Henning von Rentelen

Henning von Rentelen (* around 1360 in Lübeck ; † October 6, 1406 in Paris ) was a mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Rentelen, whose father of the same name was born in Riga around 1335 and came to Lübeck from there, married Elisabeth Nienborch (* around 1365 in Lübeck; † after 1410 there), the daughter of Bertold Nienborch , around 1385 .

Even before his admission to the council as city envoy in Dorpat in 1389, he negotiated with the emissaries of the cities of Livonia . Under the councilor and later mayor Jordan Pleskow , he was in command of the occupation troops in Stockholm in 1395 and in 1398 was a member of the delegation that negotiated with Queen Margaret I of Denmark in Copenhagen about the release of King Albrecht .

In 1399 he was in command of the Lübeck warships operating off the coasts of East Friesland against the Vitalienbrüder . Also in 1400 he fought together with the Lübeck councilor Johann Crispin on the Lübeck ships in the German Bight .

In 1401 he was again a member of the negotiating delegation, which this time tried with Margaret I in Lund to conclude an alliance treaty. He represented the city from 1400 to 1405 also at Hanseatic days . In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

He lived in a house acquired in 1388 at Königstrasse 39. He donated the Katharinen altar to the Maria Magdalenenkirche (castle church) at the top of the south side of the new choir and the choir window above it . A separate chapel is not mentioned. In front of the altar, the retable of which contained five statues of saints, was the family tomb, where his wife was already buried, and the monks undertook in 1420 to celebrate a mass at this altar for the salvation of the deceased family members forever. The window was taken into custody when the castle church was demolished in 1818 and later used in the Marienkirche. Up to the 18th century there were still two coats of arms of the von Rentelen family on the east wall of the church, which were supposed to keep alive the memory of the mayor Henning as well as his son, the councilor Christian (Kersten) , who died in 1431 after in his will, on May 17th, he had designated a precious chalice for use on this altar.

His son Christian von Rentelen also became councilor of the city. Of his daughters, Elisabeth married the mayor of Lübeck, Bruno Warendorp, in his first marriage; Taleke (Adelheid) married the mayor Johann Lüneburg († 1461) in his first marriage. The couple had three children, including Johann Lüneburg († 1474) .

literature

Rudolf Struck : On the knowledge of families in Lübeck and their relationships to local and foreign art monuments in: Museum for Art and Cultural History in Lübeck. Yearbook 1914 • 1915 (Volume II. – III.), HG Rahtgens, Lübeck 1915, p. 41–73 (p. 64 ff .: III. The von Rentelen, the glass paintings of the castle church and the altar shrine of the infirmary chapel in Schwartau )

Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925. No. 434.

Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns, Hugo Rahtgens: The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thought and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 217.230

Individual evidence

↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
↑ See Antje Grewolls: The chapels of the north German churches in the Middle Ages: Architecture and Function. Kiel: Ludwig 1999, ISBN 3-9805480-3-1 , p. 228, see also BuK IV (lit.), p. 217
^ Mary flanked by the apostles Philip and James as well as Katharina and Dorothea (BUK IV, p. 217). The retable has not survived or has not yet been identified
^ Josef Traeger: Michael de Rentelen, OP. In: The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin . St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984, pp. 207-208.
↑ BuK IV (lit.), p. 230 f.
↑ After Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 824.

personal data
SURNAME	Rentelen, Henning von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1360
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1406
Place of death	Paris

[1] Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3

[2] See Antje Grewolls: The chapels of the north German churches in the Middle Ages: Architecture and Function. Kiel: Ludwig 1999, ISBN 3-9805480-3-1 , p. 228, see also BuK IV (lit.), p. 217

[3] Mary flanked by the apostles Philip and James as well as Katharina and Dorothea (BUK IV, p. 217). The retable has not survived or has not yet been identified

[4] Josef Traeger: Michael de Rentelen, OP. In: The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin . St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984, pp. 207-208.

[5] BuK IV (lit.), p. 230 f.

[6] After Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 824.