Abdena

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The Abdena were an East Frisian chief family . In the years shortly after 1400, on behalf of the bishops of Münster , who asserted old rights here, they took possession of the city of Emden and its surrounding area and developed it into their center of power.

history

The first representative known by name is Wiard Droste tho Emetha , who built a castle in Emden around 1300. The bishops of Munster gave him the supervision of the mint and customs office. His grandson Hisko Abdena knew how to reduce the influence of Münster more and more. He became provost in 1390 and chief of Emden in 1400. During his rule, Emden's trade relations, especially with Münster and Westphalia, were considerably expanded. He also succeeded in enforcing the city's lucrative stacking rights for all passing ships. At times he supported - like the other East Frisian chiefs - the Vitalienbrüder and granted them accommodation and a trading center in his area. Hisko thus laid the foundation stone for Emden to develop into an urban settlement.

This development called the Hanseatic League on the scene. In order to master the Vitalienbrüder, eleven armed cogs with 950 men were sent to the North Sea. Hisko succeeded in switching sides and on May 6, 1400 handed over the city and the castle of Emden to the Hanseatic League, which, in gratitude, left him the chieftainship. In 1413 Keno II succeeded tom Brok in driving Hisko out of Emden. As a result, he fled to Groningen (now the Netherlands ). Only the fall of the last tom Brok , Ocko II , made it possible for the aging Hisko to return to his hometown, where he died shortly afterwards.

The last chief of the Abdena family in Emden was Hisko's son Imel, who once again teamed up with the Vitalien brothers. Imel was then captured during a Hanseatic punitive expedition and died in captivity in Hamburg in 1455.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Kappelhoff: The development of sovereign sovereign rights in East Friesland and their expression in coinage. In: Emder Jahrbuch , Volume 46, 1966, pp. 5–110, here: pp. 9, 30 81.
  2. ^ Heinrich Schmidt: Political history of Ostfriesland (= Deichacht Krummhörn (Hrsg.): Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike. Contributions to the cultural and economic history of the East Frisian coastal country . Volume V). Leer 1975, p. 78.
  3. ↑ Hanswilhelm Haefs: Ostfriesland: Notes on history through reports on the political development of the Frisians. Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8334-2384-0 , p. 40.
  4. ↑ Matthias Puhle: Die Vitalienbrüder: Klaus Störtebeker and the pirates of the Hanseatic era. 3. Edition. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39801-3 , p. 118.
  5. ↑ André Koller: agonality and cooperation. Leadership groups in the north-west of the empire 1250–1550 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1587-7 , p. 331.
  6. ^ Tileman Dothias Wiarda : Ostfriesische Geschichte . Volume 2: From 1441 to 1540 . Aurich 1792, p. 386; archive.org