Berlewin

Berlewin von Freiberg or von Vriberg († 1243/1244 near Rondsen (now part of Graudenz )) was a knight of the Teutonic Order .

Life

Berlewin is said to come from a Meißen ministerial family . In 1233 Berlewin was a nurse in Kulm and acted as a document witness. A few years later, in 1239, he was runner-up in Prussia . A tax-free and tax-free land lending to Ernst Dietrich von Tiesenau by Berlewin as land master is documented this year. He is also said to have taken military action against Natangen . His term of office as Order Marshal in the 1940s is somewhat unclear, the information ranges from 1240 to 1244. In any case, this period was marked by the First Prussian Uprising. In the fighting between summer 1243 and winter 1244 he fell with 400 knights in the battle of Rondsen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Maciej Dorna: Bracia zakonu krzyżackiego w Prusach w latach 1228-1309 , Poznań 2004, pp. 114–115.
2. ↑ Max Perlbach : Preussische Regesten up to the end of the thirteenth century , Königsberg 1876, pp. 39–40.
3. ^ Karl Eduard Napiersky : Index corporis historicodiplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae et Curoniae , Volume 2, Riga and Dorpat 1835, p. 348.
4. ↑ Johannes Voigt : History of Prussia from the earliest times to the fall of the rule of the Teutonic Order , Volume 3, Königsberg 1828, p. 464.
5. ↑ Johannes Voigt: Name codex of the German order officials , Königsberg 1843, p. 5.
6. ^ Marc Löwener: The establishment of administrative structures in Prussia by the Teutonic Order ; Wiesbaden 1998, p. 76, FN 108 u. P. 156, FN 76.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich von Fuchsberg	Vice Country Champion of Prussia 1239	Heinrich von Wida (Landmeister)
Werner von Merenberg	Marshal of the Teutonic Order (1240) 1242–1243 (1244)	Almerich of Würzburg