Jakob von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst

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Jakob Graf von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (* August 24, 1463 ; † 1484 ) was a German pirate .

Jakob was born on August 24, 1463 as the son of Count Moritz III. von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst and his wife, Countess Katharina von Hoya , born; one of his uncles was Count Gerd von Oldenburg ( Gerd the brave ). When Jacob's parents died in August 1464, Count Gerd, as Jakobs' guardian, had the Delmenhorst council and team pay homage to Jakob, which documented the formal independence of the Delmenhorst rulership.

When Count Gerd due to his disputes with Gerhard III. von Hoya , the Archbishop of Bremen , feared that this influence could gain on Jakob, he transferred the guardianship in 1474 to another uncle of Jacob, the Count of Hoya , whereupon the now Bremen Archbishop Heinrich XXVII. von Schwarzburg Jakob enfeoffed with lordship and Delmenhorst Castle. When Jakob came of age, the Archbishop of Bremen enfeoffed him again on September 7, 1479 with rule and Castle Delmenhorst .

Although Jakob had stayed at the Archbishop's court in Bremen for some time, he immediately joined his uncle Count Gerd politically after reaching the age of majority and began to raid and rob Hanseatic merchants from Delmenhorst Castle . Delmenhorst became the base of Count Gerd for his raids and battles with the Bremen church. On January 20, 1482 Delmenhorst had to surrender to a Bremen siege army; Jakob emigrated to the court of his cousin, the Danish King Hans . He apparently did not see himself in a position to support him politically, but got him a ship with which Jakob supposedly wanted to take a trip to France . In fact, Jakob was pirating and taking brutal revenge on Hanseatic seafarers who fell into his hands. The circumstances of his death are unclear; allegedly he fell ill with scurvy and died in the summer of 1484, probably barely 20 years old, in a Swedish port city.

literature

  • Dieter Rüdebusch: Jakob, Count of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 343f.
  • Otto Kähler: The counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst in the first half of the XV. Century. Stalling, Marburg 1894 (Marburg, Univ., Phil. Diss., 1894).
  • Edgar Grundig: History of the city of Delmenhorst up to the year 1848. The political development and the history of the castle (= Delmenhorster Schriften 9, ZDB -ID 121757-4 ). Rieck, Delmenhorst 1979.
  • Jürgen Peter Ravens : Delmenhorst. Residence, country town, industrial center. 1371-1971. Rieck, Delmenhorst 1971.
  • Hermann Oncken : Count Gerd von Oldenburg (1430–1500) primarily in the mouths of his contemporaries. In: Yearbook for the history of the Duchy of Oldenburg. 2, 1893, ZDB ID 217795-x , pp. 14-84.

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