Gert van der Schuren

Gert van der Schuren (also Gert van der Schüren ; * allegedly 1411 in Xanten ; † 1496 ) worked as a secretary at the court of the Duke of Kleve and was the author of a Klevian chronicle.

Life

Gert van der Schuren came from Xanten and was a son of Johan van der Schuren († 1439), who had held the office of Cologne bailiff under Archbishop Friedrich von Saar Werden, and Drude van Bemel († 1449 ), who came from an important family of lay judges / 50). Gert had several siblings: Johan, Rutger, who became canon at Xanten's Viktorstift , Wilhem, Bela and Mechtelt. Gert was married to a Lysbeth van Eger († 1455/57) in his first marriage and to a Getrudis in his second marriage. The first marriage had at least three sons, Stephan, Lambert and Johann, who all embarked on a spiritual career. He lived with Lysbeth (Elisabeth) in Wesel for at least two years , where two of their sons were born. He lived with Getrudis on the Dornick house near Büderich, which was later destroyed by the Rhine .

In 1440 Gert van der Schuren acted as a notary. However, his enrollment at Cologne University is only documented for 1441. Probably in 1450 he took up his duties as secretary in the firm Cleves under Duke John I of. Gert seems to have been held in high esteem by the Duke of Kleve, because he was called in early on for special missions and often accompanied him on trips. In 1471, on behalf of his employer, Gert van der Schuren began to write a Klevian chronicle in the Lower Franconian language, for which he extensively evaluated the administrative records of the Klever chancellery available to him. His presentation breaks off suddenly with the reports on the year 1450. Gert died in 1496.

Works

• Gert's van der Schüren Chronicle of Cleve and Mark , edited and annotated by Ludwig Tross, Hamm 1824 (online) .
• Vocabularius qui intitulatur Teuthonista: German-Latin, Latin-German. Arnold ter Hoernen, Cologne, 31. V. 1477 ( digitized version ).
• De origine Carthusiensium. Kreuzherrenkonvent, Düsseldorf 1506 ( digitized version ).
• Clevic Chronicle: based on the original manuscript of Gert van der Schuren, together with the prehistory and additions by Turck, a genealogy of the Clevisches Haus ... Boss, Cleve 1884. Digitized edition of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf .

literature

• Heinz Eickmans : Gerard van der Schueren: Teuthonista. Lexicographical and historical-word-geographical studies , Böhlau, Cologne a. Vienna 1986, (= Low German Studies , 33), ISBN 3-412-04685-X , ( online edition ; PDF; 3.6 MB).
• Klaus Flink: The Klevische Hof and its chroniclers. Administrative records as a source and means of territorial historiography . Stadtarchiv, Kleve 1994, ISBN 3-922412-15-7 , pp. 15-20.
• Robert Scholten (Ed.): Clevische Chronik after the original manuscript of Gert van der Schuren with prehistory and additions from Turck, a genealogy of the Clevisches Haus and three writing tablets . Boss Verlag, Kleve 1884, ( digitized version ).
• Woldemar Harleß :  Schuren, Gert van der . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 80-82.

Web links

• Schüren, Gert van der in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"