Hoyko Manninga

Hoyko Manninga (also: Haiko or Hayko Manninga; * after 1509, † 1568 ) was the last male descendant of the East Frisian chief family Manninga , who resided in Pewsum since around 1400 . His father Focko Manninga († 1539) had started in 1529 to convert the stone house to Pewsum into a four-wing castle (the Manningaburg ). After the death of his father, Hoyko Manninga continued to expand the family headquarters.

Although Hoyko Manninga was relatively well off and wealthy, he had taken on considerable debts with his father's inheritance. With his first wife Tetta, the heiress of Herrlichkeit and Burg Oldersum, and with his second wife, Johanna Mulert zu Kranenburg, he also lived very lavishly and was considered to be addicted to alcohol. As early as 1540 he sold his Jennelt estate to his relative Christoph von Ewsum , in 1560 the Asinga house in Warffum ( Groningen ), in 1560 and 1562 still land at Visquard and lands at Jennelt that still belonged to him. In 1565 he was finally forced to sell the castle and the glory of Pewsum, which Catherine of Sweden , wife of the then sovereign, Count Edzard II , bought for 80,000 guilders . Nevertheless, the couple was able to acquire the houses in Kranenburg and Staverden (near Zwolle and Harderwijk ).

Hoyko was an avid supporter of the Reformation . His great uncle Poppo Manninga († 1540), on the other hand, was the last Catholic provost of Emden . Presumably Hoyko secretly supported the sectarian Hendrik Niclaes , who was expelled from the city of Emden in 1560. In 1566 he was one of the initiators of the iconoclasm in Groningen . As a church patron in Pewsum, Campen and Woquard , he installed Dutch religious refugees as pastors. Hoyko died in 1568, possibly killed in the battle of Heiligerlee or that of Jemgum . His widow settled in the Kranenburg and married the Marran Gabriel de Salazar in 1570 .

Hoyko Manninga is occasionally confused in literature with his second cousin Hayo Manninga von Langhaus zu Lütetsburg and Dijksterhuis († 1591), the builder of the Langhaus house in the Westermarsch near the north . This was also wealthy in Groningen ; he was a count's councilor at the court of Edzard II , mayor of the north and later landscape deputy in the assembly of estates of the Groningen Ommelanden .

literature

• Hidde Feenstra: Hoyko Manninga . In: Martin Tielke: Biographical Lexicon for Ostfriesland . Volume 3. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, Aurich 2001, ISBN 3-932206-22-3 , pp. 280–281.