Busso V. von Alvensleben

Busso V. von Alvensleben (mentioned 1393-1432) was Lord Master of the Order of St. John and Commander of Werben (Elbe) .

Coat of arms of the Lord Master of Alvensleben in the cross vault of the Johanniterkirche in Sonnenburg

Life

Busso V. von Alvensleben came from the Low German noble family Alvensleben and was the third son of Albrecht III. von Alvensleben on Calbe / Milde (mentioned 1351–1405). He entered the Order of St. John and between 1416 and 1419 was Lord Master of the Brandenburg Ballei . He held this office until around 1424/26. He then resigned, but continued to function as Commander-in-Chief to Werben (Elbe). It was last mentioned as such in 1432. Busso von Alvensleben stood out primarily through his charitable foundations: in 1424 he founded the St. Gertrauden Hospital in front of the Elbtor together with the council of Werben, in 1429 he gave the coming ten wispel annual grain lease from the village of Räbel bei Werben for the welfare of the poor.

In the cross vault of the Johanniterkirche in Sonnenburg near Küstrin (now Poland) there is still the coat of arms of the master master. It shows the Johanniterkreuz and the Alvensleben coat of arms in two fields each.

literature

Udo von Alvensleben : The Alvensleben in Kalbe 1324-1945 , edited by Reimar von Alvensleben , Falkenberg August 2010.
Justus Christoph Dithmar : Lord Master of the Knightly Order of St. John… Franckfurth an der Oder 1737, p. 46–47
Lutz Partenheimer : The Johanniterkomturei advertise in the Altmark between 1160 and 1542 . Lukas Verlag Berlin 2005, p. 19.
Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld : History of the Brandenburg Ballei or the Lordship of the Sonnenburg of the Knightly Order of St. Johannis from the Hospital in Jerusalem . Reprint of the edition from 1859, Osnabrück 1993, pp. 54–56.
Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück : Historical news of the Alvensleben family and their goods . Volume I, Berlin 1819, pp. 390-393

Web links

familie-von-alvensleben.de

predecessor	Office	successor
Reimar von Güntersberg	Master of the Balley Brandenburg of the Order of St. John 1419–1426	Balthasar von Schlieben

personal data
SURNAME	Alvensleben, Busso V. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lord Master of the Order of St. John and Commander of Werben (Elbe)
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1393
DATE OF DEATH	after 1432