Pleskow (Lübeck council family)

The German merchant family of the Pleskow produced in the Hanseatic cities Visby and Lübeck in the 13th – 15th centuries. Century councilors and mayors for generations. In Lübeck they were councilors from 1299 to 1451. As patricians of the imperial city, the Pleskows belonged to the circle society after the reconstitution of 1429 .

coat of arms

Seal of Jordan Pleskow

The coat of arms is usually described after a seal of Jordan Pleskow on a document from 1408: In a quatrefoil composed of four circular arcs and four points, a small shield with a protruding head with points upwards leans on both sides, including a six-petalled rose. Above the shield the helmet with a crown and leaves on the tips of stems in place of the helmet cover. The crest is apparently a sideways-looking bearded head, which is also known as a Russian head . The coat of arms suggests an origin of the family in the (in German) named Russian city of Pleskau ( Pskow ).

Known family members

Hinrich Pleskow line

• Jacov Plescov
  • Johannes Pleskow (* Visby, around 1205–1265), councilor in Visby
    • Henrik Pleskow (around 1230–1292), councilor and mayor of Visby
      • Johann Pleskow I (* between 1260 and 1280; † 1325), citizen of Lübeck
        • Johann Pleskow II (* (before) 1308; † 1367), councilor in Lübeck
      • Arnold Pleskow I (between 1270 and 1280; † 1327), councilor in Visby
        • Bernhard Pleskow († 1368) , councilor in Lübeck
      • Hinrich Pleskow († 1340) I (* around 1260 in Visby; † 1340), was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck since 1320
        • Hinrich Pleskow († 1358) II (* before 1292, at the latest before 1308; † 1358), was councilor from 1348 and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck around 1357
          • Bernhard Pleskow († 1412) , councilor in Lübeck
        • Arnold Pleskow II (* no later than 1317; † 1363), councilor in Lübeck
          • Jordan Pleskow († 1425), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
            • Jordan Pleskow (councilor) († 1451), councilor in Lübeck, member of the circle society, victim of the plague

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• • • • Jacob Pleskow (around 1265–1327), councilor in Visby
        • Johannes Pleskow (approx. 1290–1339), councilor in Visby
          • Jakob Pleskow (* around 1330; † 1381), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
            • • Godeke Pleskow (1371–1451), councilor in Lübeck since 1433, member of the circle society
      • Arnold Pleskow I (between 1270 and 1280; † 1327), councilor in Visby
    • Markward Pleskow (around 1240–1305 / 10), councilor in Visby

Further

see list of members of the circle society

Monuments

The coat of arms of the mayor and head of the Marienkirche Jakob Pleskow († 1381) hung on the inside of the third northern choir pillar of the church. Two more Pleskow shields, at least those of Mayor Jordan Pleskow († 1425) and Councilor Gottfried Pleskow († 1451), hung on the north side of the first south pillar, where Jacob von Melle still recorded them. They were probably removed in the late 18th century, as was the gravestone of Mayor Jakob Pleskow († 1483) in the chancel. The numerous other grave slabs of the Pleskow family in the Lübeck churches are partially described, but not preserved.

literature

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925
• Ahasver von Brandt : Spirit and politics in the history of Lübeck , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1954
• Philippe Dollinger : Die Hanse , Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-520-37102-2
• Jürgen Wiegandt: The Plescows - A contribution to the emigration of Wisby merchant families to Lubeck in the 13th and 14th centuries: (Sources and representations on Hanseatic history) 1988

Web links

Commons : Pleskow family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rådslängd för Visby 1161-1600 (Swedish) (PDF; 5.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seal of the Middle Ages from the archives of the city of Lübeck. Edited by the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology, Issue 10, p. 87; Plate 15, 94
2. ↑ Wiegandt: The Plescows , pp 135-139
3. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 361; Wiegandt: The Plescows , pp. 140–192
4. ↑ Wiegandt: The Plescows , pp 88-113
5. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 358; (wrong?) son of no. 294; Wiegandt: The Plescows , pp. 113-134
6. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 294; Wiegandt: The Plescows , pp. 32–55
7. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 362; Wiegandt: The Plescows , pp. 56–75
8. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 431
9. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 383; Wiegandt: The Plescows , pp. 75–88
10. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 523
11. ↑ Wiegandt: The Plescows , pp 193-257
12. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 518
13. ↑ Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 336.387
14. ↑ See Pleskow in the person index with Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1100–1600). (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 40). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, p. 1188 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X . (see also: Univ., Diss., Kiel 1993)