Gunzelin VI. (Schwerin)

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Gunzelin VI. von Schwerin († 1327 ) was a count of Schwerin .

Life

origin

Gunzelin VI. was the eldest son of Count Nikolaus I of Schwerin († 1323), Count of Wittenburg, Boizenburg and Crivitz with Silesen and his first wife Elisabeth von Holstein († 1327).

Career

Gunzelin VI. held the position of cantor at the Schwerin cathedral chapter on October 31, 1305 , but had returned to secular status no later than May 1, 1312, probably before February 17, 1307, when he signed a contract with his father with his relatives Heinrich III. († 1344) and Gunzelin V. († after 1307).

His seal impression is preserved under documents from the years 1312, 1316 and several times between November 11, 1322 and November 23, 1326.

After the death of his father on March 30, 1323 he was named Governing Count of Wittenburg .

Gunzelin presumably died between May 3 and August 7, 1327, since after that only his brother without him and his eldest son Otto I appeared in his place.

The latter inherited the father as Count of Wittenburg and Schwerin, while Nikolaus (III.) , The next born afterwards, became Count of Tecklenburg and continued the male line . However, on December 7, 1358, he and his son sold the Schwerin counties to the Dukes of Mecklenburg , who were now also called Counts of Schwerin.

family

Gunzelin VI. married Richardis von Tecklenburg († around 1327), daughter Otto IV. von Tecklenburg-Ibbenbüren († 1307) and Beatrix von Rietberg . She was heir to the county of Tecklenburg . Several children were born from the marriage.

  1. Otto I († 1357), Count of Wittenburg 1328, Count of Schwerin 1344–1356 ∞ Princess Mechthild von Werle
  2. Nikolaus (III.) († after 1367), 1356–1358 Count of Tecklenburg ∞ I Countess Helene von Oldenburg , ∞ II Countess NN von Diepholz
  3. Mechthild († after 1378) ∞ Count Henning von Gützkow
  4. Beate († before 1340) ∞ Duke Albrecht IV of Saxony-Lauenburg
  5. Rixe († before 1386) ∞ Duke Waldemar V of Schleswig

According to Hoffmann, there is more to be said than against the fact that Elisabeth , named in a document in 1378 as a widowed Countess von Gützkow, gave the children of Gunzelin VI. is attributable. In retrospect , Schmidt makes it clear that he is also inclined to this view.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : On the genealogy of the Counts of Schwerin and on the sale of the County of Schwerin. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 15, 1850, pp. 33–35
  2. ↑ a b Family Günzel VI. at the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  3. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch (MUB) No. 3145
  4. ↑ a b c Meklenburgische Jahrbücher , Volume 33–35, pp. 112–116
  5. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: On the genealogy of the Counts of Schwerin and on the sale of the County of Schwerin. In: Year books of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Volume 15 (1850), pp. 23–42
  6. ↑ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: Document on the purchase of the County of Schwerin on December 7, 1358, in memory of the re-acquisition of the county by the Dukes of Meklenburg five hundred years ago. In: Year books of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 24 (1859), pp. 197-211
  7. ^ Johannes Hoffmann: Studies on the history of the counts of Gützkow. Dissertation, University of Greifswald 1946, Chapter 7, The descent of Johann V, Elisabeth and Mechtild.
  8. ^ Roderich Schmidt :  Gützkow, Count of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 290 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Gunzelin VI.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gunzel VI.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1327