Johann von Gützkow

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Johann von Gützkow († after March 12, 1257 ), also Johann I , was a lord of Gützkow .

Life

Johann von Gützkow was a son of Jaczo I. von Gützkow and his wife, unknown by name, who, according to widespread literature , is equated with Dobroslawa von Pomerania , less often with Dobroslawa von Schlawe or a daughter of one of the two. Count Konrad I. von Gützkow was his younger brother.

The founding of Hanshagen in 1248 by the Lords of Gützkow is likely to be ascribed to John I or to be seen in connection with him, because the village is initially named after him, Johannishaghen .

In June 1249, Johann compared himself to the Eldena monastery across the border of the forest between Eldena and Gützkow, whereby his brother Konrad acted as a witness for him and the mother of the two also sealed the document, perhaps because both were still underage. On December 19, 1256, Johann and Konrad claimed their tithe on the Liepe peninsula from the Usedom Monastery and negotiated with Bishop Hermann von Cammin . In the same matter, since no result was achieved in 1256, Konrad appeared together with his brother Johann for the last time on March 12, 1257. The gentlemen's claims were then rejected.

family

A wife of Johann I is not known.

Jaczo II. (* 1244), Count von Gützkow, lord of the terra Streu on Rügen and arbitrator of the ducal division of the country from 1295, is seen by younger researchers as the son of Johann I. Historians of the 19th century placed Jaczo II a generation earlier than the younger brother of Johann I and Conrad I.

In particular, Pyl concluded from the documents at hand that Johann I died young, unmarried and therefore without posthumous children.

In the PUB, Prümers concludes from the documents that Johann I was 15 years old in 1249 (the mother's counter-seal was required for minors) and is therefore out of the question as the father of Jaczo II in 1244.

Seal find

Broken seal - Johann I. von Gützkow

2012 soil conservationists M. Rohde found in Nachsuche on the archaeological site of the Slavic Wüstung Swinrowe ( Flurname Dörpstell a piece of metal). After cleaning, it was identified as a fragment of a seal. Comparisons with known seals of the Gützkow counts showed clear similarities.

The assessment by the historian Jörg Ansorge from the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald in 2013 showed that the seal was made around 1250 and belonged to a Mr. von Gützkow.

"Seal of a gentleman from Gützkow:
The stamp was 56 mm in diameter, on the back a bar-shaped handle, along which the stamp broke when smashed. In the triangular empty shield the coat of arms of those of Gützkow, two crossed beams with four roses in the spandrels. Based on the inscription, the seal can be dated to the second half of the 13th century, due to the designation of the owner as dominus (lord) and not comites (count), the piece was probably made before 1270. At this time, the gentlemen Johann (last 1257) and Konrad (last 1284) are documented. Konrad is first referred to as Comites in 1270.
I consider one of the two to be the owner of the seal stamp, as an experiment I decided on Johann for the reconstruction. "

- Jörg Ansorge : Excerpt from the report on the find

As the elder, Johann was the ruling lord of Gützkow, he sealed the seal for the first time in 1249. After his death, his seal was, as usual, smashed and given to the archaeologically known metalworkers of the settlement Swinrowe to be melted down.

The archaeological significance of the find corresponds to the discovery of a fragment of a seal belonging to Prince Wizlaw III , which was rated as a sensation . von Rügen in the spring of 2013 near Stralsund. With the two fragments, seal stamps of the early medieval high nobility were found in Germany for the first time.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pommersches Urkundenbuch , Vol. 1, Section 2, Prümers 1877, p. 535 (register).
  2. ↑ a b Robert Klempin : Family Tables of the Pommersch-Rügischen Princely House and its subsidiary lines , from the estate of R. Klempin given for printing by G. v. Bülow . Stettin 1876, p. 5 and 7th
  3. ^ A b Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables , Volume III, Part I, Verlag Vittorio Klostermann , Frankfurt am Main 1984, Plate 7A (based on a manuscript by Edward Rymar ).
  4. ^ Johannes Hoffmann: Studies on the history of the counts of Gützkow. Dissertation, University of Greifswald 1946.
  5. ^ A b Roderich Schmidt :  Gützkow, Count of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 290 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. ^ Norbert Buske : Nikolai Church in Gützkow - Church history. 1986, p. 62.
  7. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch. Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 491.
  8. ^ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 2, Section 1, Prümers 1881, Year 1256, No. 628, p. 34.
  9. ^ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 2, Section 1, Prümers 1881, Year 1257, No. 646, p. 48.
  10. ^ Adolf Hofmeister : Genealogical investigations into the history of the Pomeranian ducal house. Greifswald treatises on the history of the Middle Ages, Volume 11. University publishing house Ratsbuchhandlung L. Bamberg, Greifswald 1938, pp. 52–63
  11. ↑ a b Theodor Pyl :  Jaczo von Salzwedel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 633-636.
  12. ↑ Albert Georg Schwartz : Diplomatic history. History of the county. P. 808 and 840 ( Google books ).
  13. ^ Nordkurier , April 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Johann von Gützkow
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johannes von Gützkow; Johann I. von Gützkow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mr. von Gützkow
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 13th Century