Gottschalk Warendorp

Seal of Gottschalk von Warendorp (around 1346)

Gottschalk Warendorp (* before 1295 in Lübeck ; † 1365 there ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Gottschalk Warendorp was the son of the mayor of Lübeck, Bruno Warendorp . He became councilor of the city in 1343. In 1344 he was together with the councilor Johann Constantin as Lübeck's ambassador to King Magnus II of Sweden. In 1356 he became head of the Marienkirche in Lübeck , in whose north aisle he had already donated a burial chapel in 1336, today's Köhler chapel . From 1357 onwards he carried out all traditional legal transactions together with his son Bruno.

Gottschalk Warendorp was married to a daughter of the Lübschen citizen Goswin von Klingenberg and lived in Mengstrasse 4 , which he had bought in 1320. His son was the mayor of Lübeck, Bruno von Warendorp .

literature

Rafael Ehrhardt: Family and Memoria in the City. A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages. Dissertation, Göttingen 2001. with a prosopography of the council families von Alen, Darsow, Geverdes, Segeberg and Warendorf.
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 356
Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906.

Individual evidence

↑ The BuK statement that it was donated by Johann Geismar, councilor in Stockholm, refers to an altar, not to this chapel.

personal data
SURNAME	Warendorp, Gottschalk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1295
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	1365
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] The BuK statement that it was donated by Johann Geismar, councilor in Stockholm, refers to an altar, not to this chapel.