Werner von Tettingen

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Coat of arms of the von Tettingen family

Werner von Tettingen , also written Tettlingen (* around 1350; † 1413 in Thorn ), was a knight and large area of the Teutonic Order .

origin

Werner came from an old aristocratic family from Hegau with its seat a. a. in Dettingen . Presumably he was the son of Burkard von Tettingen and his wife Fidanne, daughter of the knight Gottfried Mueller of Zurich. After the death of her husband, Fidanne was the prioress of the Oetenbach monastery .

Career in the Teutonic Order

Nothing is known about the early years and his rise in the Teutonic Order. In the years 1384 to 1387 Werner v. T. Komtur von Balga as well as from 1387 to 1390 Supreme Trappier of the order. Werner v. T. held the office of Commander of Christburg from 1390 to 1392 and subsequently the office of Marshal of the Order until 1404 and in 1407 after the death of Grand Master Konrad von Jungingen the important office of governor of the Grand Master . After his resignation as marshal due to illness, he became Komtur von Elbing and at the same time Großspittler . In his capacity as governor of the Grand Master, Tettingen favored the brother of the late Konrad von Jungingen, Ulrich , for the exercise of this office.

In the battle of Tannenberg in 1410, the elderly Werner von Tettingen commanded the commandments of the Commandery and the city of Elbing. As the only major area of ​​the order, he managed to escape from the battlefield near Tannenberg. Due to his old age, he was no longer available for the vacant grand master's office, so he proposed the energetic defender of the Marienburg , Heinrich von Plauen , previously Komtur von Schwetz , for the office of grand master.

After he was elected Grand Master, Werner von Tettingen took part in various diplomatic negotiations with the Kingdom of Poland on behalf of Heinrich von Plauen , during which he died in Thorn in the summer of 1413.

literature

Contemporary chronicles

Source editions

Monographs

  • Walter Markov and Heinz Helmert: Battles of world history ; Leipzig. Edition, 1983.
  • Wolfgang Sonthofen: The German Order ; Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-713-2

Fiction

Remarks

  1. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knoblich: Badisches sex book. Volume I, page 215
  2. ↑ a b Theodor Hirsch, Max Toeppen, Ernst Strehlke: Scriptores rerum Prussicarum. The historical sources of Prussian prehistoric times up to the fall of the order ; Volume 3, p. 164
  3. ↑ According to other sources (cf. Kindler von Knobloch), Werner vT was 1386-1387 Compan of the Grand Master of Marienburg, 1387-1390 Comthur zu Reden, 1390 zu Christburg, 1390-1392 Oberster Trapier, 1392-1404 Oberster Marshal and 1404-1412 Supreme Spittler.
  4. ^ [1] Evidence in the Prussian regests
  5. ↑ Description of the flags and also of the war events of 1410/11, around 1448. A conditionally timely representation of the events; the record was not made until 38 years later after oral tradition from a participant in the battle. Despite various heraldic errors in the descriptions of the individual banners (flags) , it is precisely the merit of this work to have passed down a description of the banners used in battle in the form of images up to our time
  6. ^ Ernst Wichert : Heinrich von Plauen in the Gutenberg-DE project
personal data
SURNAME Werner von Tettingen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Großspittler and Order Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH around 1350
DATE OF DEATH 1413
Place of death Thorn , Poland