Jordan von Boizenburg

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Jordan von Boizenburg (officially known from 1236 ; † before 1274 ) was a council notary .

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Jordan von Boizenburg was related to Wirad von Boizenburg and possibly his grandson. Since he had the title of Magister, he had probably completed a course of study of unknown content. Another family member was councilor Konrad von Boizenburg , who can be proven from 1283 and who may have been Jordan von Boizenburg's son.

In December 1236, von Boizenburg took part in negotiations with Adolf IV as a “reader” and as a witness as a notary . At the meeting at his castle near Hamburg, the Count granted merchants from the Mark Brandenburg region a Hamburg customs privilege. In 1252 and 1253, Countess Margaret II of Flanders, after negotiations with the Lübeck councilor Hermann Hoyer and Jordan von Boizenburg, privileged the merchants from Lübeck , Hamburg, Aachen , Cologne , Dortmund , Münster and Soest and the other merchants of the Roman Empire (several times : et aliis Romani imperii mercatoribus ). This laid the foundations for the Hansekontor in Bruges . Boizenburg was also instrumental in the negotiations on privileges that Hamburg merchants received in Sweden in 1261 .

The notary was heavily involved in the administration of the city of Hamburg and wrote several earlier official books of the Hanseatic city . In his legacy and pension book Liber resignationum , he listed property abandonments and encumbrances from 1248 onwards in the form of a continuous log. In 1267 he wrote the copy book Liber quadratus , which contained copies of city documents and whose structure was based on the class of the exhibitors. This book burned in 1842. Probably before 1270 he began to record debts, and from 1280 additional family contracts in a debt register .

In 1270 he wrote the Hamburg city charter with the Hamburg Ordeelbook . The work contained twelve sections, which the author had systematically structured. The appendix contained explanations on the law of the sea and the Middle Low German language. Von Boizenburg used the Sachsenspiegel by Eike von Repgow in some places . There are insufficient sources for assumptions that there was a previous version of this in Latin around 1220. Von Boizenburg's work was the basis for the town charter of Stade 1279 and the town charter of Bremen 1303/1308. The Ordeelbook was replaced in Hamburg by extensive changes in 1301 and 1497.

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  1. ↑ Hansisches Urkundenbuch (HUB) 1, pp. 137ff., No. 121f .; Pp. 140f., No. 428; Pp. 142–158, nos. 431–436 - Mutual favoring of Flemish merchants on the part of the city of Münster, for example HUB 1, p. 167, no. 465.
personal data
SURNAME Boizenburg, Jordan from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Council notary
DATE OF BIRTH before 1236
DATE OF DEATH before 1274