Siegfried von Feuchtwangen

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Siegfried von Feuchtwangen
Statue of Siegfried von Feuchtwangen on the Marienburg
Grand Master's coat of arms of Siegfried von Feuchtwangen

Siegfried von Feuchtwangen († May 3, 1311 ) was the 15th  Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from October 18, 1303 until his death.

Life

Probably from the Franconian ministerial family, with an indefinite relationship to Konrad von Feuchtwangen .

Siegfried von Feuchtwangen can be traced for the first time in 1298, already as the German Master of the Teutonic Order, he died in 1311 at the Marienburg. Siegfried von Feuchtwangen is mentioned for the first time in a certificate issued in Nuremberg on November 16, 1298. This is a matter of dispute between him, the German master of the Teutonic Order, and his friars on the one hand and Helwig von Randersacker, the master of the St. John's Order of Germany and his friars on the other.

He was Komtur of Vienna and from 1298 to 1303 German master .

He was elected Grand Master in October in the Prussian Elbing ( Polish : Elblag ) by the General Chapter after his predecessor Gottfried von Hohenlohe had to abdicate. The Order found itself in a state of internal conflict after the last bastions in the Holy Land were lost in 1291. In order to avoid a split, Siegfried immediately traveled to the headquarters of the order in Venice, where Konrad von Feuchtwangen had transferred him. In 1307 the Knights Templar was dissolved, which was also a signal to other knightly orders.

After the Kujavian Piast Duke and later King of Poland Władysław I. Ellenlang called the Order to help against the Brandenburgers who besieged Danzig, Danzig was taken over by the Teutonic Order in November 1308 because the Duke did not pay the agreed wages. From this grew the increasing enmity between the Order and Poland . In the meantime, the Grand Master had moved his headquarters to Marburg for a few months in 1309. Talks with the Duke about a sale of his claims to Pomeranians also failed, but the Margraves of Brandenburg contractually ceded their competing legal claims to Pomeranels on September 13, 1309 against payment of 10,000 silver marks.

Presumably only one day later, on the day of the Exaltation of the Cross, Siegfried moved into the Marienburg Order Castle during a general chapter . Siegfried finally relocated the headquarters of the order to the Prussian order country. The dispute over the relocation of the main house ended with the excommunication of the Grand Master and his followers by the papal legate Francesco di Moliano.

In Prussia he reorganized the administrative structure and codified Prussian law ("40 Article Law").

He died in 1311 and was buried in the Kulmsee Cathedral (Polish: Chełmża ).

The figure of Siegfried von Feuchtwangen was often distorted by Polish historians and disfigured in the blackest colors as that of a cruel tyrant.

Monuments

literature

Web links

Commons : Siegfried von Feuchtwangen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried von Feuchtwangen in the German biography
  2. ↑ The Lords of Feuchtwangen. Retrieved March 7, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Siegfried Komturzeit in Austria. Retrieved March 7, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Siegfried von Feuchtwangen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1311