Albert Doneldey

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Albert Doneldey (* before 1310 , † after 1377 ) was a Bremen councilor and mayor .

Life

Doneldey belonged, as usual for life, to one of the council thirds in the Bremen council , namely the so-called incumbent council third, which elected mayors and councilors. The other two thirds of the Council were Wittheit , which is considered the constitutional closure of the Council, and Meheit ; the latter was the community of citizens, the universitas civitatis . She may have had the right to elect the mayor before the franchise was changed.

A group of around 30 families ruled the city by the second third of the 14th century at the latest. In 1330 they enforced the conditions for election to the council (council ability) on the one hand free and conjugal birth, on the other hand city property worth at least 32 marks and other obligations. As a result of these provisions, craftsmen and the less wealthy were excluded from the council. At the same time, the sense of humor was increased. Thus 38 of the 114 councilors came from each third of the council. During the time when Doneldey was councilor, the composition of the council was changed to the extent that its number was reduced to 50 in 1348, and in 1354 again to 36, as before 1330.

Doneldey's membership in the council is attested from November 29, 1331. As mayor, he is attested from March 22, 1365. The last reference to him comes from March 16, 1377. So he stayed in the council the entire time and survived the drastic reduction in membership. During the Hoyaer feud he stayed in Bremen; otherwise he did not emerge politically.

As a result of the plague of 1350 and the Hoya feud, as a result of which prisoners were released, tensions arose within the city. This also contributed to the fact that the election of bishops was controversial. 16 to 18 craftsmen who belonged to the Meenheit protested in September 1365 against the high expenditures. Equipped with ships' flags - which is why the event was later called the banner run - they penetrated the houses of several councilors and the house of Mayor Albert Doneldey and insulted them as "traitors" and "sons of whores". The beds were also punctured and some family members were mistreated. The wooden Roland went up in flames. In return, the city gates were closed, some of the rebels were sentenced to death and immediately executed in the market square. Their families were exiled, but the vast majority of them escaped. As a result of this uprising, every new citizen was sworn in on the council.

In 1366 four councilors had to leave the council. They contacted the Archbishop of Bremen . With the help of allies within the city, his soldiers were able to penetrate the city on May 29th. Some of the opposing councilors fled the city for their part. They sought out the Count of Oldenburg , who intervened in the conflict. A new council with a hundred members was appointed and some of the opponents were imprisoned. On June 24th, a Hanseatic day banned the “traitors” who had handed the city over to its own city lord, and on June 27th, servants of the Count of Oldenburg took the archbishop's garrison by surprise.

In 1367 Albert Doneldey sold a plot of land near St. Paul to the citizen Wilken Wigert, between Meyenstrate and Unser Lieben Frauen .

On December 16, 1374, he and his sons Arnold and Gerhard, the vicar of the St. Willehadi altarpiece in the cathedral , Johann Hagedorn, undertook to pay half a mark annually from their property in Böttcherstrasse .

Remarks

  1. ↑ For example Burckhard Scheper: About council power and community in north-west German Hanseatic cities of the Middle Ages , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 49–50 (1977) 87–108, here: p. 96.
  2. ^ The chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony. Bremen , Schünemann 1968, p. 155.
  3. ^ Herbert Schwarzwälder : "Bannerlauf" and "Verrat" in Bremen 1365-1366 , in: Bremisches Jahrbuch 53 (1975) 43-90.
  4. ↑ Wilfried Ehbrecht: Consensus and Conflict , Böhlau 2001, p. 223.
  5. ↑ Bremer Urkundenbuch , No. 305, p. 270.
  6. ↑ Testified from 1347, d. 1398. He must have been born in 1343 or later. In 1378 he was councilor and builder of St. Martini ( The Chronicles of the Lower Saxony Cities: Bremen , Schünemann 1968, p. 167).
  7. ↑ Bremer Urkundenbuch , No. 466, p. 426.
personal data
SURNAME Doneldey, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor and Mayor in Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH before 1310
DATE OF DEATH after 1377