Hisko of Emden

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Hisko Abdena , provost of Emden (* unknown; † 1427 ) belonged to one of the most powerful East Frisian chief families at the end of the 14th century : the Abdenas . The city of Emden was its center of power.

Life

From 1398, after the Vitalienbrüder had been expelled from the island of Gotland and thus from the Baltic Sea , Hisko took parts of the pirates into his home. In order to protect his own territorial and political interests, he finally collaborated with the Hanseatic League and handed over the city and castle of Emden to it on May 6, 1400. This laid the basis for further operations against the pirates in East Friesland .

In 1413 Keno II succeeded tom Brok in driving Hisko out of Emden. As a result, he fled to Groningen (now the Netherlands ).

See also

literature

  • Heinrich Schmidt: The eastern Friesland around 1400. Territorial-political structures and movements . In: Wilfried Ehbrecht: Störtebeker. 600 years after his death . Porta-Alba-Verlag, Trier 2005, ISBN 3933701147 , pp. 85-110.
  • Ubbo Emmius: Frisian History .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ André Koller: agonality and cooperation. Leadership groups in the north-west of the empire 1250–1550 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1587-7 , p. 331.
personal data
SURNAME Hisko of Emden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provost of Emden
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1427