Kersten Miles

Kersten Miles at the Kersten Miles Bridge in Hamburg (Landungsbrücken)

Kersten Miles (* around 1340 in Hamburg ; † 1420 there ) became a Hamburg councilor in 1374 and was Hamburg mayor from 1378 to 1420 .

Life

Miles was a son of the Hamburg councilor Christianus Miles († 1369). The Mayor of Hamburg Johannes Miles († 1360) was his grandfather. Kersten Miles was married to a woman named Hezeke for the second time and to a woman named Grete for the third time. He had their daughter Ida with Hezeke, and their daughter Hezeke with Grete. Both daughters were nuns in the Harvestehude monastery and received a pension from their father. The son Christianus Miles († 1426) became a Hamburg councilor in 1420.

The Kersten-Miles-Brücke in Hamburg, the Kersten-Miles-Straße in Cuxhaven and a large number of ships and boats are named after Kerstin Miles .

Create

Kersten Miles was a contemporary of Störtebeker and was involved in his execution. Legend has it that Störtebeker was promised by Kersten Miles that all those men would survive whom he was still able to pass after he was beheaded. The beheaded man walked past eleven men before the executioner threw the executioner's block at his feet (according to some sources, he tripped him). However, after the pirate fell, the mayor broke his promise and all 73 pirates were beheaded.

During Miles' tenure in 1410, the Hamburg citizen Hein Brand was arrested on the instigation of Duke Johann von Sachsen-Lauenburg for insulting, but had to be released again due to procedural errors. The circumstances of this illegal arrest were one of the triggers for the adoption of the first constitution of the city of Hamburg .

literature

• Johann Paul Finke : Message from the old Hamburg family of those Miles. Congratulations to Lucas von Spreckelsen on becoming mayor . Nicolaus Conrad Wörmer, Hamburg 1750, OCLC 838278452 ( digitized from the website of the Berlin State Library [accessed on December 16, 2014]).

Web links

Commons : Kersten Miles  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silke Urbanski : History of the Harvestehude Monastery - "In valle virginum": economic, social and political development of a nunnery near Hamburg 1245–1530. Publication of the Hamburg working group for regional history, p. 242.
2. ^ Rudolf Nehlsen: Hamburg history according to sources and documents . tape 1 . Lafrentz, Hamburg 1896, p. 168-170 .
3. ^ Hans Schröder : Finke (Johann Paul) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 2 , no. 1025 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1854, OCLC 165098713 ( facsimile on the pages of the State and University Library Hamburg [accessed on December 16, 2014]). Facsimile] on the pages of the [[Hamburg State and University Library] ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.