Godeke Engelstede

Godeke Engelstede († after 1535) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

The merchant Godeke Engelstede was a citizen of Lübeck. In the files he is mentioned in 1529 as head of the choir of the Marienkirche .

He must have been Protestant since 1533 he financed along with John of Achelen and Jacob Krabb the pressure of the first full of Johannes Bugenhagen in the Low German language transmitted King James Lubeck. In April 1530 he was elected to the citizens' committee of the 64s .

1531 he belonged to the once for Lübeck Mayor appointed Gottschalck fuse to the first councilman who do not by the conventional self-completion of the Council, but from the committee by lot in the Council arrived. As the city's envoy, he traveled with the councilors Gotthard von Hoeveln and Nikolaus Bardewik , the secretary Lambert Becker and the committee citizen Jürgen Wullenwever to the Danish King Friedrich I at the court of Copenhagen in 1532 , to hear complaints from Lübeck and the Wendish Hanseatic cities against the Danish hindrance of maritime traffic with Holland, again in 1533 alone with Lambert Becker with an invoice for the aid provided by Lübeck to the Danish king and at the end of 1534 as the companion of Mayor Jürgen Wullenwever. At the beginning of 1535 Engelstede (presumably he) describes in a letter to Duke Albrecht VII of Mecklenburg the reasons for the defeat in the Battle of Helsingborg on January 13, 1535 from the Dominican monastery there . He represented the city in July 1535 at the Hanseatic Day in Lüneburg , at which Lübeck's policy in the count's feud was disapproved, and from there traveled to Oldesloe and Reinfeld (Holstein) for consultations with the councilors of King Christian III. from Denmark. Immediately after the Hanseatic Congress in Lübeck in August 1535, he resigned from the council . His further fate is unknown.

He lived in the house at Johannisstrasse 72 in Lübeck .

literature

Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 628

Individual evidence

↑ Files relating to a process before the Reich Chamber of Commerce in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
↑ Whether he made with the Tartu coming Godeke Engelstede , father of the council secretary and councilor Johann Engelstede , can not be proved, is identical.
↑ Archives of Lübeck 07.1-2 / 01 - St. Mary (Sacra A 1), 71
↑ Low German Bible Lübeck 1533 ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Archive Lübeck 01.1-03.07 - ASA externa, Danica 69; 72
↑ Several letters from the losers to Duke Albrecht from these days are preserved in the holdings of the Schwerin State Main Archive ; see. Diplomatarium OP Dacie , Vol. IV (1500+)

personal data
SURNAME	Engelstede, Godeke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Engelstede, Gottschalk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1535

[1] Files relating to a process before the Reich Chamber of Commerce in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

[2] Whether he made with the Tartu coming Godeke Engelstede , father of the council secretary and councilor Johann Engelstede , can not be proved, is identical.

[3] Archives of Lübeck 07.1-2 / 01 - St. Mary (Sacra A 1), 71

[4] Low German Bible Lübeck 1533 ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[5] Archive Lübeck 01.1-03.07 - ASA externa, Danica 69; 72

[6] Several letters from the losers to Duke Albrecht from these days are preserved in the holdings of the Schwerin State Main Archive ; see. Diplomatarium OP Dacie , Vol. IV (1500+)