Reinbold Vener (the older one), also known as Remboldus (* in Schwäbisch Gmünd, † 1408), was a church lawyer who worked in Strasbourg.
Reinbold Vener was born as a member of the distinguished and well-to-do patrician family Vener from Schwäbisch Gmünd. His father, Eberhard, was the judge of the city court.
In his first marriage, Reinbold married a Caecilia, with whom he had five children; in the second marriage, Reinbold married Margarete Spatzinger, a relative of the Strasbourg-based town-keeper Werner Spatzinger. He had begotten four sons and an illegitimate son. The best known among his children are Job and Reinbold Vener the Younger. The marriages were possible for him, as he had received only the lower orders.
Reinbold Vener studied at the University of Paris and obtained the academic degree of a Master's degree there in 1356. Subsequently he studied the rights in Bologna from 1359 onwards. He was later referred to as "in iure canonico peritus" and "utriusque iuris peritus vir". He appeared to have moved to Strasbourg before 1370, and from 1371 he held the office of official, de facto the head of the episcopal judicial authority, among the bishops Lamprecht von Brunn (1371-1374) and Friedrich von Blankenstein (1375-1393). He was also involved in the Strasbourg begining process of 1374 and possibly also in the elaboration of a comprehensive statute book for the diocesan courts (1388). Vener received 1378 canons at the Strasbourg Stifts St. Thomas and Jung-St. Peter. At the beginning of the 1390s he turned to the Roman obedience with Bishop Friedrich von Blankenstein. In 1393 he was expelled from the city for a short time, and in Speyer he became an official. He then resigned from the official office in 1394 after his return and his capture of the bishop's chair in 1394. Later he became an advocate at the spiritual court, where he was still occupied several times until 1405. In 1400, Reinbold Vener, together with Job Vener, joined the judiciary to recognize Ruprecht as a Roman-German king.
He died before 12 December 1408 and was in the church Jung-St. Peter buried in Strasbourg. Edit source text
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