Reimar von Güntersberg

Reimar von Güntersberg († 1418 ) was master master of the Brandenburg Balley of the Order of St. John from 1399 to 1418 .

Life

Reimar von Güntersberg was an early representative of the noble family of Güntersberg . Initially as a lay brother in the order, he took up the post of master master after the violent death of his predecessor Detlev von Walmede in 1399. One of his first official acts was then also the atonement of the slain predecessor and the commander, who was also put to death on the same incident . Also in 1400, on the occasion of a contract between the Himmelpfort monastery and the Lychen parish , he called himself a common bidder in Saxony , the Mark , in Wendland and in Pomerania . The house church of his order was in Advertising . Several times he performed official business such as the acceptance of leases and the pledging of shares. In 1405 Duke Bogislaw donated the village of Neuen Wotzau to the master master. In 1407 he approved five altar and vicarage foundations in Königsberg . In 1409 he took the castle of Zantoch from Margrave Jost as a pledge. In 1411 Reimar went to Ofen to pay homage to the emperor. Siegmund , however, dismissed the Brandenburg representatives after receiving their homage and referred the master master to Friedrich von Nürnberg as the new sovereign. In the troubled times that followed, the Johanniter under Reimar von Güntersberg stood faithfully at the Margrave's side. In 1411 he had to defend himself against the accusation of Heinrich von Plauen , the Grand Commander of the Teutonic Order , that he was keeping his servants prisoner on Zantoch. In 1412 he again approved the erection of an altar in Königsberg. In 1416 the master master was reconciled with the Pomeranian dukes Casimir and Otto , with whom he had previously got into disputes. He must have died a little later, as Busso V. von Alvensleben succeeded him as master master in 1419.

Since he himself was a layperson and not a priest, Kaspar von Güntersberg , who was master master at the Sonnenburg from 1471 to 1474, could have been a direct descendant of Reimar .

literature

• Reimar von Zadow: Early history of the families v. Güntersberg and v. Zadow. 1983, Part I, pp. 67-68
• Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld : History of the knightly order St. Johannis from Spital zu Jerusalem. Berlin 1859, pp. 685-688

predecessor	Office	successor
Detlev von Walmede	Master of the Balley Brandenburg of the Order of St. John 1399-1418	Busso V. von Alvensleben