Jakob Bramstede

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Jakob Bramstede (* before 1398; † August 1, 1455 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant, councilor of the Hanseatic city and Lübeck and commander of the Lübeck fleet.

Life

Jakob Bramstede was the son of the Lübeck citizen Johann Bramstede († 1397) and a daughter of Ludbert von Camen. In 1426 he was elected to the Lübeck Council and in 1427 was the city's envoy in Wismar . During the Sund Customs War , Bramstede commanded the Lübeck fleet in the Baltic Sea in 1428. As councilor he was active in many diplomatic missions for Lübeck: In 1432 he mediated the dispute between the Hamburg council and Lübeck merchants. In 1437 he took part in the peace negotiations with the Dutch to end the Hanseatic-Dutch War in Deventer . In March 1440 he campaigned in Lüneburg for Lüneburg to participate in the war against the Dutch. In 1443 he mediated between Kings Erik VII and Christopher III on the island of Gotland . from Denmark. 1444 participants in the peace negotiations with the Dutch in Kampen (Netherlands) . In 1445 he tried the Hamburg council from participating in the embassy to King Christoph III. to convince, on the August / September Lübeck at the wedding of Christoph III. represented Dorothea von Brandenburg and at the same time negotiated a confirmation of the trading privileges of the Hanseatic League in Norway and Sweden. In May 1447 he represented Lübeck in a dispute with Duke Heinrich IV of Mecklenburg and in July of that year he was with the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Konrad von Erlichshausen at the Marienburg fortress in order to win him over as an active ally in Flanders. In 1450 he was with the mayor Wilhelm von Calven as ambassador of Lübeck in the negotiations about the coin recess with the cities of the Wendish Mint Association . He represented the city several times at Hanseatic days . In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

Jakob Bramstede became a member of the patrician circle society in Lübeck in 1429 . He initially lived in the property at Breite Straße 38 and, from 1437, at Johannisstraße 12 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
personal data
SURNAME Bramstede, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, councilor of the Hanseatic city and Lübeck and commander of the Lübeck fleet
DATE OF BIRTH before 1398
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1455
Place of death Lübeck