Rikolf Colyn

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Rikolf Colyn (* 14th century; † around 1400) was a lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

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Rikolf Colyn was a son, a nephew or possibly a grandson of Jakob Colyn van Herle on the market and from 1374 belonged to the aldermen of the city of Aachen .

In 1383 Colyn stood together with the stale mayors Reinhard von Moirke, the Elder and Henry van der Linden and the incumbent mayors John Pont and Gerhard Lewe, the elder before the municipal troops, with the allied troops of the city of Cologne , the troops of the Archbishop of Cologne Friedrich III. von Saar Werden as well as the troops of Duke Wilhelm II. von Jülich and Geldern belonged to the besiegers of Dyck Castle as a result of a resolution of the Maas-Rhine Peace Alliance . These accused Gerhard von Dyck of robber baronism , and after the successful capture of his castle, the troops forced him to destroy the stronghold at that time. Two years later, Rikolf Colyn was appointed rentmaster and in 1398 elected mayor of Aachen.

After a last entry about Colyn's activity as a lay judge was found in the Aachen City Archives on August 19, 1400 , he must obviously have died a short time later. Rikolf Colyn was married twice and had several children. As early as 1377, he waived his long-term lease on the Kulprie mill in Burtscheid for himself and his family in favor of the abbess of Burtscheid's imperial abbey . Rikolf's sister Catharina married the long-time mayor and owner of the Schurzelter mill, Johann von Pont .

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SURNAME Colyn, Rikolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aldermen and mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH around 1400