Christoph (Jever)

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The Jever reign around 1500

Christoph , also Christoph, Junker zu Jever or Christoffer , (* 1499 ; † June 2, 1517 in Jever ), as East Frisian chief, was briefly regent of the Jever rule .

Life

Christoph was the only legitimate son of Edo Wiemken the Younger (* around 1454; † April 19, 1511), chief of Jever. When his father died, Christoph was eleven or twelve years old. Edo had appointed Count Johann V von Oldenburg (1482–1526), ​​the brother of Christoph's mother Heilwig von Oldenburg, to be his guardian. On site, five regents from the lower nobility of the Jeverland chiefs ran the business of the authorities. The rule was on the one hand oppressed by the feudal authority claims of the Count of East Friesland Edzard I , on the other hand it was also in the Oldenburg area of ​​interest. The situation became all the more critical, the closer the Wettin-Welf prince alliance, which also included Oldenburg, was inspired by Duke Georg von Sachsen as governor of Friesland in 1513 against the outlawed Edzard I. When the so-called Saxon feud broke out in January 1514 and after East Frisian associations had invaded the country, the reaction in Jever was highly contradictory: On February 7th, Junker Christoph signed an assistance contract in Oldenburg with the princes allied against Edzard. However, two of the regents and two Jeversche officials concluded an alliance in Burmönken on February 9th with Count Edzard, represented by proxy - in the name of Christoph, but probably without his consent. Finally, on February 14, Christoph's feud letter to Edzard is dated, who during the entire Saxon feud the Junker held on to the alliance against the East Frisian Count.

Christoph died suddenly on June 2nd, 1517 without being ill. He may have been poisoned, and Edzard von Ostfriesland was suspected to be the mastermind. In any case, Edzard was the political beneficiary: in October 1517 he urged the - also still underage - sisters of Christoph to act as protectors.

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personal data
SURNAME Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christoph, Junker of Jever
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Frisian chief of Jeverland
DATE OF BIRTH 1499
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1517
Place of death Jever