Ludwig von Landsee
Ludwig von inland lake (also of Lanse , ext 2 June 1414;. Died 1451) was a knight and diplomat in the German order of knights , who as Gebietiger, diplomat and Großgebietiger worked.
Ludwig von Landsee came from a Swabian noble family and thus from an area that was one of the main recruiting areas for the Teutonic Knights. From one of his later communications it emerges that he was first house commander in Ragnit an der Memel , today's Neman ( Russian: Неман) in Russia. From June 2, 1414, Landsee was Komtur in Nessau ( Polish: Nieszawa ), which is located on the left bank of the Vistula opposite Thorn (Polish: Toruń ). With the commander of the neighboring Kommende Thorn, Johann von Selbach, he agreed on March 24, 1415 about Razianz (PolishRaciąż , today German Harnau) signed a trade agreement with two representatives of the Kingdom of Poland , his first proven assignment as a diplomat.
In the following two years, Landsee was repeatedly employed by Grand Master Michael Küchmeister as a diplomat in the ongoing conflict with Poland and Lithuania. Landsee, since June 1416 Komtur von Thorn, together with the order stressler (finance master) Heinrich von Nickeritz, handed over the ratification document of the Grand Master for the armistice, which had been negotiated in May 1416, to the opposing party. When this armistice with the Polish and Lithuanian rulers was extended in April 1418, the Thorner Komtur in Jung Leslau (Hohensalza) and Brest (Kujawien) belonged to the Grand Master's negotiating commission for the second time. For a meeting with the bishop of Leslau (today Włocławek ), John I of Opole , at the beginning of July 1417, the Grand Master had his confidante receive the bishop and escort him to Graudenz. In June 1418 Ludwig von Landsee was authorized by Grand Master Michael Küchmeister to hand over the three Kujavian villages Orlau ( Orlová ), Morin ( Murzynno ) and Neuendorf to the representatives of the German King who had mediated between the Order and Poland. With his appointment as Commander of Brandenburg on September 8, 1418, his previous diplomatic work for the order, which he had carried out from Thorn in the Polish border area, initially almost completely ceased.
Because of the ongoing disputes with Poland and Lithuania, Landsee resumed diplomatic activities. In the spring of 1420 the Grand Master Michael Küchmeister sent him together with the Landkomtur von Biesen , Iwan von Cortenbach, to the King Sigismund of Luxembourg . In January 1420 he had made an arbitration decision on the disputes between the Order and the Kingdom of Poland and the Greater Lithuania. Two years later, under the new Grand Master Paul von Rusdorf , Landsee was sent again to the court of King Sigismund. The Grand Master instructed his envoy to discuss an alliance against Poland with the king. In the same year, at the Reichstag in Nuremberg in 1422, Landsee represented the interests of the order together with the German master Eberhard von Saunsheim . With the support of King Sigismund, the two succeeded in winning high and low imperial princes for the Teutonic Order against Poland.
On November 18, 1422 Ludwig von Landsee was appointed Order Marshal of the Teutonic Order ( Summus Marescalcus ). As one of the five major territorial authorities of the order, he also became Komtur von Königsberg . Equipped with the new rank, he continued the diplomatic mission against Poland. Landsee negotiated in Pressburg in the second half of December 1422 on behalf of the Grand Master with King Sigismund, the Silesian princes, bishops and cities a formal alliance of the Teutonic Order against Poland. Although the king was considering a war, he wanted to try to find a compromise first.
A few months after these advances in the matter against Poland, the situation suddenly looked completely different for the Order: at the end of March 1423 the Order Marshal in Käsmark had to witness how King Sigismund abandoned the Order of Teutonic Knights. The Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło had assured Sigismund of his support against the Hussites . As a result, Landsee left for Prussia without having achieved anything. Arrived there on April 10, 1423, he informed Grand Master Paul von Rusdorf that the ratification of the Melno-See Peace Treaty could no longer be avoided. This took place shortly afterwards on May 18, 1423 at a meeting between Grand Master Paul von Rusdorf and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania , with the participation of the Order Marshal.
Ludwig von Landsee gave up the office of Order Marshal on October 25, 1424 to Walrabe von Hunsbach. After that, Landsee appeared in 1425 and 1428 as the keeper of Bütow, that is, significantly lower ranking and possibly not even seamless, so that he might even have remained without a territorial office for a year. "His official career had suffered a break".
After being downgraded in October 1424, Landsee had to wait until 1437 to get back into a management position. As land commander of the Deutschordensballei Alsace-Burgundy , Ludwig von Landsee had his seat in Castle Beuggen , where Burkhard von Schellenberg had been in charge of the local commander since 1432. On the occasion of structural changes to the “Old Castle”, the two rulers had their coats of arms after that of the order affixed in a cartouche made of red sandstone above the portal, which is dated to 1438.
In December 1439, Ludwig von Landsee, as Provincial of the Deutschordensballlei Alsace-Burgundy, accompanied the armed men under the leadership of Count Johann II von Thierstein , who were taking part in the delegation of the Council from Basel to Ripaille on Lake Geneva, around Duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy from his Election to report as Pope by the Basel Council. The mayor of Basel , Arnold III, was also part of this train . von Bärenfels with an entourage as impressive as that of a bishop and the dreaded nobleman Wilhelm von Grünenberg .
literature
- Max Bruchet: Le Château de Ripaille . Librairie Charles Delagrave, Paris 1907, p. 111 (gallicalabs.bnf.fr digitized version [accessed September 4, 2015]).
- Klaus Neitmann : Ludwig von Landsee. An officer of the Teutonic Order in Prussia in the 15th century. Observations on the foreign policy of the order . In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe . New series, vol. 36, no. 2 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1988, ISSN 0021-4019 , p. 161-190 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landsee, Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lanse, Ludwig von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Land Commander of the Teutonic Order of Alsace-Burgundy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swabia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1451 |