Bernhard von Dettenhusen

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Bernhard von Dettenhusen , also Bernde (* before 1330 , † after 1378 ) was a Bremen councilor and mayor of the 14th century. In 1358, during negotiations in Lübeck , he prepared Bremen's re-entry into the Hanseatic League .

Life

Bernhard came from a family that played a prominent role in Bremen as early as the 14th century. His grandfather of the same name was consul in 1306, i.e. councilor in the city. His father, also named Bernhard, was a senator in 1316 .

Bernhard Dettenhusen was a senator in 1330 and a consul in 1378.

On January 4, 1346, Dettenhusen can be found in a document among the 24 councilors (consules) who certified the statements of five sworn citizens (among them a Sanderus de Dettenhusen). On February 23, 1351, Bernardus de Dettenhusen was among the witnesses of a renewal of a privilege for the Lilienthal monastery from 1259, which freed it from guard services and other tasks.

In a document of the Bremen council of September 7, 1354, in which it was a matter of inheritance, Dettenhusen was listed as one of the "consules in Brema".

In June 1358 Dettenhusen went together with Heinrich Doneldey , who was also a member of the Wittheit and was not a member of the council, as envoy to Lübeck to negotiate with the representatives of the Hanseatic League. Bremen, badly hit by the plague in 1350 , which also had to struggle with severe defeats and costs from 1351 to 1359 because of the Hoya feud , suffered from the fact that the Hanseatic League boycotted Flanders or its goods. Bremen was excluded from the Hanseatic League , or at least the city federation threatened to do so because a Bremen trader named Tidemann Nanning had undermined the Hanseatic boycott. In addition, the Bremen Johann Hollemann had pirated the Elbe and thus angered the Hamburgers against Bremen. Therefore the city of Lübeck had to ask for resumption. On the way to Lübeck and in Hamburg , the negotiators had to listen to serious allegations. In order to be resumed, Bremen had to support the Flanders boycott and Hamburg had to help fight the pirates on the Elbe . The two negotiators signed a treaty that was ratified by the Bremen council. This council described the negotiators as "nostri consulatus socios, ad hoc per nos specialiter missos" and at the same time as "honorable" and "discreet". Dettenhusen appears in the Hanseatic trial of 1358 as Bernde van Dettenhusen .

Bremen had to agree to provide a ship with 50 armed men to secure the sound if Lübeck, Wismar , Rostock and Stralsund so wished. To secure the Elbe, it had to provide 100 armed men. The city was expressly obliged not to circumvent Hanseatic boycotts and to do everything that none of the Bremen merchants did either. The city was only allowed to make use of the privileges it had acquired outside of the Hanseatic League in England, Norway and Flanders if the Hanseatic cities were not at a disadvantage.

In 1358 ten men formed the so-called third . The actual, acting council of the city was formed by the men placed in this way by the thirds. After January 6, 1359 (post festum epyphanie domini), after a significant number of these elected councilors had fallen into captivity of the Count of Hoya , the council had to decide that men of Wittheit should replace numerous members of the council. Because of this process (causa) those who entered were referred to as "pro nunc ex causa consules in Brema". Among these 17 men was Albert Doneldey as well as Dettenhusen . In 1366 the ten imprisoned councilors had returned. However, at that time 7 councilors were still in captivity, Heinrich Doneldey was legally prevented from doing so, perhaps in negotiations. Of the 17 men in 1359, only four were from this group, 3 from the third of 1357.

In later council documents, Dettenhusen usually appears as the first witness, in 1376 at the latest he was referred to as a borghermester . He was already mayor of the seated council in 1375. In 1378 he appears as a proconsul . He last attested a document on June 28, 1378.

His son Gerd von Dettenhusen was mayor from 1414 to 1420.

Remarks

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Gildemeister : Additions to the knowledge of patriotic law , vol. 2, Bremen 1808, p. 129f., Note 4.
  2. ^ Bremen document book . No. 586, January 4, 1346.
  3. ^ Bremen document book . No. 4, February 23, 1351.
  4. ^ Bremen document book . No. 57, September 7, 1354.
  5. ↑ Thomas Hill: The city and its market: Bremen's surrounding and external relations in the Middle Ages (12th to 15th centuries) , Wiesbaden: Steiner 2004, p. 356.
  6. ↑ Bremisches Urkundenbuch, Bremen 1877, No. 118, August 3, 1358.
  7. ↑ Hanserecesse. The Recesse and other files of the Hanseatic Days, 1256–1430, Volume 1, Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Historical commission: Olms 1975, p. 143.
  8. ↑ Bremisches Urkundenbuch, Bremen 1877, No. 129, after January 6, 1359.
  9. ↑ Bremisches Urkundenbuch, Bremen 1877, No. 488, beginning of January 1376.
  10. ^ Bremisches Urkundenbuch, Bremen 1877, No. 530, April 25, 1378.
  11. ↑ Bremisches Urkundenbuch, Bremen 1877, No. 534, June 28, 1378.
personal data
SURNAME Dettenhusen, Bernhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor and Mayor in Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH before 1330
DATE OF DEATH after 1378