Johann Chorus
Johann Chorus (* 14th century ; † around 1367 in Aachen ) was aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .
Live and act
According to the Aachen history researcher Christian Quix , Johann Chorus seems to have been a brother of the long-time mayor Ritter Gerhard Chorus , which can also be confused with the slightly older Johann Chorus, who was nicknamed "Schellart" and Vogt and Meier from Aachen.
What is certain is that the Johann Chorus described here was elected to the city council from 1338. According to the Aachen city accounts, Johann Chorus seems to have already exercised the office of mayor as early as 1349, at the time when he was delegated to several consultations, including Jülich and Brussels, as envoy of the city of Aachen. It is also certain that he was re-elected mayor in 1364, but it is unclear whether there are further terms of office in between, as the records from those years are incomplete.
Johann Chorus was involved early on in the efforts to establish a new peace alliance and when the Maas-Rhein peace alliance finally came about in 1351 , he was one of the three jury members of this alliance provided by the city of Aachen. In this function, Chorus was involved in the siege of Gripekoven Castle in 1353/1354 as a representative of the city together with the allied troops of the alliance . From this castle, renegade knights are said to have carried out their raids and supported an uprising of the Jülich knighthood, which put the reputation and the existence of the Duchy of Jülich into question. After a long period of siege, which ended with the handover of the castle and the granting of free withdrawal for the besieged, it was then razed to the ground.
Finally, Johann Chorus was accepted into the college of aldermen in 1358, to which he then belonged, as usual, until the end of his life in 1367 or a little later.
Sources and literature
- Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen : The lay judges of the Royal See of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 50 , 1928, ISSN 0065-0137 , pp. 112–114 (digital copies from p. 112–113 and p. 114 ).
- Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The Aachen mayors from 1251 to 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 55 , 1933, pp. 47–48 ( digitized version [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chorus, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aldermen and mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1367 |
| Place of death | Aachen |