TRUXILLO, tru-hîl'o (TRUJILLO), ORDER OF:

An order of knights under the Cistercian rule, founded in the thirteenth century, and taking its name from the town of Truxillo (130 m. s.w. of Madrid). The times were not favorable to the maintenance of so many separate orders as were then in existence, and after a brief struggle, the order of Truxillo was united with the orders of Alcantara and Calatrava.

TRYGOPHORUS, trai"gef'o-rus, JOHANNES:

German Reformer; b. at Fritzlar (105 m. e. of Cologne) in 1497; d. at Wildungen (8 m. w. of Fritzlar) June 3, 1542. Born of pious parents named Hefenträger (from which the name he assumed was Grecized), he was early destined for clerical life, and two of his sisters were Benedictine nuns. At Erfurt he became bachelor in philosophy in 1517, was ordained priest in 1521, taking the position of confessor to the Augustinian nuns of his native town. The news of Luther's movement early reached the town, and Trygophorus accepted the new Gospel, which he preached, and married a nun, with the result that he had to leave the town. Meantime the Reformation had begun to work in Waldeck, either through literary connections or because of influences from Hesse and Westphalia. The youthful but far-sighted and energetic Count Philip IV., who ruled in the southern portion of the county, returned from the diet at Worms a confirmed adherent of Luther. Philip III., who controlled the northern part, seems to have been led to Lutheranism by his second wife, Anne of Cleves. Conditions were favorable to a complete introduction of the Reformation when the right man appeared. At this juncture Trygophorus was called by Philip IV. to the little city of Waldeck, and his operations were soon successful. In 1531 he was

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to Wildungen, the residence of Philip IV., and there began a work of real significance in establishing the church of the Reformation in Waldeck. Tae was the leader and initiator of the various steps, introducing catechetical instruction and producing an antiphonary for the church service.

Trygophorus was a man of marked genius and practical bent, was recognized in the region as an authority in religious matters second only to Luther and Melanchthon, and did no little service by his gifts for liturgies. He was a man of great earnest ness and strong will, resolute in his fidelity to strict Lutheranism and in opposition to Roman Catholic or sectarian tendencies, so that the Waldeck church possessed always the character of a strictly Lu theran body.

(Victor Schultze.)

Bibliography: V. Schultze, yValdeek%sche ReJormatimeego- echichte, Leipsic, 1903, of. Z%G, 1907, pp. 60 sqq.