Friedrich von Pfuel

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Friedrich von Pfuel (* 1460 ; † 1527 ), hereditary lord on Jahnsfelde , Altranft , Vichel , Heiligensee , Gielsdorf , Wilkendorf and Eggersdorf, pawnbroker at Jerichow Castle , Groß Schönfeld , Hohenfelde (Mecklenburg), and Bärenwalde , was a knight and governor of Brandenburg .

Despite the peace treaty of 1495 , Pfuel led a ten-year feud with the Mecklenburg dukes , which heeded the legal ideas of the time, because of an undone engagement .

Life

Friedrich von Pfuel came from the old to Jahnsfelde in the Brandenburg Switzerland -based noble family of Pfuel . He was the son of Bertram von Pfuel (* around 1405-1410; † 1482) and Anna von Barfus .

1492 took Pfuel with Duke Henry I at the Siege of Braunschweig part. He was the governor of Sandau as well as in the vassal service and escort of the dukes of Mecklenburg.

The Pfuel feud

In Star Gardener country a line of family Pfuel with was fiefs resident. When this line died out, the dukes confiscated these estates as defunct fiefdoms, but soon lent them back to the cousins ​​of the last Stargardian Pfuel. Friedrich von Pfuel had become engaged to Anna von Bibow , who, however, had previously made a marriage promise against Heinrich von Oldenburg . Before Pfuel could marry her, she became a lady-in-waiting at the Mecklenburg court, where, despite Pfuel's protest, she married Heinrich von Oldenburg in 1497. Fiercely bitter about this, Pfuel announced a feud to the dukes and their lands, which was to last for ten years, and in which he caused a great deal of mischief through murder, fire and plunder, and which was continued almost without interruption.

Since Pfuel did not appear to the repeated summons of a vassal court, his fiefs were withdrawn in 1499 and he was declared a state ban. Negotiations finally started. As a first condition, Pfuel demanded the repeal of the imperial ban. When this condition was not met, he lured Joachim and Ludolf von Maltzan , the two sons of the knight Bernd von Maltzan , from the city of Leipzig in the autumn of 1505 , and took them hostage.

Bernd von Maltzan was the most respected and first privy councilor of the Duke of Mecklenburg and had negotiated with Pfuel on this matter too. Pfuel took the two boys to the "mountains", where it is not said, probably to a friend's castle in Saxon Switzerland , and put them prisoner there. Before the two children were captured, Pfuel had demanded 3,000 gold florins for the renunciation of the feud, the bride and the fiefdoms . In June 1507 he asked for another 1,500 gold gulden for the sons of Maltzan, as they would have cost him a lot of money.

Negotiations took place during the summer of 1507; the boys were brought down from the mountains to be handed over to the peace agreement. But it was not until August 24, 1507, through the mediation of the Brandenburg Elector Joachim I Nestor , that the contract was concluded in Berlin, according to which Friedrich von Pfuel received the lifting of the eight, an amnesty and 4,500 gold guilders, against which he and his cousins ​​all claims to the Mecklenburg feudal estates, renounced. The two children had been imprisoned by Pfuel for almost two years.

The tombstone of Friedrich von Pfuel is in the village church in Gielsdorf , originally it was in the old Berlin Cathedral .

family

Friedrich von Pfuel married Barbara von Waldenfels († 1549), granddaughter of the statesman Georg von Waldenfels . The couple had a son:

  • Bertram von Pfuel (1510 / 15–1574), heir to Jahnsfelde, Vichel, Gielsdorf, Wilkendorf and Eggersdorf ⚭ Ursula von Hacke (red line). They were the great-great-grandparents of Christian Friedrich von Pfuel .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Pfuel, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfuhl, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brandenburg governor
DATE OF BIRTH 1460
DATE OF DEATH 1527