Bruno Warendorp († 1341)

Warendorp Chapel in Lübeck Cathedral

Grave slab of the Helenburg von Warendorp in Lübeck Cathedral

Bruno Warendorp (* probably 1255 ; † June 29, 1341 in Lübeck ) was a Lübeck mayor at the beginning of the 14th century.

Life

Warendorp was elected mayor of the city in 1301 and held this office for 40 years. His house was at Mengstrasse 14. He was named in 1307 as the tenant of the municipal meadows on the Trave and was the owner of the Israelsdorf estate . He gave the village of Mallentin to his son Gottschalk Warendorp in 1331 . The Lübeck Cathedral he founded in 1332 a stipend . His wife Hellenburgis († 1316), who died early, was first buried under a stone grave slab in Lübeck Cathedral. Together with his wife Hellenburgis, he was buried in the Warendorp Chapel he built on the south side of the cathedral under a preserved figure grave slab with (no longer preserved) brass inlays.

literature

Rafael Ehrhardt: Family and Memoria in the City. A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages. Dissertation, Göttingen 2001. Full text with a prosopography of the council families von Alen, Darsow, Geverdes, Segeberg and Warendorf.
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 268.
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. Published by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, p. 71 ff. (Kapelle); P. 233, 237/239 (tombstones and bronze tombstone). Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9

Individual evidence

↑ See Ehrhardt, pp. 170ff. Not to be confused with Bruno von Warendorp, who later died in 1369

↑ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 529 (LÜDO16)

^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 548 f. (LÜDO40)

personal data
SURNAME	Warendorp, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Warendorp, Bruno von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1275
DATE OF DEATH	June 29, 1341
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] See Ehrhardt, pp. 170ff. Not to be confused with Bruno von Warendorp, who later died in 1369

[2] Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 529 (LÜDO16)

[3] Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 548 f. (LÜDO40)