Lübeck (patrician family)

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The von Lübeck family was a patrician family resident in the Hanseatic city of Greifswald , who provided councilors and mayors there for over 200 years .

history

The family came to Greifswald from the newly founded city of Lübeck in the course of the eastern settlement run by Heinrich the Lion . First Greifswald councilor of the family was John of Lübeck I . He represented Greifswald at the first Hanseatic days of the years 1258–81 and became the progenitor of an older and a younger line of the family, which together made the town of 23 councilors up to the beginning of the 16th century.

His grandson Johann II from the older line and his cousin Walter financed the war burdens of the city from their considerable fortune in the conflict between the Hanseatic League and the Danish King Erik VI, which escalated from 1307 onwards . Menved . Walter von Lübeck became mayor of Greifswald in 1314, as did two of his sons, a grandson and a great-grandson.

Their descendants Siegfried and Heinrich von Lübeck were just as successful as their ancestors as councilors of Greifswald during the First and Second Waldemark Wars against the Danish King Waldemar IV. Atterdag . The last councilor from the family was Jakob von Lübeck IV in 1508/09 . The majority of the family's assets passed to Stralsund's mayor Nikolaus Smiterlow through marriage with Gesa von Lübeck .

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