Heinrich Doneldey

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Heinrich Doneldey the Younger (* around 1300 ; † after 1367 ) was a Bremen councilor and mayor . In 1358, during negotiations in Lübeck, he prepared Bremen's re-entry into the Hanseatic League . At the same time he was a cathedral builder.

Life

Doneldey is considered the first mayor of Bremen, even if this assignment is uncertain. This is due to the fact that the legal relationships within the city were unclear in the early 14th century, but in any case disputed between the emerging community and the archbishop. The Bremen council could decide a dispute, but only if both parties turned to the council; until then, the archbishop's court was responsible.

The increasing influence of the council - which a few decades later was able to make the final decision, and to which the defendant had to appear even if he did not agree - is possibly also due to the fact that the church and communal tasks were even less separated than this was already common anyway. Heinrich Doneldey is called the cathedral builder ( dominus fabrice ); In 1334 he donated a bell, the Susanneglocke . When the relics of Saints Cosmas and Damian were rediscovered in the cathedral in 1335, he had elaborate celebrations organized and Archbishop Burchard Grelle held a tournament in the cathedral courtyard, along with processions and celebrations in the archbishop's palace . In addition, twelve citizens were knighted.

By 1352 at the latest, two councilors together with Doneldey were sealed as consules in Brema .

In 1358 Doneldey went with Berent von Dettenhusen as envoy to Lübeck . Bremen was badly hit by the plague in 1350 and also had to contend with heavy defeats and costs because of the Hoya feud from 1351 to 1359. The Hanseatic League also boycotted Flanders and its goods. Bremen was not a member of the Hanseatic League , had circumvented the boycott and now had to ask Lübeck to resume. On the way to Lübeck and in Hamburg , the negotiators had to listen to serious allegations. In order to be resumed, Bremen had to support the Flanders boycott and help Hamburg fight the pirates on the Elbe . The two negotiators signed a treaty that was ratified by the Bremen council. This council described them as “nostri consulatus socios, ad hoc per nos specialiter missos” and at the same time honorable and discreet.

After an uprising against council rule in September 1365, the so-called banner run , every new citizen was sworn in to the council.

In 1358 Doneldey sold land to the vicars of St. Willehadi. In 1360 Doneldey appears together with his wife Margareta and his sister Mechtilde in a document in which the three sell land in Lankenau to a Bremen citizen for 34 marks . Doneldey also appears in two more land sales in 1367. In these cases, land was sold in Lankenau and at St. Paul in Meyenstrate.

His daughter Anna married Detward von der Hude .

Remarks

  1. ↑ This was already stated by Ferdinand Donandt: An attempt at a history of Bremen city law. With an introduction about the development and further development of the Bremen constitution up to the year 1433 , Bremen 1830, p. 288, firm ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Donandt: Attempt a History of the Bremen City Law. With an introduction to the development and development of the Bremen constitution up to 1433 , Bremen 1830, p. 161, note 240.
  3. ↑ Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 5, Bremen 1870, p. XC.
  4. ^ Wilson King: Chronicles of Three Free Cities, Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck , 1914, p. 75.
  5. ↑ Bremisches Urkundenbuch, Bremen 1877, No. 118, August 3, 1358.
  6. ↑ Bremisches Urkundenbuch , Bremen 1877, p. 134, of March 23, 1360.
  7. ↑ Bremisches Urkundenbuch , Bremen 1877, No. 305 and 318, about Johannes d. Baptist and December 21, 1367.
personal data
SURNAME Doneldey, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doneldey, Heinrich the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor and Mayor in Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH around 1300
DATE OF DEATH after 1367