Johann von Wedel

Johann von Wedel (Hans von Wedel, Johann von Wedel-Falkenburg; around 1350) was a Vogt in Neumark .

Johann von Wedel was a grandson of Ludolf von Wedel and presumably a brother of the court master Hasso von Wedel-Falkenburg . From 1344 he appeared as a chamber master (head of finance) for various Brandenburg margraves . In November 1348, together with Heinrich Mörner , Otto Mörner , Reineke Mörner , Arnold (II) von Uchtenhagen and Henning von Uchtenhagen, he was given the district bailiff in the area of Königsberg , Soldin , Schönfließ , Lippehne , Bärwalde and Mohrin , which he held until 1352 perceived. Since 1348 he was involved in negotiations with the rebels as part of the clashes with supporters of the False Woldemar . On October 8, 1354, Ludwig the Roman appointed his chamber master Wedel together with his nephew Hasso to be the governor of the Mark on this side of the Oder.

On October 16, 1355 he was enfeoffed together with this nephew and his brother by the margrave with half of the house and town of Oderberg and half of the then Finow and Lunowsee, which he had previously paid for 600 marks of Brandenburg silver from Henning von Uchtenhagen and his sons of the late Arnold (II) von Uchtenhagen . Wedel, who acquired a second fiefdom of the Uchtenhagen with the house and town of Berneuchen around the same time , took up residence in Oderberg. He was allowed to fix the castle there in its previous location or to rebuild it at any point. It is unclear to what extent the construction had already begun or completed under the previous owners.

The last time mentioned Johann von Wedel was in 1367, when members of the family Stegelitz , Uchtenhagen and Güntersberg the Margrave Otto asked for protection against him, his sons and his followers. Between Otto, who succeeded Ludwig the Römer in 1364, and the Wedel family, there had been a conflict since 1365 because of the appointment of a stranger to the Neumark bailiff, in the course of which larger parts of the Wedel, the 40 years, broke up unanimously on the side of the Wittelsbachers, turned away from Otto. The margrave could not directly assist the complainants against the powerful vassal, but made use of a right of repurchase reserved in the case of enfeoffment in relation to Oderberg in 1367. Berneuchen sold the Wedel-Falkenburg around 1374.

literature

• Christian Gahlbeck: On the origin and composition of the Neumark nobility up to the middle of the 14th century. In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.), Landlord, Nobility and Cities in Medieval and Early Modern Neumark , Berlin 2015, pp. 115–181.
• Heinrich von Wedel: Hasso the Rothe v. Wedel wedding and knight Hasso II. Wedel-Falkenburg . Berlin 1897.
• Helga Cramer: The Lords of Wedel in the country over the Oder. Property and rule formation up to 1402. In: Yearbook for the history of Central and East Germany . Volume 18, Berlin 1969.
• Johannes Schultze : The Mark Brandenburg. Second volume. The mark under the rule of the Wittelsbachers and Luxembourgers (1319–1415). Berlin 1961.