Rutger of Brugesia

Rutger von Bruggenei († around 1404 ) was a priest of the Teutonic Order and Bishop of Courland .

Coming from the family of the Lords of Brüggenei, who were based near Bochum, nothing is known about his career. After the death of Bishop Otto von Kurland , he was provided with the diocese of Kurland in 1399 at the instigation of his relative, the Livonian landmaster Wennemar von Bruggenei. On June 2, 1399, through a certain Johannes Hilferi, who had tried in vain for the diocese of Breslau, he obliged himself to pay the servitia . On the same day and on June 5, 1399, the former General Procurator of the Teutonic Order, Johann vom Felde, made the payments to the curia on behalf of the company. Probably at the same time Rutger was at the court of Grand Master Konrad von Jungingen , who was in Marienburg. In any case, from here he rode to Konigsberg with an official of the Grand Master at the end of 1399. Previously, like his predecessors, he was likely to have received the habit of the order. From Königsberg he then rode to his diocese, accompanied by 60 men.

Mentioned for the last time on June 5, 1406, neither the exact date of his death nor his grave are known.

See also

• Diocese of Courland
• List of bishops of the Teutonic Order

literature

• Jan-Erik Beuttel: Rutger von Brüggenei (OT) († 1404?). 1399-1404? Bishop of Courland. In: Erwin Gatz (ed.), With the assistance of Clemens Brodkorb: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448. A biographical encyclopedia. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , p. 318.

predecessor	Office	successor
Otto	Bishop of Courland 1399–1404?	Gottschalk Schutte