Wickbert

Wickbert (Latin: Wickbertus ; † 1209 ) was a knight of the Brothers Sword Order in Livonia . He killed the first master of the order, Wenno .

Life

The Chronicle of Henry of Latvia (around 1227) and the Livonian Rhyming Chronicle (around 1270) reported about him . Accordingly, he was from Soest in Westphalia. The master of the order Wenno gave him the supervision of the Latvians at Wenden Castle . Since the knight had not fulfilled the tasks satisfactorily, he was dismissed from this position by the master. Wickbert fled to Ydumea in the area of the Bishop of Riga , but was brought back by the friars and held prisoner. After his release, he approached the master of the order on a feast day and killed him with a battle ax, as did the chaplain Johannes, who was with him. Wickbert was captured while on the run, tried, and executed by the wheel.

In the Livonian rhyming chronicle

“Dear Master Winne

to the best of your senses

put someone who was sûr,

from Sôsat a hunt gebûr

ûf that hûs zû winches,

the Latvian children

zû help and comfort.

dô redeemed the god,

that he didn't like mêr

and the country daughter,

dô he issued at work.

that what is necessary leads

and call yourself michel vice:

sîn hertze murder began.

Someday eat chess,

that he is the master in the matter

Heimelîch to a râte stân

with a pure capelân.

dô he perish,

that they did not become:

zû tôde he both slûc.

the mort was jêmerlîch enjoyment,

that in the same not forgetting

vil snelle man in dar umme vienc.

a council was set up in pînlîch ûf.

vil lutzel iemant before in bat:

that dûchte gûte was right.

Let the knight be a servant,

the gunden in des tôdes wol,

as one soles the unconcerned. "

literature

Friedrich Benninghoven : The order of the sword brothers. Fratres milicie Christi de Livonia (= East Central Europe in the past and present. Vol. 9). Böhlau, Cologne 1965, p. 422, No. 3.
Klaus Militzer, Lutz Fenske (ed.): The knight brothers in the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order . Böhlau, Cologne, Vienna 1993, p. 606, No. 821.

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Wickbert. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

↑ chap. XIII, 2, German in Eduard Pabst: Heinrich's von Lettland Livonian Chronicle . Reval 1867. pp. 112f. ; Latin original text in Leonid Arbusow and Albert Bauer (eds.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 31: Heinrichs Livländische Chronik (Heinrici Chronicon Livoniae). Hanover 1955, pp. 67–68 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
^ Eduard Meyer: The Livonian rhyming chronicle by Dietlieb v. Alnpeke. Reval 1848. pp. 20f. Z. 687-716, (standard German transmission)
↑ Original Low German version quoted from Valdis Bisenieks (ed.): Atskaņu hronika , Low German and Latvian translation, commented on by Ēvalds Mugurēvičs et al. Zinātne, Riga 1998, ISBN 5-7966-1182-8 . Z. 687-716, High German in 687-716

personal data
SURNAME	Wickbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wikbert von Soest; Wigbert; Wickbertus (Latin original spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Knight of the Brotherhood of the Sword, administrator of Wenden Castle, killed the first master of the order, Wenno
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	1209

[1] . XIII, 2, German in Eduard Pabst: Heinrich's von Lettland Livonian Chronicle . Reval 1867. pp. 112f. ; Latin original text in Leonid Arbusow and Albert Bauer (eds.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 31: Heinrichs Livländische Chronik (Heinrici Chronicon Livoniae). Hanover 1955, pp. 67–68 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )

[2] Eduard Meyer: The Livonian rhyming chronicle by Dietlieb v. Alnpeke. Reval 1848. pp. 20f. Z. 687-716, (standard German transmission)

[3] Original Low German version quoted from Valdis Bisenieks (ed.): Atskaņu hronika , Low German and Latvian translation, commented on by Ēvalds Mugurēvičs et al. Zinātne, Riga 1998, ISBN 5-7966-1182-8 . Z. 687-716, High German in 687-716