Bernhard Kopman

Bernhard Kopman (* before 1275, † after 1314) was a councilor of the Hanseatic city of Rostock in the 14th century.

Bernhard Kopman comes from a very wealthy and respected Rostock patrician family. Bernhard Kopman was first mentioned in a document on July 28, 1301, when he was named as a witness in a document drawn up in Warnemünde with which the Danish King Erich VI. Menved took over the protection of the rulership of Rostock and subsequently appropriated it. The latter led in 1308 to an alliance between the Wendish cities of Wismar , Stralsund and Greifswald with the city of Rostock. The councilor (and presumably also the mayor ) Bernhard Kopman acquired the Mecklenburg village of Sanitz as a fief on April 3, 1310, despite the conflicting interests of his city . After the Rostock alliance of defiance of the year 1310, he received the confirmation of this fiefdom on February 13, 1311 at his request from Prince Heinrich II of Mecklenburg . After the Rostock tournament on June 12, 1311, at which Rostock incurred the wrath of Erich Menved because the city gates of Rostock remained closed to him, he traveled with Heinrich von Gothland as the city of Rostock's envoy to Erich Menved in order to reach an understanding . The embassy, ​​however, was unsuccessful. During the Rostock riots of 1312-14, the anger of the people was directed against him and he was charged with treason. He escaped execution by escaping together with his brother Arnold Kopman . After Rostock was taken again on January 12, 1314, both were reinstated as councilors of the city with the other members of the old council of Heinrich II. The Lübische law with the self-completion right of the council was confirmed for Rostock by Heinrich II.

literature

• Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : About the Rostock patriciate. In: Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. - Vol. 11 (1846), pp. 169–205 ( digitized version )
• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Kopman, Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 679.
• Erich Hoffmann: King Erik Menved and Mecklenburg. In: Tillmann Schmidt, and Helge Wieden (Ed.): Mecklenburg and his neighbors. Rostock 1997, pp. 43-68. (Publications of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg: Series B, Writings on Mecklenburg History, Culture and Regional Studies)
• Werner Knoch: Wismar, Rostock and Heinrich II. Von Mecklenburg 1310/4 according to Ernst von Kirchberg's rhyming chronicle (1378). In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 110, 1992, pp. 43–56.

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