Godeke Pleskow

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Godeke Pleskow (* approx. 1371 in Lübeck ; † 1451 ibid) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Godeke Pleskow came from the Pleskow merchant family who had migrated back to Lübeck from Visby . His father Godeke of the same name was a citizen of Lübeck and the son of Lübeck's mayor Jakob Pleskow .

He was already Trinity 1429 member of the patrician circle society and 1443 its creator. In 1433 he was elected to the Lübeck council. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian . He died at the age of 80 in 1451, like his relative, councilor Jordan Pleskow , of the aftermath of the plague in Lübeck.

literature

  • Sonja Dünnebeil: The Lübeck Circle Society. Forms of self-portrayal of an urban upper class (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 27) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1996. ISBN 3-7950-0465-9
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 518
  • Jürgen Wiegandt: The Plescows - A contribution to the emigration of Wisby merchant families to Lubeck in the 13th and 14th centuries: (Sources and representations on Hanseatic history) 1988

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
personal data
SURNAME Pleskow, Godeke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1371
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1451
Place of death Lübeck