Thomas von Wickede (1566–1626)
Thomas von Wickede (* 1566 ; † March 30, 1626 ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .
Life
Thomas von Wickede was the son of Lübeck councilor Johann von Wickede († 1577) . From 1586 he studied at the University of Wittenberg . In 1589 he became a member of the newly founded patrician circle society in Lübeck. The Lübeck council elected him councilor of the city in 1593. As a diplomat he represented the city in 1596 as a member of the embassy for the coronation of King Christian IV of Denmark in Copenhagen. In 1615 he brokered a comparison between the Hanseatic city of Braunschweig and Duke Friedrich Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in the ongoing dispute over the independence of the city of Braunschweig.
He lived in the courtyard at St.-Annen-Straße 13 in Lübeck ; the site is now built over with the Lübeck synagogue . In 1584 Thomas von Wickede acquired Gut Kastorf for the von Wickede family at a price of 19,000 marks Lübisch .
Wickede's first marriage was to a daughter of councilor Joachim Lüneburg . In his second marriage he married the widow of Georg Wibbeking, daughter of Anton Meyer. The mayor of Lübeck Gottschalk von Wickede was his son. His daughter Elsabe (* 1603; † February 17, 1662) married the syndic Joachim Carstens .
literature
- Emil F. Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie from the beginnings of the city to the present (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Volume 7, 1, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, No. 713.
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Wickede, Thomas von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1566 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1626 |