Sabel Siegfried (the younger)
Sabel Siegfried , called the Younger (* 1437 in Stralsund ; † 1491 in Stralsund) was a councilor and mayor in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund.
Life
He was born the only son of the mayor Sabel Siegfried (the elder) and Margarethe Krakow; it was the third of four marriages to Sabel Siegfried the Elder. The family belonged to the influential dressmaking company .
In 1452 he enrolled at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Rostock and in 1454 passed the baccalarius exam . Heinrich Rubenow , with whom he was distantly related, advised him to continue studying, and so he studied from 1456 at the University of Greifswald, which had just been founded , where he received his master's degree in the same year . In 1458 he became dean and in 1460 an examiner . He received his doctorate in 1461 as baccalaureus in utroque iure .
He offered refuge in Stralsund to Heinrich Rubenow, who was on the run in 1457.
He obtained a doctorate in law between 1467 and 1471; The date and place of the examination are not exactly documented, in a document from Bützow from 1468 he is first mentioned as a doctor of secular law. The place of the doctorate was possibly an Italian university.
From 1466 at the latest, he worked at the University of Greifswald as a lecturer in secular and canon law . After 1468 he devoted himself exclusively to the activity in Stralsund, but was still in contact with the universities of Rostock and Greifswald; In 1479 he received 400 Sundian marks from the Rostock rector .
During the Stettin succession dispute, Sabel Siegfried worked as an expert . He served along with other lawyers the Pomeranian Dukes Erich II. And Wartislaw X. .
From January 8, 1472 (other sources mention the year 1474) he was a member of the council of the city of Stralsund. He represented the city as a messenger at Hanseatic days . He was active on negotiating trips for the city in 1474, 1475 and 1486 in Lübeck , 1475 in Lüneburg , 1480 in Barth and 1490 in Wolgast . In 1486 he came together with the Stralsund councilors Ewert Segeberg and Heinrich Hofmeister in captivity in Stargard , which was in conflict with Stralsund; he was released on payment of a ransom . He signed the peace treaty between the two cities in Stettin in December 1486 for his hometown.
On January 9, 1482 he became mayor of Stralsund. He was the executor of Stralsund's wills and worked as a provisional for the St. Nikolai Church and the Heilgeisthospital .
Possessions
Sabel Siegfried owned houses and shares in them in Stralsund and Rostock as well as goods on the island of Rügen . From 1479 he owned a quarter house on Mönchstrasse and from 1480 a booth on Schneiderstrasse. He inherited half of a booth at the Old Market . He received annual pension income from a house on Langenstrasse , from a booth on Semlower Tor and a house on Peltzerstrasse, and from a house on Rostock's Great Market. He owned the Paschen / Patzig and Klein Datzow estates.
In a will, Sabel Siegfried and his wife bequeathed parts of the lease income from the property and the like. a. in favor of foundations and the Heilgeist Hospital. Siegfried also donated funds for memorials ; he donated u. a. an eternal mass in St. Nikolai.
family
The Siegfried family was a long-established and wealthy council family of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, which had council members since the early 14th century. She belonged to the dressmaking company. Nikolaus Siegfried , the grandfather of Sabel Siegfried the Younger, was mayor and founded the Siegfrieden Vicarie.
Sabel Siegfried the Elder was married to daughters of Stralsund patrician families in each of his four marriages (Voet, von Hiddingen, Krakow and Hertegers).
An uncle Sabel Siegfried the Elder J., Magnus Siegfried, was married to a daughter of the mayor Simon von Orden . The half-sisters Sabel Siegfried d. J., Wobbeke and Taleke married into the Stralsund families of Vloten and Trittelvitz; Half-sister Margarethe was married to the councilor Heinrich Bukow for the second time.
Sabel Siegfried the Elder J. was married to Margarethe von der Molen, a councilor's daughter. He didn't have any children.
Family relationships existed through two aunts and great-niece Sabel Siegfried the Elder. J. to Greifswald to the Rubenow, Junge and Schüting families. He offered refuge in Stralsund to Heinrich Rubenow , who was on the run in 1457 .
A relative, Johann Siegfried , became rector of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague in 1394 .
literature
- Stephanie Irrgang: The Stralsund councilor and mayor Dr. Sabel Siegfried. A career in the Hanseatic region during the 15th century , in: Baltic Studies , New Series, Volume 89, Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2004, ISBN 3-933598-95-8 , pages 25-42
Web links
- Literature about Sabel Siegfried (the younger) in the state bibliography MV
- Biography of Johann Albert Dinnies in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, original in the Stralsund city archive, Hs 359
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siegfried, Sabel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, university professor and mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1437 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1491 |
| Place of death | Stralsund |