Johann von Wickede († 1577)

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Johann von Wickede (* in Lübeck ; † June 26, 1577 ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Johann von Wickede was the son of the Lübschen citizen Heinrich von Wickede († 1530). In 1532 he became a member of the patrician circle society in Lübeck. From 1552 to 1562 Johann von Wickede was a knight and house commander of the Coming Reval of the Teutonic Order in Reval . In 1562 he returned to Lübeck. Wickede was elected to the Lübeck Council in 1570 and commanded the Lübeck fleet in the three-crown war in the same year . In 1576 he worked for the Lübeck council together with the last Lübeck bailiff of Bornholm, Mattheus Tidemann, when the island, which had been pledged to Lübeck since 1525, was returned to Denmark.

He lived in the courtyard at St.-Annen-Straße 13 in Lübeck ; the site is now built over with the Lübeck synagogue . He was buried in front of the high altar of the Aegidienkirche , his grave slab is inscribed but no longer verifiable.

literature

  • Emil F. Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie from the beginnings of the city to the present (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Vol. 7, 1, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, No. 686.
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg (1100–1600) (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 40). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 483 ( LÜAE15 ), (also: Kiel, Universität, Dissertation, 1993).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann: Lübeckische Geschichte. 2nd edition, Lübeck 1989, ISBN 3-7950-3203-2 , p. 376 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Wickede, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1577