Otto Mörner

Otto Mörner (around 1350) was court judge at Neumark .

Life

He was a brother of the clergyman Dietrich Mörner and the bailiffs Reineke Mörner and Heinrich Mörner . Like the latter, he distinguished himself in the war against the false Woldemar and received in November 1348 together with his brothers as well as Johann von Wedel , Henning von Uchtenhagen and Arnold (II) von Uchtenhagen the district bailiwick in the area of ​​the localities Königsberg , Soldin , Schönfließ , Lippehne , Bärwalde and Mohrin . He exercised Vogei until Ruleke von Liebenthal was appointed his successor by Margrave Ludwig the Roman in 1352.

1349 enfeoffed Margrave Ludwig the Elder Otto Mörner together with his brothers with the villages of Ortwig, Mädewitz near Wriezen, Neutrebbin in the Oderbruch and Kriescht in the Land of Sternberg . At the end of his reign in Neumark, he gave them and their cousins ​​full control over these localities as well as Klossow, Mohrin, Stolzendorf, Berneuchen and Oderberg. At times he was given the coin in the Neumark, which he settled in Mohrin . Since 1354 he was a member of the Neumark Council of Elders and in 1355 served as kitchen master at the court of Ludwig the Roman. Between 1369 and 1373 he was court judge in Neumark.

In Stolzendorf bei Mohrin , he built Stolzenburg Castle under Margrave Otto VIII, together with his brother Reineke and Henning Plötze, Henning Güstebiese and a member of the Elsholt family. After his death, the death of his brother Dietrich and the transfer of the Mark to Emperor Charles IV, the Mörner lost their high position in the New Mark nobility, withdrew to their estates in the Oderbruch and since then have hardly appeared politically.

literature

• Christian Gahlbeck : On the origin and composition of the Neumark nobility up to the middle of the 14th century. In: Klaus Neitmann (Hrsg.), Sovereign, nobility and cities in the medieval and early modern Neumark. , Berlin 2015, 115–181.