Johann van Doway
Johann van Doway , also Johann von Douai , (* before 1250 possibly in Douai ; † around / after 1305) was a Lübeck merchant , council messenger and envoy of the Hanseatic League . He was one of the leading foreign politicians in Lübeck and the Hanseatic League in the late 13th century.
According to its name, Doway could have come from the Flemish city of Douai. This would have additionally qualified him for his first major diplomatic mission. He was elected to the city council in 1273. Doway represented Lübeck, previously in writing by many Hanseatic cities until after Visby had authorized leave, in the severe crisis of the years 1280-1282 around the Hansekontor in Bruges and the boycott of the storehouse Bruges with Count Guido I. in Flanders and in the negotiations with the city of Bruges. The boycott triggered by the discrimination against foreign merchants in Bruges led to the temporary relocation of the trading activities of the German Hanseatic merchants to Aardenburg in 1280 . Only after large concessions by the city of Bruges did the Hanseatic merchants agree to return to Bruges. The boycott and the economic blockade were henceforth the most successful political leverage of the Hanseatic League in defending the trade privileges it had acquired abroad.
After this successful diplomatic mission, others followed in 1286 to Zealand to King Erik V of Denmark , in 1287 in Gotland and Reval . In 1293 with King Erik VI. from Denmark in Bergen in Norway and in 1295 and 1303 with King Birger I of Sweden .
Johann van Doway represented the council of the city of Lübeck in the disputes and the process with the contentious Lübeck bishop Burkhard von Serkem and the cathedral chapter .
His house in Lübeck was at Breiten Straße No. 2, since 1535 the house of the Schiffergesellschaft . The house was sold by his children as heirs in 1306.
literature
- Wilhelm Mantels : Douay, Johann von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 367.
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck, 1925
- Detlef Kattinger: Johann van Douai in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Volume 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 85 ff. ISBN 3529025607
Remarks
- ^ Visby's consent to Philippe Dollinger : The Hanse in the annex to the sources
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Johann van Doway |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johann of Douai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lübeck merchant, council messenger and envoy of the Hanseatic League |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1250 |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1303 and 1306 |