Unico Manninga

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Unico Manninga (* 1529 ; † April 28, 1588 ) was an East Frisian chief .

Tomb of Unico Manninga in the Ludgeri Church in the city of Norden

Life

Unico came from the Lütetsburg branch line of Manninga . He was born in 1529 as the youngest of 14 children of Dodo Manninga ( to Lütetsborg ) and Sophia Ripperda, probably at Lütetsburg Castle and named after Unico Ripperda († 1474), his maternal grandfather. He was the first Frisian chief to be raised to the status of imperial baron and was thus a member of imperial nobility. When Dodo Manninga died in 1533, Unico was only four years old, so that the East Frisian Count Enno II took over the guardianship . After returning from an educational trip to Italy, Unico enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in 1549 , where he came into contact with Martin Luther's sons , who gave him a copy of the New Testament with Luther's comments. From 1551 Unico studied at the law faculty of the University of Padua in Italy.

In 1553 he married Hyma Boynges and so came into possession of the glory of Goden . Hyma died in 1557 and Unico sold Gödens a year later to his brother-in-law for a payment of 11,000 guilders. With the proceeds he bought the Lütetsburg from his brother. In 1562 Unico married a second time. His bride was Adelheid von Brakel from Geldern .

In 1564 Unico was on behalf of the Count, accompanied by Wilhelm Gnapheus, as negotiator in London , where he succeeded in pulling the pile of English cloths to Emden . For this, the count appointed him his Drost in Emden in 1565 . During the Dutch uprising against Philip II , Unico granted asylum to many Dutch religious refugees in Emden, but also offered shelter to up to 30 families at his ancestral home. As a proponent of the Calvinist doctrine of faith , he was unable to bridge the growing gap between the count's house and the population on the eve of the Emden revolution , which is why he gave up the Drosten office in 1570.

In 1581 he married his only daughter Hyma to Wilhelm zu Inn- and Knyphausen. After Unico's death in 1588, Lütetsburg came into the possession of the Knyphausen family (today Counts of Innhausen and Knyphausen ), who are still the owners of Lütetsburg Castle with its park and forest. Unico Manninga found his final resting place in the St. Luderi Church here in the north, where a marble epitaph was later installed in his honor .

Services

Chief in courtly costume. Illustration from the house book of Unico Manninga begun in 1561.

As an avowed Calvinist, he brought the Reformed Church in Norden into being. Among the many religious refugees from the Netherlands that he took in Lütetsburg was Philips van Marnix , who is said to be the author of the text of the Wilhelmus , the national anthem of the Netherlands . As Drost and governor of Emden, Manninga initiated the expansion of the city and pushed ahead with the construction of the fortifications and the Emden town hall, which was destroyed in World War II. In his will in 1584 he donated a legacy in favor of the school in its glory. As a justification, Unico wrote at the time: I hear that myne Underdanen has more desire and will, teach something to honor children, tho latin, get. The Lütetsburg house book begun in 1561 by Unico is of great art historical importance . It contains chronical records, testaments, recipes and representations of clothing and jewelry of the nobles as well as the rural population of his time and is continued by his descendants to this day.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hans-Peter Glimme: The Oldersum Castle in its historical circumstances . In: Stephanie Hahn, Michael H. Sprenger: Herrschaft - Architektur - Raum: Festschrift for Ulrich Schütte on his 60th birthday . Berlin 2008. ISBN 3-86732-024-1 . Pp. 68-85
  2. ↑ Gerhard Canzler: The Knyphausen family for 400 years at Lütetsburg Castle . In: Ostfriesischer Kurier of June 4, 1988. Quoted here from: schlosspark-luetetsburg.de: Press review ( memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ Heike Düselder and Olga Sommerfeld: Nobility on the Periphery? Culture and rule of the lower nobility in northwest Germany in: Zeitblicke . Edition 3/2005. Accessed May 24, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Manninga, Unico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manninga, Unneke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Frisian chief
DATE OF BIRTH 1529
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Lütetsburg Castle
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1588