Bertram Vorrade
Bertram Vorrade (* around 1300; † after 1377 probably in Lübeck ) was Lübeck's mayor .
Bertram Vorrade is first proven through land acquisition: from 1323 to 1331 he owned 7½ hooves near Strömkendorf , in 1333 he bought the Stockelsdorf estate . Vorrade lived in the house at Schildstraße 12 , later called Brömserhof . Also in 1333 he became head of the Holy Spirit Hospital Foundation in Lübeck. From 1358 he represented the city at many Hanseatic days in Lübeck and outside the city. As early as 1358 he gave the Hamburg Cathedral Chapter a pension from his Stockelsdorf estate and 11½ acres of land near Krempe . In 1360 he negotiated a peace treaty with Duke Erich I of Saxony-Lauenburg . From 1363 he was mayor of the city. In 1370 he became head of the St. John's Monastery . In 1372 he was with a Lübeck delegation of envoys with Count Adolf von Holstein . His considerable estate was estimated at 7,800 Marks in Lübeck.
His son Tidemann Vorrade also became councilor in Lübeck.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 341.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Vorrade, Bertram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1300 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1377 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Lübeck |