Johann von Mengede

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Johann von Mengede , also Johann von Mengden , called Osthof (* around 1400; † August 15, 1469 ), was Commander of Reval from 1442 to 1450 and then from 1450 to 1469 Landmeister of the Teutonic Order in Livonia . He stood for election as Landmeister of Livonia in April 1450 and died in the summer of 1469.

He is the best-known representative of the noble family of the von Mengede from the Counts of Brandenburg .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Bernhart Jähnig:  Johann von Mengede (called Osthoff). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 68 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. According to Neitmann Sommer 1469, according to Seraphim, p. 150 in May 1469, according to Napiersky, p. 47 (No. 2038), Mengede grants a fief on June 12, 1469. His successor was elected on January 7, 1470 (Neitmann).
  3. Karl Eduard Napiersky : Index corporis historico-diplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae, Curoniae: or, a short excerpt from the collection of documents which for the history and the old constitutional law of Liv, Ehst and Kurland ... , Verlag E. Frantzen, 1835, Volume 2, Page 2 online at books.google.com, viewed August 25, 2010
  4. ^ Klaus Neitmann , Wolfgang Neugebauer (Ed.): Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 3-598-23201-2 , p. 237, online at books.google.com, viewed August 25, 2010
predecessor Office successor
Heinrich Vincke from Overberg Landmaster in Livonia of the Teutonic Order
1450–1469
Johann Wolthus von Herse