Jakob Pleskow

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Jakob Pleskow (* around 1323 in Visby ; † August 1, 1381 in Rostock ) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

Pleskow was the son of the Wisby councilor Johannes Pleskow and acquired Lübsche citizenship together with his mother in 1341. He was councilor in 1352 and mayor of the city in 1364 , which he represented at all Hanseatic days from 1363-1381 , on which he also presided over. In 1366, Pleskow was at the request of Pope Urban V together with councilor Bernhard Oldenborch in Danzig to negotiate settlement between the Archbishop of Riga Fromhold von Vifhusen and the Teutonic Order in a dispute over Russian trade. He is thus Lübeck's foreign policy maker in the second half of the 14th century. The Cologne Confederation and the Peace of Stralsund fell into the period of his activity . Together with Bertram Wulflam from Stralsund he had for the Hanse the great merit that they could not be intoxicated by past victories, but to the warmongers resisted, so in short, proved that Hanseatic wisdom that combines strength with a deep desire for peace ... . He was buried in the chancel of the Marienkirche in Lübeck , where his gravestone of Jacob von Melle was still recorded, but was then lost.

He was married to Herdecke Pleskow († November 30, 1405). The daughter of the couple Elisabeth married the Lübeck councilor Johann Darsow . His grandson Godeke Pleskow also became a councilor in Lübeck.

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 373
  • Philippe Dollinger : Die Hanse , Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-520-37102-2
  • Jürgen Wiegandt: The Plescows - A contribution to the emigration of Wisby merchant families to Lubeck in the 13th and 14th centuries: (Sources and representations on Hanseatic history) 1988

swell

  1. ↑ Fehling: Council line
  2. ^ Dollinger: Die Hanse , p. 103
  3. ↑ Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 387
personal data
SURNAME Pleskow, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1323
PLACE OF BIRTH Visby
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1381
Place of death Rostock