Goswin Klingenberg

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Seal of Goswin Klingenberg (around 1408)

Goswin Klingenberg (* in Lübeck ; † March 16, 1416 in Lüneburg ) was Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

Life

Goswin Klingenberg was the son of Lübeck councilor Wedekin Klingenberg . He was elected to the Lübeck Council in 1382, where he was appointed mayor in 1397. In the same year he traveled to Riga as the city's envoy to settle the dispute between the cathedral chapter and the knights of the order . In 1405 he mediated between the Lübeck bishop Johannes Hundebeke and the Lübeck cathedral chapter. In wills of Lübeck citizens he is listed several times as guardian until 1407 . When the unrest broke out in Lübeck in 1408, he initially stayed in Lübeck, only after the failure of the negotiations between the Old Council and the New Council in Mölln did he go into exile in Lüneburg. He participated in the lawsuit of the old council before the Reichshofgericht . Thereupon his Lübeck assets were confiscated by the New Council.

During his time in Lübeck he lived at Breiten Straße 6. He was a member of the circle society and died in exile in Lüneburg. He was married to Margaretha, a daughter of Gerhard Witte, the widow of his cousin Johann Klingenberg († 1371) . The mayor of Lübeck, Johann Klingenberg, was Goswin's son.

literature

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 Klingenberg, Goswin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1416
Place of death Luneburg