| Sumario: | In this contribution several manuscripts are analyzed that transmit texts written by Geert Grote (1340-1384), the founding father of the Devotio Moderna movement. The selected witnesses have Crutched Friars' convents as their provenance. The analysis results in the conclusion that two individual Friars played a decisive role in the early and qualitatively outstanding reception of Grote's literary output among the Crutched Friars: First, Conrad Scheych from Grünberg († 1466), librarian of the convent in Cologne and in 1418-1419 a student of the Brethren in Deventer, and secondly Helmicus Amoris from Zutphen († 1441), from 1415 onwards prior-general of the Order and a maternal half-brother of Gerard Zerbolt from Zutphen (1367-1398), the talented but untimely deceased first generation inhabitant of the mother house of the Brethren of the Common Life in Deventer.
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