Dietrich von Cleen
Dietrich von Cleen (also Clee , Klee , Kleen ; * around 1455; † 1531) was a knight of the Teutonic Order , 1489–1515 Landkomtur of the Ballei Hessen and 1515–1526 German Master .
Life
Knight of the Order and Land Commander
He came from the lower noble family von Cleen, who lived in the Wetterau, and entered the Teutonic Order in 1477. In 1489 he was appointed Landkomtur of the Ballei Hessen in Marburg . In this position he was an influential member of the Hessian state estates . In 1504 he raised together with Count Philipp II. Of Waldeck , who later became Landgrave Philipp I of the baptism . After the death of Landgrave Wilhelm II in 1509, Cleen was elected to the nine-member Regency Council at a Landtag on a spit , with which the Estates prevented the Landgrave widow Anna von Mecklenburg from reigning until 1514 . Soon, however, he found himself, like other members of the Regency Council, in opposition to the overly arbitrary acting and also elected by the estates Landhofmeister Ludwig I of Boyneburg zu Lengsfeld and then supported Anna von Mecklenburg.
German master
On April 22, 1515 Cleen was elected German master at the chapter in Frankfurt ; his inauguration at Horneck Castle followed on September 5, 1515. His turbulent term of office saw the beginning of the Reformation in 1517, the secularization of the Teutonic Order and its conversion into the hereditary Duchy of Prussia by Grand Master Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach in April 1525, and the peasant wars . His official residence, Horneck Castle near Gundelsheim am Neckar , was taken by a bunch of peasants without a fight on April 23, 1525 after the defenders had left the castle and Cleen had to flee to the Count Palatine Ludwig V in Heidelberg . A second group of farmers, the so-called Odenwälder Haufen, set the castle on fire on May 5th, probably at the instigation of Götz von Berlichingen . The residential and farm buildings were completely destroyed. The German master then moved his headquarters to Mergentheim , which then became a permanent solution.
Resignation and death
When Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach resigned from the office of grand master, differences of opinion arose within the order as to whether the German master or the landmaster in Livonia , Wolter von Plettenberg , should take over the leadership of the order. Cleen, now over 70 years old, resigned from the office of German master at the chapter of the Order on December 18, 1526 in Mergentheim to make room for the younger Walther von Cronberg . He himself retired to the Kommende Weißenburg , where he died in 1531.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the 14th century the family was the owner of the village Dorn-Assenheim , which still has the three- leaf clover of the Cleen as a coat of arms, as a fiefdom of the diocese of Worms and the imperial abbey of Fulda and then belonged to the heirs of Reifenberg Castle . ( Photos of beautiful old coats of arms: Marburg, Teutonic Order Coming )
- ↑ http://www.webisphere.de/geschichte/histhoh2.html
literature
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden |
German Master of the Teutonic Order 1515–1526 |
Walther von Cronberg |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cleen, Dietrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kleen, Dietrich von; Clee, Dietrich von; Klee, Dietrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Knight of the Order, Land Commander and German Master of the Teutonic Order |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1455 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1531 |
| Place of death | Wissembourg |