Johann Ellerborn († 1609)

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Johann Ellerborn (* 16th century in Aachen ; † November 14, 1609 ibid) was aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Live and act

The son of the former mayor Gerhard Ellerborn and his second wife Katharina von Roide followed his father into the college of lay judges in 1590. At a time of increasingly escalating religious unrest in Aachen , Johann Ellerborn, like his father, took a strictly Catholic position. This led to the fact that, as a result of the now majority Protestant city council, he was banished from the city in the same year as most of the Catholic officials and lay judges and found refuge in the neighboring Kornelimünster , where he joined the brotherhood of St. Stephen. But then in 1598 already in 1593 by Emperor Rudolf II. Imposed outlawry had been completed final against the Reformed forces by imperial troops, it came to the impeachment and expulsion of the Protestant ministers and their sympathizers, prompting Ellerborn with the other councilors again solemnly to Aachen returned. For the damage he had suffered, he was then given a certain sum of the fines imposed on the Protestants and their followers in 1602.

Finally, Johann Ellerborn was elected mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen in 1600, 1602, 1604 and 1608 .

Ellerborn was married to Anna von Grein, with whom he had four children, all of whom were underage when he died in November 1609. A coat of arms inscription on an unknown carrier by Johann Ellerborn has come down to us.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the inscription catalog Aachen, DI 32, City of Aachen, No. 96- (Helga Giersiepen)
personal data
SURNAME Ellerborn, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aldermen and mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1609
Place of death Aachen