Gerd von Dettenhusen

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Gerd von Dettenhusen (*?; † after 1435 ), in the sources also Gheerde van Dettenhuzen , was Bremen councilor from 1395 to 1421 and Bremen mayor from 1414 to 1420 (or 1421).

Life

origin

Gerd von Dettenhusen came from a family through his father Bernhard that played a prominent role in Bremen as early as the 14th century. His great-grandfather, who also was called Bernhard was 1306 Consul , so councilman in the city. His son Bernhard was a senator in 1316 , his grandson of the same name, i.e. Gerd's father Bernhard, was a senator in 1330. In 1376 at the latest he was referred to as a borghermester . He was mayor of the Bremen council as early as 1375 . In 1378 he appeared as a proconsul .

On the economic basis and legal relationships

Like other councilors, Gerd owned woods around the city. In addition to Gerd von Dettenhusen, the forest owners who contributed wood to the construction of Bremen's town hall from 1405 onwards included the forest owners Bernd and Detward Prindeney, Friedrich Wigger , who was mayor himself from 1410 to 1417, Arnd Boller, Johann Vasmer (1422 to 1430 mayor) and the then mayor Johann Hemeling (1405-10). The wood was transported on flat-bottomed oak ships, weighed on the Weser and then driven by car to the Liebenfrauenkirchhof.

From a military point of view, Gerd von Dettenhusen stepped up through an expedition against the Vitalienbrüder , which he carried out together with councilor Jakob Olde . But such military or commercial use was not without its risks, especially since the boundaries were ambiguous. When in 1402 a ship on the way to England , loaded with wheat , got into distress and landed off the Scottish coast, it was captured by the English "de Novo Castello" ( Newcastle ). Several merchants suffered heavy losses, including Gerd von Dettenhusen. Another ship that Dettenhusen owned together with eight merchants from Bremen was also hijacked - with nine "famuli" killed - and kidnapped to London. In addition, the captain was thrown into the sea after 14 days of imprisonment.

Councilor (from 1395), Mayor (1414-20 / 21)

From 1414 to 1421 Gerd von Dettenhusen was mayor after he had already become a councilor in 1395. In 1418 he went together with Hinrik Sparenberch as envoy to the Hanseatic League in Lübeck . As so often before, the people of Bremen got into an argument with the hamburgers , this time because of the seating arrangement. While the Hamburg ambassadors - Lübeck was in the chair - were to sit on the right hand next to the Lübeckers, the Bremeners were to sit on the left hand, but behind the Cologne residents . Since the Bremen did not want to recognize an arbitration award, they left. In 1419 Gerd von Dettenhusen was one of the negotiators who negotiated a contract between the Count of Oldenburg and the Hanseatic League .

After his tenure, he got into a dispute with the Willehadi chapter about the tax exemption of a property in Walle . In doing so, Gerd connected with the Pauls monastery east of the city. The parties to the dispute called on the farmers in Walle as arbitrators . Your decision was recorded in a notarial instrument.

Gerd's daughter Gesche married in 1414 the very wealthy Hinrich von der Hude , who lived in Bremen and was a wholesale merchant. In 1413 his first wife Margareta died. Gesche and Hinrich had two daughters: Margarete (Gretke) (* around 1430; † 1518) and Reimede (* around 1435; † after 1459?). In 1409 Hinrich owned a house near St. Martini's Church . Except during the upheaval from 1427 to 1433, he sat on the council from 1410 to 1459.

Inheritance

In 1443, Gerd's son-in-law Hinrich von der Hude compiled a list of his property claims in Ritterhude in connection with a court case that had lasted since 1413.There were also forests in Stotel that had already belonged to his great-grandfather, Ritter Friedrich von der Hude , and his own Grandfather Lüder von der Hude .

Since Hinrich died without a son, Geverd von der Hude took the opportunity to claim his property as the next living male relative ( sword stomach ). However, before his death on June 9, 1459, Hinrich bequeathed his property to his wife, the daughter of Gerds von Dettenhusen, and his two daughters. The widow should keep the property together. Gesche later accused her son-in-law Lüder Scharhar of wanting to cheat her out of her share, half of the total income from the inheritance. On April 25, 1461, the councilors Diderich Scharhar , Herrmann Gröpeling and Daniel Brand , plus Frederick von Varle , formed the court sitting over the case . Gesche prevailed. She died around 1492.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Diedrich Rudolf Ehmck , Hermann Albert Schumacher : Das Rathaus zu Bremen , in: Bremisches Jahrbuch 2 (1866), pp. 259–443, here: p. 401 (“Gerhard von Dettenhusen ... incidentally still lived in 1435”) .
  2. ↑ Bremisches Jahrbuch 1–2 (1864), p. 401.
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Gildemeister : Additions to the knowledge of patriotic law , vol. 2, Bremen 1808, p. 129f., Note 4.
  4. ↑ Bremisches Urkundenbuch, Bremen 1877, No. 488, beginning of January 1376.
  5. ^ Bremisches Urkundenbuch, Bremen 1877, No. 530, April 25, 1378.
  6. ^ Diedrich Rudolf Ehmck , Hermann Albert Schumacher : Das Rathaus zu Bremen , in: Bremisches Jahrbuch 2 (1866), pp. 259–443, here: pp. 315f., 324, 343, 400f.
  7. ^ Publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen, Volumes 6–8, Göttingen 1973, p. 220.
  8. ^ Karl Kunze: England and the Hanseatic League. Files 1275 to 1412 , Severus, Hamburg 2013, n. 334: Bremen's complaint, certified by the Bremen Council , July 31, 1406. In addition, Lower Saxony Yearbook for Regional History , Volume 78, 2006, p. 44.
  9. ↑ Erich Lübcke: The Bremen council from 1225 to 1433 and the councilors with their family relationships , E. Lübcke, 1935, n. 519; Werner Hennig: The councilors of Bremen in the Middle Ages. A contribution to Hanseatic social history , Diss. Masch. Göttingen 1957, p. 134.
  10. ↑ Thomas Hill: The city and its market. Bremen's regional and external relations in the Middle Ages (12th to 15th centuries) , Steiner, Wiesbaden 2004, p. 68. So also Volker Henn : The Hanseatic day trips between claim and reality , Porta Alba, Trier 2001, p. 43.
  11. ↑ This process is already described by Johann Philipp Cassel : Collection of unprinted documents that clarify the history of the Free Imperial City of Bremen in earlier times , Georg Ludewig Förster, Bremen 1768, n. 19, pp. 82–84, here: p. 82 ( digitized version ) .
  12. ^ Diedrich Rudolf Ehmck, Wilhelm von Bippen (Ed.): Bremisches Urkundenbuch , Vol. 6, No. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Dettenhusen, Gerd von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1435
Place of death Bremen