Nicholas of Stiten

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Seal of Nicholas v. Stieten (around 1408)

Nikolaus von Stiten († March 15, 1427 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Nikolaus von Stiten was the first Lübeck councilor from the noble Lübeck patrician family von Stiten . Even before his election to the City Council in 1402, he represented the interests of Lübeck merchants in negotiations with the Bishop Jacob of Lund because of the publication of flotsam of damaged Lübeck merchant ships. In 1403 and 1406 he traveled to Livonia as an envoy from Lübeck . In 1407 he was Lübeck's representative at the Hanseatic Congress . In the course of the unrest in Lübeck in 1408, he left the city with other members of the Old Council and took them to court against the New Council at the Reich Court Court in Heidelberg. His property in Lübeck was confiscated by the New Council. In 1411 he represented the interests of the old council at the Hansekontor in Bruges and in 1416 was involved in the settlement negotiations between the old and the new council at King Erik VII of Denmark in Copenhagen . As a result, he resumed his council mandate with the other surviving members of the Old Council in 1416 and represented the Hanseatic cities again in an embassy in Bruges in 1417 and the interests of Lübeck for nine Hanseatic days from 1416 to 1422. 1422 he negotiated in connection with the Treaty of Perleberg with the Hamburg Council on the Vierlande and was 1422 to 1426 the first of the two municipal magistrate in Riepenburg . In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

Family and property

Nikolaus von Stiten was married to the widow Abele von Essende, a daughter of the Lübeck councilor Gerhard Tusfeld . He owned the village of Klinkrade in Lauenburg. From 1395 he lived in the house at Breite Straße 47 and was a member of the circle society . He was buried in the castle church ; his grave slab is described in the literature, but no longer preserved.

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 439
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 503-504 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
personal data
SURNAME Stiten, Nikolaus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1427
Place of death Lübeck