Lippold von Bredow

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Lippold von Bredow (* before 1369 , † after 1411 ) was governor or governor of the Mittelmark in the Mark Brandenburg .

Live and act

Heroic sculpture Lippold von Bredows in Siegesallee, Eugen Börmel, 1900

Lippold von Bredow's father was Jacob von Bredow. He had at least two brothers, Henning and Peter.

He served in 1369 and 1370 under the Marquis de Otto V the office of marshal . He probably acquired the Burgvogtei Neustadt an der Dosse as a pledge . According to the land book of Emperor Charles IV of 1375, the nobleman owned not only Neustadt an der Dosse but also Kremmen and had given two after-mortgages in Möthlow . In 1379 Lippold von Bredow was appointed captain of the Havelland and the Ländchen Glien . As a result, he is said to be on several campaignshave been involved. In February 1381 Lippold von Bredow was mentioned as a margrave Vogt . In 1383 or 1384 he was appointed governor of the Mittelmark. Since the princes were mostly not in Brandenburg at that time, the state governors exercised both civil and military rule instead of the princes .

According to a document dated December 1384 Lippold von Bredow led as governor of the central marrow together with the Dietrich von der Schulenburg , Bishop of Brandenburg and Wichard IV. Rochow in his role Assizes .

In 1388 Lippold von Bredow was (re-) appointed governor after Jobst von Moravia had received the Mark Brandenburg as pledge from his cousin Sigismund . He led several armed conflicts with Albrecht III. , Archbishop of Magdeburg . Two years later, a church trial was sought against him in absentia in Magdeburg. By Pope Boniface IX. the dean of the Church of St. Sebastian was appointed judge in this process .

In 1391 Lippold von Bredow was captured by the Magdeburgers when attacking the castle in Milow and held in custody until November 1396 . His release was only achieved by King Wenceslaus . For the next few years he managed his office and his property, to which the Plaue Castle belonged, relatively calmly despite feuds and robber barons. In a document from 1399 a contract between Archbishop Albrecht III. and Lippold von Bredow about the Plaue Castle and the assistance to be provided by Lippold and his friends against the Mark Brandenburg, and in the following year 1400 Lippold transferred his lands to his son-in-law Johann von Quitzow . He was married to Bredow's daughter Agnes.

In 1403 Lippold von Bredow had been excommunicated from the Augustinian monastery in Zerbst on behalf of the Archbishop of Magdeburg . For this reason, the interdict was imposed on May 5 in the cities of Brandenburg ( old town and new town ) and in the Brandenburg Cathedral .

In a document from Friedrich I from 1412, Lippold von Bredow is given as a witness .

Honors

There was a bust of Lippold von Bredows in Berlin's Siegesallee . Created by Eugen Börmel and unveiled on May 6, 1900, it stood in group 14 and flanked that of Emperor Sigismund on the right . The figures have been in the Spandau Citadel since May 2009 . The head of the statue was broken off and was reattached in 1984.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Schultze (ed.): The land book of the Mark Brandenburg from 1375 . Commission publisher von Gsellius, Berlin 1940, [Topographical Description of the Mark]. Marchia media, pp. 63-65, Kremmen: p. 64; Neustadt an der Dosse: p. 65.
  2. ↑ Johannes Schultze (ed.): The land book of the Mark Brandenburg from 1375 . Commission publisher von Gsellius, Berlin 1940, (Obule et Merice). Motelow, pp. 173-174.
  3. ↑ a b Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . Part 1, Volume 7. Pages 118 to 119.Berlin 1847.
  4. ^ Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . Chronological register for all volumes. Page 410.Berlin 1867.
  5. ^ Documents in the Brandenburg Cathedral Monastery Archive. Part 1: 948-1487. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar, ISBN 978-3-7400-1057-7 , page 279.
  6. ^ A b c Johann Samuelansch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Volume 11, page 333.
  7. ^ Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . Chronological register for all volumes. Page 430.Berlin 1867.
  8. ^ Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . Chronological register for all volumes. Page 455.Berlin 1867.
  9. ^ Documents in the Brandenburg Cathedral Monastery Archive. Part 1: 948-1487. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar, ISBN 978-3-7400-1057-7 , page 370.
  10. ^ Georg Wilhelm von Raumer : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis continuatis . Berlin, Szczecin, Elbing. 1831. Pages 145 and 146.
personal data
SURNAME Bredow, Lippold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor or governor of the Mittelmark
DATE OF BIRTH before 1369
DATE OF DEATH after 1411