Albrecht of Pecatel

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Coat of arms v. Pecatel

Albrecht von Pecatel (* unknown; † after 1395 ), "the elder", belonged to the Mecklenburg noble family of the von Pecatel family .

During the Danish-Mecklenburg War of Succession (around 1376-1395) Albrecht helped to keep the city of Stockholm occupied. In 1394, with the help of the Vitalien Brothers, he conquered the island of Gotland . Until the invasion of Erich , Duke of Mecklenburg, in 1395, Albrecht and his Danish adversary Sven Sture neutralized each other.

literature

  • Matthias Puhle : The vitality brothers. Klaus Störtebeker and the pirates of the Hanseatic era. 2nd edition, Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1994 ISBN 3-593-34525-0
  • Friedrich Crull : The coats of arms of the genders of the team that existed in today's Meklenburg boundaries until 1360. In: Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 52 (1887), pp 34-182 (81) ( Digitalisat ( Memento of 5 May 2012 at the Internet Archive ))

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