Ludwig of Queden

Ludwig von Queden , also Ludwig Dequeden († after 1252), was a knight of the Teutonic Order .

Life

Ludwig is said to come from the lower nobility , on the one hand from Metz , according to another thesis from the Altmark family Dequede . So whether he brought the name of the Queden order castle , where he was a nurse from 1233 , to Prussia or borrowed his name from there remains a matter of dispute.

As a grizzled knight, he received the same number of votes as Heinrich von Hohenlohe when he was elected Grand Master in 1244 , but he must have given priority to him.

From 1250 to 1252 he held the office of Vice Landmaster in Prussia . As with his predecessor and successor, this was necessary because the actual Landmeister Dietrich von Grüningen was mostly at the Curia in Rome . During his term of office, besides the regulation of all kinds of internal affairs of the order, the tripartite division of Pomesania took his attention. Here, together with Bishop Ernst von Torgau, the diocese of Pomesania was established as a result of the division. He instructed the bishop of Warmia , Anselm von Meißen , to set up schools and employ teachers. He was very friendly with both bishops. His government was also mildly marked. His deputy and successor, the Order Marshal Heinrich Botel , ran the Landmeister's business while Ludwig was in Kulm or Livonia .

literature

Karl Eduard Napiersky : Index corporis historicodiplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae et Curoniae , Volume 2, Riga and Dorpat 1835, pp. 347-348
Johannes Voigt : History of Prussia from the oldest times to the fall of the rule of the Teutonic Order , Volume 3, Königsberg 1828, pp. 19-21 , 38 and 111

Individual evidence

^ Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück ( Leopold von Ledebur Berb. And Hrgb.): History of the Altmark up to the extinction of the margraves from Ballenstädtschem home , Berlin 1855, p. 309, FN 1293.
^ Karl Friedrich Pauli : General Prussian State History , Volume 4, Halle 1763, pp. 77-78.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich von Wida	Vice-Landmeister of Prussia 1250–1252	Heinrich Botel

personal data
SURNAME	Ludwig of Queden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ludwig Dequeden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Knights of the Teutonic Order
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1252

[1] Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück ( Leopold von Ledebur Berb. And Hrgb.): History of the Altmark up to the extinction of the margraves from Ballenstädtschem home , Berlin 1855, p. 309, FN 1293.

[2] Karl Friedrich Pauli : General Prussian State History , Volume 4, Halle 1763, pp. 77-78.