Gottschalk from Stiten

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Gottschalk von Stiten (* 1530 in Lübeck ; † February 11, 1588 there ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Gottschalk von Stiten was the son of Lübeck's mayor Anton von Stiten and son-in-law of councilor Gotthard IV von Höveln . In 1545 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg . He was elected to the Lübeck Council in 1567. In 1568 he was the city's envoy in Copenhagen to negotiate the sound tariff . In 1580 he was one of the new founders of the patrician circle society in Lübeck. Together with the councilor Johann Lüdinghusen and the council syndicus Calixtus Schein , he was commissioned in 1583 to develop a revised version of Lübsch law . This work dragged on until 1586.

Gottschalk von Stiten lived in the house at Mengstrasse 26 in Lübeck. He was the landlord of Krummesse and held the village of Kühsen as a fief of the Loccum monastery . This fiefdom was withdrawn from him for failure to comply with the duties associated with the fiefdom.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment of Gotschalcus a Stiten