Herbord Schene

Herbord Schene (* around 1330 in Bremen ; † June 21, 1413 or 1414 there ) was a Bremen canon and chronicler . Together with Gerd Rinesberch he wrote the first Low German city ​​chronicle of Bremen.

Life

Schene was the son of the citizen Gottfried Schene, who was elected to the Bremen council in 1354 , and his wife Hillegunde. Herbord and his brother Gerhard were canons at the Bremen Cathedral . After the death of their father, the brothers bought land in Lehe for 12 marks , this land purchase was followed by others, such as on July 14, 1399 in Butzinghausen and Buttel . Herbord Schene also donated 100 Marks to the Lilienthal Monastery , money with which it was supposed to buy land, from which Schene was supposed to receive a 5 Mark pension annually. In 1403 the monastery, which existed from 1232 to 1650, acquired land in Rockwinkel ( Oberneuland parish ) for Schene's usufruct . His sister was a nun there, and after her death Schene set up a foundation in her memory.

Herbord is attested on September 15, 1360 as a beneficiary of the Jakobikapelle in the cathedral. In 1374 he seems to have held one of the four deacon positions. In 1373 at the latest he became a canon at the St. Ansgarii Church and at the latest since May 31, 1377 Cellerarius in the cathedral chapter ("keller to deme dome"). In 1392 he testified in a will as a notary admitted by the power of imperial authority , as publicus imperiali auctoritate notarius . He distinguished himself several times as a mediator in disputes within the cathedral clergy. In 1401 the archbishop confirmed several of his foundations. In the same year he gave the city 30 marks for a pension of 2 marks per year.

Schene became known through the Bremen Chronicle, which he wrote together with the older cathedral vicar Gerd Rinesberch (around 1315-1406). In doing so, they drew on the history of the Bremen archbishops, the Lübeck city chronicle, other works and numerous documents . At the end of the 17th century, Peter Koster called her work the Schenen and Rynsbergen Chronica and the Schenen Chronica . It was the starting point for further city chronicles in Bremen. Johann Hemeling (1358–1428), Mayor of Bremen from 1405 to 1410, continued editing the Bremen Chronicle by Rinesberch and Schene, albeit in a tendentious manner.

On May 6, 1418 Schene was named as deceased, so he must have ended his life at an unknown time before this date, as the publisher of the Bremer Chronik JM Lappenberg stated in 1841. His will is from March 23, 1412. It shows him to be a wealthy man. He appointed his maid Mette Stenes and their daughter Hillegunde as heirs, to whom he had given his mother's name. The two lived in his house.

Editions

• Johann Martin Lappenberg: Historical sources of the archbishopric and the city of Bremen. Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1841.
• Gerd Rinesberch and Herbord Schene: Bremer Chronik. In: Bremen . The chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony (37th volume), historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences by Hermann Meinert (ed.), Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1968.

literature

• Hermann Meinert: The Bremen Chronicle of Rynesberch, Schene and Hemeling. On their new edition in the series of German city chronicles. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 48 (1962), pp. 132-138.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Herbert Black Forest: Gerd Rinesberch and Herbort Schene. Clergy, historians and Bremen patriots. In: Ders .: Famous people from Bremen. Munich 1972, pp. 27-31.
• Herbert Black Forest: The Chronicle of Rinesberch and Schene. Author, editor, tradition. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 52 (1972), pp. 21–37.
• Walther Stein: The Bremen Chronicle of Rynesberch and Schene. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 33 (1906), pp. 139–212.
• Klaus Wriedt : Rinesberch and Schene, Bremer Chronik . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 7, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7608-8907-7 , Sp. 855.

Web links

• Schene, Herbord in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ulrich Weidinger: Admission, Resumption or Congenital Membership? Bremen's way into the Hanseatic League. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 88 (2009) p. 26.
2. ↑ Thomas Hill: The city and its market : Bremen's surrounding and external relations in the Middle Ages (12th to 15th centuries), Wiesbaden: Steiner 2004, p. 40 names the year 1414, Hans Rupprich : History of German literature . Vol. IV, 1: From the late Middle Ages to the Baroque, Part One: The Outgoing Middle Ages, Humanism and Renaissance, 1370–1520 . 2nd edition, CH Beck 1994, p. 156 names the time between 1413 and 1417. Here I am following Ludwig Erich Schmitt: Kurzer Grundriß der Germanischen Philologie bis 1500 . Vol. 2: History of literature . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1971, p. 271.
3. ↑ This already suspected in 1846 Johann Hermann Duntze: History of the free city of Bremen . Vol. 2, Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1846, p. 325.
4. ↑ Sabine Presuhn: Dead is he who is forgotten. Remembrance of the dead at St. Ansgarii Church in Bremen as reflected in the necrology from the 15th century Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2001, p. 102.
5. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (ed.): Document book of the Lilienthal monastery 1232–1500 . Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, 2002, p. 344.
6. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (ed.): Document book of the Lilienthal monastery 1232–1500 . Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, 2002, p. 395.
7. ^ Johann Hermann Duntze: History of the free city of Bremen. Vol. 2, Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1846, p. 326.
8. ^ Johann Martin Lappenberg: Historical sources of the archbishopric and the city of Bremen , Bremen: Johann Georg Heyse 1841, p. 217. Please note: In the foreword “before 1422” and “before 1424” are mentioned, p. XVI.
9. ^ Diedrich Rudolf Ehmck and Wilhelm von Bippen (eds.): Bremisches Urkundenbuch. Vol. 5: Documents from 1411-1433 . S. 21 ff., No. 21. In No. 222, S. 237, Schene is mentioned as deceased in 1424.