Seger from Gardelegen

Seger von Gardelegen († after 1329 ) was provost of the Stendal collegiate monastery from 1312 to 1329 and protonotary of the Mark Brandenburg from 1324 to 1328.

Life

Seger came from the von Gardelegen family in Altmark, which had appeared in margravial documents since the 12th century.

In 1308 he was mentioned for the first time as chaplain to Margraves Otto and Waldemar of Brandenburg . From 1312 he was provost of the collegiate monastery in Stendal . Seger often stayed at the court of Margrave Waldemar and appeared almost 30 times as a witness in his documents until his death in 1319. Seger donated an altar in St. Stephen's Church in Tangermünde for the salvation of the deceased and then stayed with his widow Agnes.

In January 1324 he was already referred to as use schriver in the first document of the new Margrave Ludwig von Wittelsbach in Stendal and since then he has worked for him as protonotary and chaplain. In the years that followed, Seger was witness to his documents about 50 times. After the change of guardian for the still underage margrave in 1328, he lost his position as Protonotarius. He was mentioned for the last time in 1329 when he and the city of Stendal received the margravial house in Arneburg from Ludwig for 800 pieces of Brandenburg silver as pledge.

literature

• Christian Popp: The collegiate monastery St. Nikolaus in Stendal. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2007. p. 231 (pdf)