Nikolaus von Gützkow

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Nikolaus von Gützkow († 1322 ) was a count of Gützkow .

Coat of arms of Count Bernhard and (or) Nikolaus von Gützkow in Stralsund from 1317

Life

Detlev Schwennicke gives the year 1304 for Nikolaus, which at least cannot be traced back to the documents printed in the Pomeranian or Mecklenburg document book.

Johannes Hoffmann, on the other hand, first recognizes Count Nikolaus in the documentary witness and Canon of Cammin , who appeared as Nicolaus de Gutzecowe on April 11, 1308, when Bishop Heinrich von Cammin transferred various possessions to the Cammin cathedral chapter. Dominus Nicolaus comes de Gutzecowe appeared again as the canon there on February 2, 1313, and Nicolaus comes de Gutcecowe on February 3, 1313 as a documentary witness.

On June 23, 1313 and June 25, 1313 he appeared as a documentary witness in Altdamm in property and border matters between Duke Otto I of Pomerania-Stettin and the Gobelenhagen monastery as a documentary witness. The Duke referred to him in both documents as cognatus (cousin).

Nevertheless, in 1315, Nikolaus and his relative, Count Bernhard von Gützkow, sided with Witzlaw von Rügen in the North German Margrave War and in 1317 was also one of the signatories of the Templin Peace . When peace was made, the two counts were partisans of Eric of Denmark .

Despite this past opposition of the Counts of Gützkow to their liege lords , soon after the peace agreement there was already greater harmony with the ducal house. Nikolaus appeared three times as a documentary witness for Wartislaw IV. Von Pommern-Wolgast in June 1319, whereby there were protective alliances with Greifswald and Anklam against his brother Duke Otto I, who had fled to Margrave Waldemar von Brandenburg .

On December 5, 1319 Nikolaus was even appointed by Duke Wartislaw IV. On the occasion of a peace alliance with Greifswald, Demmin and Anklam for the land between Swine and Peene and the county of Gützkow as chief judge of a district court against muggers in the Peene area. On this occasion Nicholas was once again referred to as a cousin by the Duke.

On April 21, 1320, Counts Johann, Nikolaus and Johann von Gützkow left half of the village of Hanshagen to members of the Greifswald bourgeois family von Krebsow for 640 Marks Wendisch , along with the two Untermühlen, 15 Landhufen and some cottages to cover the debt of their recently deceased cousin Count Bernhard von Gützkow.

Two further documents were issued or attested to in 1320 by Count Nikolaus and Johann von Gützkow for land transfers to Weitenhagen and Dietrichshagen to the Eldena monastery .

There is little consensus on research on family integration. First, Nicholas was the son of Jaczos III. and a Werleschen princess, granddaughter Nikolaus von Werle , after whom he is said to have got his name. Accordingly, he should also be a brother of Bernhard. At least the latter is refuted by the document of April 21, 1320 (see above). Hoffmann then superficially beats him as the son of Jaczo II and Cecislawa von Putbus , brother of Jaczo III. and Bernhard's uncle. At the same time, however, he admits that Nicholas could also belong to another line of the counts. In view of the few sources, there were also indications for this assumption. So it is not surprising that Nikolaus was finally expelled as the son of Konrad von Gützkow and a daughter of Prince Nikolaus von Werle, as well as the cousin of Jaczo II. A wife or children of Nicholas are not known.

Nikolaus died in 1322, at least on that point the historians involved agree.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables , Volume III, Part I, Verlag Vittorio Klostermann , Frankfurt am Main 1984, Table 7A
  2. ^ A b c d Johannes Hoffmann: Studies on the history of the counts of Gützkow. Dissertation, University of Greifswald 1946
  3. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 4, Section 1, Winter 1903, Year 1208, No. 2399
  4. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 1, Heinemann 1903, Year 1313, No. 2773
  5. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 1, Heinemann 1903, Year 1313, No. 2775
  6. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 1, Heinemann 1903, Year 1313, No. 2809
  7. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 1, Heinemann 1903, Year 1313, No. 2811
  8. ^ Karl Friedrich von Klöden : Diplomatic history of the Margrave Waldemar von Brandenburg, from the years 1295-1323. Volume 2, Berlin 1844, pp. 205, 278
  9. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 2, Heinemann 1905, Year 1317, No. 3149
  10. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 2, Heinemann 1905, Year 1317, No. 3150
  11. ↑ a b c d Theodor Pyl :  Jaczo von Salzwedel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 633-636.
  12. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 2, Heinemann 1905, Year 1319, No. 3270
  13. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 2, Heinemann 1905, Year 1319, No. 3271
  14. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 2, Heinemann 1905, Year 1319, No. 3274
  15. ^ Rudolf Benl: Beginnings and Development of the Estates in Late Medieval Pomerania. In: The beginnings of the corporate representations in Prussia and its neighboring countries. Oldenbourg 1992, pp. 124-125
  16. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 2, Heinemann 1905, Year 1319, No. 3311
  17. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 2, Heinemann 1905, Year 1319, No. 3356
  18. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 2, Heinemann 1905, Year 1320, No. 3436
  19. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 5, Section 2, Heinemann 1905, Year 1320, No. 3437
personal data
SURNAME Nikolaus von Gützkow
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gützkow, Nicolaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count von Gützkow, Canon of Cammin
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1322