Berend Bomhover

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Seal of Berend Bomhover around 1511

Berend Bomhover (also Bernd Bomhouwer or Bomhower ) (* in Münster ; † 1526 ) was a councilor and naval leader of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

Bomhover came from Münster. Since 1486 he can be proven as a merchant in Lübeck. In 1489 he was a member of the Antonius Brotherhood in Lübeck. In 1501 he became a councilor.

In 1503 he accompanied the Lübeck ambassador Hermann Messmann to Sweden, where it was achieved through diplomatic channels that Queen Christine was released, who was imprisoned in Vadstena monastery after the uprising by the imperial administrator Svante Sture in 1500/1501 . A Travemünder servant who had claimed that the two messengers had been executed was expelled from the city for this false report after Bomhover and Messmann returned.

At the beginning of the Danish-Luebian War in 1509, he also commanded the Lübeck fleet together with Councilor Messmann against that of King Hans under his Admiral Jens Holgersen Ulfstand . In 1510 he was in Münster to represent the city in negotiations with the cities of Cologne's third part of the Hanseatic League . In the same year he occupied the island of Bornholm with the Lübeck fleet . The Wendish City Council in 1514 commissioned him to negotiate on behalf of the cities with the Lübeck merchants' corporation of mountain drivers . From 1519–22 he is proven as a treasurer.

In 1522, together with the councilor Hermann Plönnies, who was also from Münster, he commanded the Lübeck fleet in support of Gustav Wasa , which took Stockholm on June 21, 1523 and thus marked the end of the Swedish War of Liberation . The mayors of the defeated city, which had stood by Christian II until the end, presented Bomhover and Plönnies with the city keys as a sign of submission. This led to Gustav Wasa initially confirming Lübeck's trading privileges. The diary of this mission to Stockholm, which is extremely important for Swedish national historiography, is preserved in the archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Also Mathias Mulichs Lübeck correspondents told him in a letter from the fighting.

1524 traveled Bomhover for the coronation of the new Danish King Frederick I of Copenhagen .

He owned the house at Fischstrasse 22.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Zmyslony: The brotherhoods in Lübeck up to the Reformation . 1977; P. 43
  2. ↑ Pauli: Older penalties from the no longer existing Liber judicii . In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 1 (1860), p. 392f; P. 393
  3. ↑ Re-indexing of the holdings of the Old Senate Archives Externa Batavica and Suecica. , accessed September 27, 2013
  4. ↑ See: Gerhard Fouquet : "Hear and write about war". From the letters to the Lübeck-Nuremberg merchant Matthias Mulich (1522/23). In: History pictures: Festschrift for Michael Salewski for his 65th birthday. Stuttgart: Steiner 2003 (Historische Mitteilungen: Aufhefte: Geschichte 47) ISBN 978-3-515-08252-5 , pp. 168-187
  5. ↑ Fischstrasse 1–40 on archiv.luebeck.de (pdf, accessed December 5, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Bomhover, Berend
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bomhouver, Bernt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor and Admiral of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH 1526