Jordan Pleskow (Councilor)

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Jordan Pleskow († after August 5, 1451 in Lübeck ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Jordan Pleskow came from the Pleskow merchant family who had migrated back to Lübeck from Visby . His father was the eponymous mayor of Lübeck, Jordan Pleskow . Like his father, he was a member of the patrician circle society as early as Trinity 1429 . In 1438 he was elected to the Lübeck council. In wills of Lübeck citizens he is mentioned more often as a documentary witness and as a guardian .

Pleskow was married to Elisabeth Pleskow, the daughter of distant relative Johann Pleskow. He lived in the house inherited from his father at St.-Annen-Straße 2 ; the property is now built over with the lodge house. Jordan Pleskow died of the plague , which also fell victim to the related councilor Godeke Pleskow that year .

literature

  • Sonja Dünnebeil: The Lübeck Circle Society. Forms of self-portrayal of an urban upper class (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 27) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1996. ISBN 3-7950-0465-9
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 523
  • Jürgen Wiegandt: The Plescows - A contribution to the emigration of Wisby merchant families to Lubeck in the 13th and 14th centuries: (Sources and representations on Hanseatic history) 1988

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
  2. ^ Günter Kruse: The family of the Lübeck Chancellor and Mayor Albert von Bardewik: with a descent to Vladimir I. Uljanow (Lenin), in: Archive for Family History Research Volume 8 (2004), pp. 260/261
personal data
SURNAME Pleskow, Jordan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1451
Place of death Lübeck