Heinrich van der Linden

Heinrich van der Linden (* 14th century ; † September 3, 1391 in Aachen ) was a lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Live and act

Van der Linden was councilor of the city of Aachen from 1364 and was admitted to the jury in 1370 , where he was appointed judge a year later. In 1376 he was a member of the Aachen delegation, which prepared the later coronation of Wenceslas as king with Emperor Charles IV in Bacharach . Finally, van der Linden was elected Mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen in 1382, 1385 and from 1387 to 1391 .

As a stale mayor, van der Linden, together with Reinhard von Moirke, the elder, and the incumbent mayors Gerhard Lewe, the elder and Johann von Pont, headed the city troops in 1383 , which were linked to the allied troops of the city of Cologne , Archbishop of Cologne Friedrich III. von Saar Werden and Duke Wilhelm II of Jülich and Geldern belonged to the besiegers of Dyck Castle as a result of a resolution of the Maas-Rhine Peaceful Alliance. This accused Gerhard von Dyck of robber barons and forced him to destroy the stronghold at that time after the successful capture of his castle. Van der Linden did not take part in the siege of Reifferscheid Castle , which took place two years later , in order to better govern and protect Aachen on site.

Heinrich van der Linden was married to an unknown lady with whom he had two children. Firstly, the daughter Catharina, who married the aldermen Werner Bertolf, with whom she had two sons, Johann and Heinrich Bertolf , who were later also elected mayor. On the other hand, the son Gerard, owner of the Raede / Roide estate, later Rahe Castle , which he sold to Mayor Wilhelm von der Hagen on October 22nd, 1423 .

Literature and Sources

• Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The lay judges of the Royal See of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 50 , 1928, ISSN  0065-0137 , pp. 125/126 , No. 125 ( freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com and freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com ).
• Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The Aachen mayors from 1251 to 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 55, 1933/34 , pp. 49 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Friedrich Macco: Aachener Wappen und Genealogien ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Volume 1. Aachen, 1909, p. 262.