Johann Klingenberg († 1454)

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Johann Klingenberg (* in Lübeck ; † October 10, 1455 ibid) was councilor, Lübeck mayor and diplomat of the Hanseatic League .

Life

Johann Klingenberg was the son of Lübeck councilor Goswin Klingenberg . He was elected councilor of Lübeck in 1426 and was already a member of the patrician Lübeck circle society on Trinity 1429 . Together with the councilor Johann Kollmann , he was with King Erik VII of Denmark in 1430 . In the Lübeck council he was appointed mayor in 1432 and received at the Hanseatic League in 1434, with King Heinrich VI. to start negotiations from England to secure the privileges of the Hanseatic merchants at the Stalhof . The first legation trip together with delegates from other Hanseatic cities took place in October 1434. On the way back he visited Flanders and the Hansekontor in Bruges . In 1436 he traveled again to Flanders to continue negotiations with English ambassadors; the absence of the negotiating partner he went to London in November 1436 to the English court, where he stayed until July of the following year 1437 and received confirmation of the privileges. In 1440 he represented the city in Lüneburg and in 1445 in Bergedorf. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian . In 1455 he made his will.

In 1439, King Albrecht II awarded him the insignia of an order of knights he founded.

Johann Klingenberg was married to Elisabeth, a daughter of Councilor Marquard von Dame , and he lived in the house at Breite Straße 6 . As a pension he owned the Lübschen estates Eckhorst, Klein Steinrade and a farm in Krempelsdorf. The Klingenberg couple were buried together under a grave slab that had been written on but was no longer intact in the choir of the Jakobikirche , of which Klingenberg had been the head of the church.

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 52 ( digitized version )
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 507
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 755–756 ( LÜJA * 9 ) ISBN 3-7995-5940-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to the grave slab; at Fehling: 1454
  2. ↑ 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
personal data
SURNAME Klingenberg, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor, Mayor of Lübeck and diplomat of the Hanseatic League
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1455
Place of death Lübeck