Bertram Cremon

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Cremon's grave slab in Lübeck Cathedral

Bertram v. Cremon († January 5, 1377 in Lübeck ) was canon in Hamburg and from 1350 bishop of Lübeck.

Life

The fourteenth bishop of Lübeck came from the Mecklenburg noble family Cremon ( Cramon ). Before his appointment as bishop around 1329 he was the parish priest of Damshagen and then the parish priest of Hamburg and pastor in Boizenburg . Bertram Cremon had to deal with Steno Berg about Eutin , who claimed that his ancestors had only given the place as a deposit. An arbitration was reached, with Count Heinrich II of Holstein and the two dukes Albrecht and Johann von Mecklenburg acting as arbitrators. However, they rejected the statements as incorrect and King Charles IV issued a letter of protection to the bishop and the cathedral chapter on January 5, 1354. Cremon made special efforts to increase the number of episcopal estates. He bought the Hobbersdorf farm, the villages of Horsdorf and Ratekau , the Ruppersdorf estate along with the lake and mill, and Neuhof from the proceeds from the village of Pronstorf that was sold . Further red sand next to the mill, Torchow, Offendorf and Timmdorf. He sold Holm along with an annual pension of 15 marks to the council in Lütjenburg . He gave valuable equipment to Lübeck Cathedral . The Katharinenkloster was repaired and expanded in its time (1353). On October 22, 1375, he received Emperor Charles IV in Lübeck.

His secret seal from the years 1351-1371 shows him kneeling with hands raised in prayer under a depiction of Saint Catherine of Alexandria , enthroned under a canopy. It clearly resumes the veneration of the Catherine of this family, which was already expressed in the family coat of arms in the von Cramon noble family by means of the Katharinenrad .

His grave slab in Lübeck Cathedral measures 308 × 198 cm. The brass inlays are lavishly engraved and his image alone consists of ten individual brass plates assembled to form a figure. Evangelists are depicted in the four corner medallions. The grave slab was formerly located in the inner choir and was attached to the northwest wall of the transept in 1886.

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 24 ( digitized version )
  • Wilhelm Mantels :  Bertram . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 550.
  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 242–243 Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops up to the end of the sixteenth century - presented biographically, literarily, historically and in terms of church statistics . 1. Volume, Leipzig 1858, pp. 562-589 .
  • Dagmar Jestrzen: Catherine of Alexandria: the crusaders and their saints. Lukas Verlag 2010, therein pp. 72–74: A confession in a like-minded environment: the Mecklenburg knights of Cramon and the counts of Schwerin.
  • Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD. Geb. Minden 1854, p. 56–57 .
  • Hermann Grote : Family Tables, Leipzig 1877
  • Ursula Wolkewitz: The engraved brass grave plates of the 13th and 14th centuries in the area of ​​the North German Hanseatic League - their origin and their meaning: Erinnern - Mahnen - Belehren , Kassel University Press, Kassel 2015, p. 70 ff. ( Digital copy )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidelinde Knabe: Chronicle of the community Damshagen, Stellhagen, Reppenhagen, Welzin 1230 - 2002. Damshagen 2002.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Mantels :  Bertram . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 550.
  3. ↑ Jestrzen (2010), p. 72 ff.
  4. ↑ BuK Vol. III, p. 242 ff.


predecessor Office successor
Johannes Mul Bishop of Lübeck
1350–1377 		Nicholas I of Meissen
personal data
SURNAME Bertram Cremon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertram from Cremon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon in Hamburg and Bishop in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1377
Place of death Lübeck