Jacobus dictus magnus

Jacobus dictus magnus (Eng. Jakob, called the Great ; † around 1315) was a councilor and mayor who lived in Dresden in the Middle Ages .

Jacobus was first mentioned in a document from April 18, 1292, in which he was named as a witness. In the same year he was named as an arbitrator in a legal dispute between Friedrich von Dresden and the Bishop of Meißen (document dated October 1, 1292). In 1296 he was mayor of the city.

Jacobus had two sons, Jacobus (d. J.) and Johannes, the latter also appearing in a document in 1296. In 1304, with the consent of his sons, he transferred 28 shillings of annual interest to the Dresden Elbe Bridge , which came from the village of Golberode , which was given to them as a fief . In 1311 he is mentioned again as a councilor. Presumably Jacobus died in 1315/16, as his two sons, according to a last decree in 1316, gave the Dresden Infirmary Hospital 2 pounds of gold annual income from some houses on the Elbe, which the family had also been given as a fief.

literature

• Otto Richter : Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885, p. 398/99.
• Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Hermanus of Blankenwalde (1292)	Mayor of Dresden 1296	Theodericus Berner (1301, 1303, 1307)