Arnold Fitz Thedmar

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Arnold Fitz Thedmar (* 1202 ) was a Hanseatic wholesale merchant based in London , who at times represented all merchants from the Reich ; he was also the author of a chronicle. His parents came from Cologne and Bremen .

Life

Around 1260 Thedmar was the elder of the entire German merchant community in London and thus in England. This can be proven for 1251 and 1259/60, but he probably held this office much earlier. In this function as "Alderman mercatorum Allemanie in Angliam venencium" he represented the merchants coming from the empire towards the city of London and towards the royal family.

His father, the Bremen merchant Thedmar, came to London around 1180. He had bought property in the Dowgate district , very close to the German Guildhall . There he married Juliana, Arnold's mother, who came from a Cologne family. She was the daughter of Arnold der Grevingge and his wife Oda, who had come to England on a pilgrimage to Thomas Becket's grave and stayed in London. Their daughter Juliana, the mother of Arnold Fitz Thedmar, was born in London.

Her son Arnold acquired additional land and various properties, including a shipyard area, a warehouse and several shops. His middleman in Bremen was his servant Hermann, who arranged the extensive trade contacts. In London he was also supported by a man from Bremen, who was also named Arnold and whose father was called Rosekin. The two Arnolds were involved in an arbitration in a dispute between London and Lübeck merchants in 1251, together with five people from Cologne and other traders . Arnold Rosekin must therefore also have held a prominent position.

Until shortly before his death, Thedmar wrote a chronicle entitled Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum . It covers the period from 1189 to 1274.

plant

  • Thomas Stapleton (Ed.): Arnold fitzThedmar. De Antiquibus Legibus Liber. Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum. London 1846.

literature

  • Natalie Fryde: Arnold Fitz Thedmar and the emergence of the great German Hanseatic League. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter. Volume 107, 1989, pp. 27-42.

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Remarks

  1. ^ According to Natalie Fryde: A medieval German major entrepreneur: Terricus Teutonicus de Colonia in England, 1217–1247. Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, p. 124, he was born in 1201.
  2. ↑ Natalie Fryde: A medieval German major entrepreneur: Terricus Teutonicus de Colonia in England, 1217-1247. Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, p. 142.
personal data
SURNAME Thedmar, Arnold Fitz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wholesaler, elderly man in London
DATE OF BIRTH 1201 or 1202
DATE OF DEATH 13th Century