Heinrich von Tunna
Heinrich von Tunna , called Heinrich Bart (also Herman Bart ; † June 2, 1209 ), was the third Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1208 to 1209.
He was a ministerial of Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia , Count Palatine of Saxony . He probably belonged to the von Thüna family .
In 1208 he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . To finance the trip, he left a piece of forest on the Ettersberg that belonged to him to the Reinhardsbrunn monastery and received 10 silver marks for it .
In Palestine he entered the Teutonic Order and was elected Grand Master that same year. The causes of its rapid rise are unclear. He died in 1209 and was buried in Acre .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Ludwig August Schultes: Directorium Diplomaticum or chronologically ordered excerpts from all documents available on the history of Upper Saxony. Hofbuchhandlung, Rudolstadt 1825, p. 452.
- ↑ Cf. Regesten of the Salza family. FABrockhaus, Leipzig 1853, p. 96 f.
- ↑ Cf. Marie-Louise Heckmann: The German Order and the "Golden Bull" of Emperor Charles IV. In: Klaus Neitmann / Wolfgang Neugebauer: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany. Volume 52. KGSaur, Munich 2007, p. 221.
literature
- Kurt Forstreuter: Heinrich Bart. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 377 ( digitized version ).
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SURNAME | Heinrich von Tunna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinrich Bart |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Grand Master of the Teutonic Order |
DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1209 |