Johann von Elpen

Johann von Elpen ( bl. 1533–1535) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck during the Wullenwever period .

Life

Johann von Elpen's life and origin data are not known. He was a businessman and was elected to the Lübeck Council on January 21, 1533 as a member of the 64 citizens' committee .

He traveled with Wullenwever, Anton von Stiten and Joachim Gercken to the Hanseatic Day on February 26, 1534 in Hamburg, which was about peace negotiations in the unsuccessful caper war against the Dutch instigated by Jürgen Wullenwever . Also in 1534 Johann von Elpen was together with the councilor Gerhard Odingborg as Lübeck's ambassador to King Henry VIII of England. In August 1535 he resigned from the Lübeck council . Since Jürgen Wullenwever confessed in his embarrassing questioning in March 1536 that Elpen had been involved in his planning as a whole, he was imprisoned in the Marstall on March 24, 1536 . His detention was converted to house arrest on April 2, 1536, which was lifted on August 30, 1536. Thereafter the tradition is lost. It is uncertain whether he is the "Hans von Elpen" who appeared as a joint plaintiff in an inheritance matter that was brought before the Imperial Court of Justice in 1555 .

According to a source cited by Georg Waitz , his sister was married to Marx Meyer .

literature

Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.640

Individual evidence

↑ The only von Elpen known from Lübeck at the same time is Marcus von Elpen, who in the 1530s held a vicarie at the chapel donated by Johann Darsow in the Marienkirche and another at the Jakobikirche (Rafael Ehrhardt: Familie und Memoria in der Stadt A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages . Göttingen 2001; pp. 238 and 366).
↑ Archive Lübeck 03.02-1.3 / 1 S 045
^ Georg Waitz: Lübeck under Jürgen Wullenwever and European politics , Volume 3. Berlin 1856; P. 224. According to other sources, Meyer's wife was Elsabe von Wickede, a daughter of Hermann von Wickede .

personal data
SURNAME	Elpen, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1505
DATE OF DEATH	after 1535

[1] The only von Elpen known from Lübeck at the same time is Marcus von Elpen, who in the 1530s held a vicarie at the chapel donated by Johann Darsow in the Marienkirche and another at the Jakobikirche (Rafael Ehrhardt: Familie und Memoria in der Stadt A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages . Göttingen 2001; pp. 238 and 366).

[2] Archive Lübeck 03.02-1.3 / 1 S 045

[3] Georg Waitz: Lübeck under Jürgen Wullenwever and European politics , Volume 3. Berlin 1856; P. 224. According to other sources, Meyer's wife was Elsabe von Wickede, a daughter of Hermann von Wickede .