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Tanne Kankena (*…; † 1461 ) was an East Frisian chief to Wittmund and (later) to Dornum . He was married to Idze, the heiress of the glory Dornum-Westerburg and von Rechten am Idzingaherd in the north .

The Hanseatic City of Hamburg occupied the Kankenaburg in Wittmund in 1400 because of the chief family's ties to piracy . Later, the people of Hamburg handed over the facility to the chief family tom Brok . The Kankena did not regain possession of the castle until 1425, when Tanne Kankena and his brothers Hedde and Here Kankena promised to keep the contracts with tom Brok. In 1427 and 1430 Tanne Kankena openly stood up for Focko Ukena and took part in the battle "on the wild fields" at Upgant against Ocko II. Tom Brok .

After the fall of Focko Ukenas in 1433, Tanne Kankena was captured in 1441–1442 and had to give up the Westerburg in Dornum inherited from his wife to Edzard Cirksena and renounce the rights to Idzingaherd in the north. In 1454 he also lost the castle in Wittmund to Sibet Attena , but in 1461 he was resigned to the Osterburg in Dornum .

Individual evidence

  1. All information can be found in: Paul Otten: Dornum in Past and Present , second, revised. Edition, Verlag SKN, Norden 1989, ISBN 3-922365-77-9 , pp. 36-41.