Hugo of Hildesheim

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Hugo von Hildesheim was one of the few large and long-distance merchants from the early days of the Hanseatic League whose individual fate can be reconstructed. His work fell in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. In retrospect, he is described as very influential.

Life

He probably came from one of the two leading ministerial families of the episcopal city of Hildesheim at that time - either de Insula ( de: "from the Werder") or de veteri foro (de: "from the old market"). Both repeatedly provided both the town bailiff and the bailiff of the Michaeliskloster . Hugo probably married Thanbrigge, a daughter of the Holsteiner Overboden Marcrad II , who was born in 1181 by Count Adolf III. had been expelled to Schleswig . Hugo established his trading business between his hometown, Neumünster , Lübeck and Livonia . His marriage made him the best known example of the connection between the early Hanseatic and early urban ruling class and the old-free and low-nobility rural families.

A Hugo von Hildesheim, who was abbot of the Augustinian Canons Monastery in Neumünster , is also known around the same time . In addition, in 1224 Thanbrigge donated 2½ Hufen land in the Holstein fallow field from the property of the monastery to the Daugavgrīva monastery in today's Riga . Both suggests that the abbot and the merchant Hugo were the same person.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bickerich, Wolfram : Limitless Profits . In: Spiegel special , № 1/2002, March 1, 2002, page 47. Retrieved from spiegel.de ( Spiegel Online ) on March 27, 2016.
  2. ↑ Hammel-Kiesow, Rolf : The Hanse . 4th edition, Verlag CH Beck , 2008, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406-44731-0 , page 41.
  3. ↑ Chapter 5. Vergot Daso at the hearing in Heinkenborstel . Retrieved from dosenmoor.de on April 15, 2015.
  4. ^ Bünz, Enno : Hugo von Hildesheim. An early Hanseatic long-distance trader in the Baltic Sea region and the Holstein nobility around 1200 . In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter , Volume 113, 1995, pages 7-26.
personal data
SURNAME Hugo of Hildesheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wholesalers and long-distance merchants of the Hanseatic League
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 13th Century