Johann Lange (Councilor)
Johann Lange († 1385 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
The merchant Johann Lange was elected to the Lübeck council in 1368. For a time he stayed in Skåne as Lübeck's Vogt to raise the pound duty there. In 1373 he was involved in a loan from Lübeck merchants of 4,500 marks to Duke Erich IV of Saxony-Lauenburg . In 1375 he was one of the Lübeck ambassadors to King Waldemar IV of Denmark. He represented the city on many Hanseatic days from 1368 to 1382.
Lange was married to Elisabeth van Hachede, a sister of the Lübeck councilor Hinrich van Hacheden . He lived in the house at Mengstrasse 64 in Lübeck's old town .
The today no longer verifiable grave slab of Laurentius Lange, who died around 1420, was located in Lübeck Cathedral and showed the same family coat of arms.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 401
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 593 (LÜDO112) ISBN 3-7995-5940-X
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lange, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th century or 14th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1385 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |