Heinrich Blarer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heinrich Blarer
portrait from 1460 with the insignia of the order of the jug : fur, muskrat, shoulder band, gem in the background. Painted by the so-called caretaker. (Today in the Rosgarten Museum Konstanz)

Heinrich Blarer (* around 1420; † August 11, 1476 ) was a Constance merchant and patrician .

Life

Heinrich Blarer was born around 1420 as the son of Ulrich Blarer zum Pflug (approx. 1390 - after 1443) and the Afra. According to the patrician estate, he was a merchant from 1433 to 1476 at the "fish market". Around 1445 he married Anna Speiler. The marriage remained childless.

He was a member of the Order of Canisters of Aragon and possibly also of the Zur Katz Society . Together with his cousin Albrecht Blarer , he loaned the Bishopric of Konstanz 1,500 pounds of Heller.

He died on August 11, 1476 without any further descendants. In 1476 his widow Anna Speiler donated a chaplaincy in Diessenhofen and a benefice on an altar in the bishopric of Konstanz in his memory .

swell

  • Rosgarten Museum Konstanz
  • Regesta Episcoporum Constantiensium (REC) IV and V
  • Gemachtebuch Konstanz I No. 371
  • Thurgovia Sacra I, 66
  • Magdenau necrology