Egidius Bleyenheuft
Egidius Bleyenheuft , also Agidius Bleyenheuft (* 1566 in Aachen ; † May 20, 1622 ibid) was a German politician and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .
Live and act
Egidius Bleyenheuft was the son of Mathias Bleyenheuft († 1574), master builder and master builder at Wollenambacht, and his third wife Sophie Nacken. He became a member of the buck guild, in which most of the scholars had come together. He later got involved in local politics and was elected rentmaster of the city of Aachen in 1604 . A year later, in October 1605, he was briefly appointed as successor to lay judge Albrecht Schrick as Meier von Burtscheid , who as a Catholic representative was initially removed from office by the temporary Protestant majority in the city council, but was reinstated as Meier in the same year after the majority changed was.
However, this did not change the popularity of Bleyenheufts among his followers and he was elected mayor of the city of Aachen from the ranks of the guilds in 1610/11, 1617/18 and 1620/21, although the first term of office was not final secured, but only calculated.
Bleyenheuft died on May 20, 1622 as a result of an accidentally fired shot while watching a procession at the window of the Haus zum Bock, the seat of the Bock guild on the market. His first marriage was to Anna Luppold and, after her death, to Katharina von Hausen, with whom he had two children.
Egidius Bleyenheuft is still reminiscent of a coat of arms engraving on the bowl of the Aachener Karlsbrunnen on the market square, which was newly poured and inaugurated during his last term in office in 1620.
Literature and Sources
- Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachener Wappen und Genealogien , Volume 1, Aachen 1907, S. 42-43 S. 66 and S. 67 digitized
- Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The Aachen mayors from 1251 to 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 55, 1933/34 , pp. 66/67 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
Individual evidence
- ^ Inscription catalog : Aachen (city). DI 32, City of Aachen, No. 118. German Inscriptions Online , accessed on May 10, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bleyenheuft, Egidius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bleyenheuft, Aegidius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1566 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1622 |
| Place of death | Aachen |