Reyner from Calven

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Seal of Reyner of Calven around 1408

Reyner von Calven (* around 1350 in Stendal ; † September 14, 1421 in Lübeck ) was a councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Reyner von Calven came from a family of dressmakers in Stendal. Together with his brother Merse, later Mayor of Stendal, he took part in the fighting in the Deetz Landwehr in 1372 against the Harz counts. Around 1386 he settled in Lübeck as a merchant, became a citizen of the city and in 1388 married Margarethe, the daughter of Lübeck councilor Johann Schepenstede . After the death of his father-in-law, Calven came to the Groß Schenkenberg estate and half of the co-ownership in the village of Stockelsdorf through his wife's inheritance . He became a member of the circle society and in 1393 he was elected to the council of the city of Lübeck. In 1396 he was in command of the troops of the city of Lübeck in the Sate War with the dukes Bernhard I and his brother Heinrich I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. The campaign led via Bergedorf after unification with the hamburgers who had arrived there, across the Elbe and Lübeck occupied the area around Uelzen. As a result, the dukes gave in and a peace treaty that was favorable to Lübeck. In 1401 he worked in Lüneburg as an arbitrator between the salt wealthy and the council, in 1405 he was asked as an arbitrator between the Lübeck bishop and the Lübeck cathedral chapter. In 1406 he traveled to Amsterdam on a diplomatic mission as envoy of the Hanseatic cities. In 1408, as in other cities, civil unrest broke out in Lübeck, which led to the removal of the old council by a new council. Reyner von Calven took care of the interests of the old council at the court of the king in Heidelberg and at the local court . In 1416 the old order was restored by the king and the council members who were deposed by the New Council in 1408 and who were still living were reinstated. In the following years Calven took care of the city's external political relations. In 1416 he visited the Royal Danish Court and visited King Sigismund for negotiations in Constance. He also represented Lübeck at the Hanseatic Days in 1416/17 . In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

He was buried in the Katharinenkirche in Lübeck. His grave slab, reused several times, has been preserved; it lies between the second and third north pillars of the nave. His son Wilhelm von Calven also became Lübeck councilor and mayor .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Mr. Reiner von Calven (Lübsche Sage)  - sources and full texts

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
  2. ^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 814 LÜKA18
personal data
SURNAME Calven, Reyner of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1350
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1421
Place of death Lübeck