Ludwig von Hörselgau

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Ludwig von Hörselgau was Marshal of the Teutonic Order around 1215 .

He was probably a knight from the von Hörselgau family, who named themselves after Hörselgau (approx. 20 km east-south-east from Eisenach ) and belonged to the ministry of the Landgraves of Thuringia .

The Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , Hermann von Salza , had an important appointment with a notary on April 9, 1215 in Akkon , then the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem . Mathilde, the widow of Konrad von Schwarzenberg, wanted to sell her house in Acre and its accessories to the Teutonic Order before she went home. The contract partners agreed that Brother Hermann undertook to pay Mathilde von Schwarzenberg 400 silver marks on the 15th day after Whitsun 1216 in Strasbourg to purchase an item. Marshal Ludwig von Hörselgau, among others, is named as a witness of the certification.

The executive power of the Teutonic Order belonged to the Grand Master as the Superior General; This was supported by consultants and employees, the major lords. The Grand Master's next advisor was the Grand Commander. At the time of Hermann von Salza he was in charge of the main house in Akkon and represented the often absent Grand Master. In 1207/1208 a Girardus and in 1215 Drabode de Utinge are recorded as Grand Commander. In addition, there was the Marshal as a further major ruler . The entire military area of ​​the main building was under his control. In 1208 the name of the Marshal was Heinrich and in 1215 it was Ludwig von Hörselgau. After Fenske, Ludwig von Hörselgau is the second order marshal of the Teutonic Order and the first whose full name is known.

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  • Ernestus Strehlke (Ed.): Tabulae Ordinis Theutonici. 1869, document no.48.
  • Lutz Fenske: Thuringian officials of the Teutonic Order in the early days of the order's history: Ludwig von Hörselgau, Teutonic Order Marshal 1215 in Akkon. In: Michael Gockel, Volker Wahl (Hrsg.): Thuringian research. Festschrift for Hans Eberhardt on his 85th birthday on September 25, 1993. Weimar et al. 1993, pp. 63–92.
  • Otto Dobencker: Regesta diplomatica necnon epistolaria historiae Thuringiae. Volume 2: 1152-1227. Jena 1900, p. 297.