylvanian Catholic bishop (died 1386)}}

Goblinus (or Goblin) was the bishop of Transylvania in the Kingdom of Hungary from 1376 until his death in 1386.

A native of Nagycsűr ({{lang|ro|Șura Mare|italics=no}}), Goblinus was a Transylvanian Saxon. His father was Adalbert. In 1349, he was the parish priest of Sellenberk ({{lang|ro|Șelimbăr|italics=no}}). Later he served as the parish of Kereszténysziget ({{lang|ro|Cristian|italics=no}}). In a papal bull dated 5 May 1376, Pope Gregory XI appointed him bishop of Transylvania while praising his learning and spirituality.{{Cite ADB|9|301|302|Goblinus, Bischof von Siebenbürgen|Georg Daniel Teutsch|ADB:Goblinus}}.

As bishop, Goblinus served as an advisor to King Louis the Great. The charter of November 1376 renewing the statutes of the nineteen guilds of Nagyszeben ({{lang|ro|Sibiu|italics=no}}), Segesvár ({{lang|ro|Sighișoara|italics=no}}), Szászsebes ({{lang|ro|Sebeș|italics=no}}) and Szászváros ({{lang|ro|Orăștie|italics=no}}) was drafted by the bishop and the royal bailiff, Johann von Scharfeneck.Renáta Skorka, "The Buda Decision: Lessons from the Quarrel between the Sibiu Tanners and Shoemakers," Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Socio-Umane Sibiu 25 (2018): 33–45.John Foisel, Saxons Through Seventeen Centuries: A History of the Transylvanian Saxons (Central Alliance of Transylvanian Saxons of the United States, 1965), p. 63.Daniela Marcu-Istrate, Church Archaeology in Transylvania (ca. 950 to ca. 1450) (Brill, 2022), p. 268. Goblinus engineered the signing of a peace convention between the Saxons of Nagyszeben and the local Vlachs at Kereszténysziget on 9 January 1383.Ela Cosma, "Enacted Jus Valachicum in South Transylvania (14th–18th Centuries)," Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai - Historia 67, 1 (2022): 3–19. In 1383, Queen Mary bestowed on Goblinus, his three brothers and three sisters a crown estate comprising the Saxon village of Omlás ({{lang|ro|Amnaș|italics=no}}) and four Vlach villages in the mountains. In 1384, Goblinus founded a Pauline monastery in the village of Tótfalud ({{lang|ro|Tăuți|italics=no}}).Corina Hopârtean, "Written Sources Regarding Pauline Monasteries in Medieval Transylvania," Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov – Special Issue, Series VII, 10 (59), 1 (2017): 17–22.

In his will, Goblinus left a breviary 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. {{doi|10.1484/j.ikon.5.100705}}