Bruno Hardevust

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Bruno Hardevust (* around 1200 in Cologne; † March 21, 1278 in Cologne) was a Cologne patrician and merchant .

family

Bruno Hardevust was the son of the marriage of Hildegerus (Hildeger) Hardevust (1177-1250) and his wife Elisabeth. Bruno married Sophia von der Erenpforte in 1239. The family is proven as a Cologne patrician family from the 12th century.

Life

Bruno Hardevust worked as a merchant who also traded in England around 1224.

In 1258, together with his wife, his brother (or nephew) Godefrid and his wife and three other partners, he acquired half of all the city's meat banks and gademas (market stalls) for 600 marks and rented them out. In 1264 he received the "Grut" (the raft right). In total he owned 4 of the 34 Rhine mills, one of which he donated to the Mechtern monastery. The founder was also buried there. Thus, in 1276, he proved to be the member with the most extensive property. The Archbishop of Cologne , Engelbert II von Falkenburg, pledged 1/3 of the customs income in Kaiserswerth to him in 1277 . He was the owner of eight houses, including the Vetscholder farm on Friesenwall and a larger settlement in Mühlengasse. He appears repeatedly as a business partner and financier of the city of Cologne, from 1259 also as a lay judge. In 1274 he was feudal man of the bishop of Liège, Heinrich III. of funds .

In 1277 he financed the reconstruction of the Mechtern monastery, into which 13 Cistercian women and one abbess from the Benden monastery moved on April 9, 1277 . Bruno Hardevust is said to have been knighted by the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on a trip to the Holy Land in 1277 . He also appears as Albert the Great's executor .

death

When Count Wilhelm IV fell in the famous attempt to take the city of Aachen by surprise on the night of March 16-17, 1278, Archbishop Siegfried von Westerburg of Cologne tried to take advantage of the count's fate and to advance into the Jülich area. The Cologne army succeeded in conquering almost all castles and permanent places in the County of Jülich. He besieged the city and took it on March 21, 1278. He had the count's castle destroyed. The interest register of the Cologne Abbey of Groß St. Martin testifies that the distinguished and influential Bruno Hardevust fell at this meeting near Jülich, and the memorial book of this abbey names March 21, 1278 as the date of his death.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of the Aachen History Association, Volume 27 , Aachen History Association 1905, p. 257.
  2. ^ Ancestors of Bruno Hardevust , accessed on January 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ Dieter Herion, When Witches Still Flew Over Cologne , 2008, p. 107 f.
  4. ↑ Horst Kranz, Die Kölner Rheinmühlen: Investigations into the mill shrine, the owners and the technology of the ship mills , 1991, p. 209.
  5. ↑ Ulrike Countess Schwerin von Krosigk: Entry Bruno Hardevust , NDB, viewed on January 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ Dieter Herion, When Witches Still Flew Over Cologne , 2008, p. 108.
  7. ^ Jutta Prieur: The Cologne Dominican convent St. Gertrud am Neumarkt , Dme-Verlag 1983, p. 64.
  8. ^ Journal of the Aachen History Association, Volume 27 , Aachen History Association 1905, p. 256.
  9. ↑ a b University of Bonn, Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland, Rheinisches Archiv , Edition 114, 1982, p. 105.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hardevust, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cologne patrician and merchant
DATE OF BIRTH around 1200
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 1273 or 1277 or March 21, 1278
Place of death Cologne