Johann Crispin

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Johann Crispin and his wife Taleke, b. Kerckring
Seal of Johann Crispin (around 1408)

Johann Crispin († April 8, 1442 in Lübeck ) was a councilor from Lübeck.

Life

Johann Crispin was the son of Lübeck councilor Segebodo Crispin († 1388) and great-grandson of Lübeck mayor Segebodo Crispin († 1323) .

Johann Crispin was elected councilor of Lübeck in 1396. In 1400/1401 he was in command of the Lübeck fleet in the fight against the Vitalienbrüder . During the civil unrest he left the city and was one of the members of the Old Council who sued the New Council. His remaining property in Lübeck was confiscated by the New Council, including his house and nine stalls. He returned to the city with the Old Council in 1416 and negotiated several times with King Erik VII of Denmark in Copenhagen in 1416 and 1417 about relations between Denmark and Lübeck and the Hanseatic League and securing privileges in shipping and trade. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

Johann Crispin had inherited the Lübschen estates Groß Steinrade, Bliesdorf and Wulmenau from his father ; also half of Krummesse and Kronsforde each . Over the latter he got into a legal dispute with Duke Erich V of Saxony-Lauenburg , in the course of which he was declared eighth by the Imperial Court of Justice in 1418 . Only after the Duke had recognized his property rights against payment of 300 marks, the figure eight was lifted again.

Johann Crispin was a member of the patrician circle society and married to Taleke (Adelheid), a daughter of councilor Bertold Kerkring († 1405). He lived in his father's house at 46 Breite Strasse . He was buried in the family chapel in the Katharinenkirche (Lübeck) ; the coat of arms slab is still preserved.

The Crispins are counted among the co-founders of the Katharinenkloster Lübeck , whose construction they supported with considerable funds. The northeastern choir aisle of the Katharinenkirche was built directly as a family chapel according to recent research. The medieval family portraits from this chapel show Segebodo Crispin and his wife, several generations of the Crispins with their wives and are now in the medieval collection of the St. Anne's Museum . The panel paintings were transferred to the wooden panels after the frescoes in the chapel around 1440, with Johann Crispin and his wife sitting down and repainted in 1577 by the painter Gregor von Gehrden . The names of the people depicted were mixed up in the individual panel paintings. The assignment is therefore only possible via the family coat of arms of the wives.

literature

  • Uwe Albrecht , Jörg Rosenfeld and Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume I: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, St. Annen Museum . Kiel: Ludwig, 2005, p. 174 ff. ISBN 3933598753
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 435
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 818-820 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X
  • Carl Julius Milde : Seal of the Middle Ages from the archives of the city of Lübeck. Lübeck 1862, p. 4 ff. ( Online in the Google book search)
  • Heike Trost: The Katharinenkirche in Lübeck: Franciscan architecture in the brick area. From the architecture of the mendicant order to the citizen church. Kevelaer: Butzon and Bercker (Edition Coelde) 2006 (Franziskanische Forschungen, H. 47), zugl .: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2004 ISBN 978-3-7666-2106-1

Web links

Commons : Johann Crispin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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
  2. ↑ Krüger (Lit), p. 818f (LÜKA23)
  3. ↑ Consolation: Katharinenkirche (lit.), p. 190
personal data
SURNAME Crispin, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck councilor
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1442
Place of death Lübeck