Wilhelm of Calven

Wilhelm von Calven († December 28, 1465 in Lübeck ) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

biography

Calven was the son of Lübeck councilor Reyner von Calven . He and his father left the city in 1408 as a member of the old council. The father represented the interests of the old council against the new council, including before the Reichshofgericht in Heidelberg.

Wilhelm von Calven himself became a councilor in 1433, like his father before, and then in 1441 one of the city's mayors. It was mainly used in foreign affairs. The year he was elected mayor, he was the city's envoy in Copenhagen. Mediation between King Eric of Denmark and King Christoph III. from Denmark led him to the island of Gotland in 1443 , where Erich had retired. In 1444 he negotiated with the Dutch in Kampen about a peace treaty, and in 1447 again in Copenhagen about complaints from merchants ( Bergenfahrer ) based in Bergen on the Deutsche Brücke . The legal position of the merchants of the Hanseatic League and the Hanseatic cities in Flanders Bruges was there in the autumn of 1447 until the spring of 1448 the subject of negotiations, the year 1449 led Calven for talks Lauenburg and in 1450 he was together with the alderman Jacob Bramstede in the negotiations of the Münzrezesses involved . In 1451 the Hanseatic League in Utrecht renewed negotiations about the pile in Bruges and with English envoys. In 1459 he took part in the peace negotiations between Denmark and Poland in Lübeck and in 1460 he and his son-in-law Johann Westphal and Johann Lüneburg negotiated for the last time in Segeberg for Lübeck with King Christian I of Denmark, who, with the help of the estates, was Duke of Schleswig and Count from Holstein . In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

Like his father, Wilhelm von Calven was a member of the circle society . The Vorrade chapel in the St. Aegidien church passed to him in 1441 as the grandson of Dietrich Vorrades and has since been named after him, as has the patronage of two vicarages in this chapel. The chapel fell back to the Aegidiengemeinde in 1790 because it was wrongly assumed in Lübeck that the von Kalben noble family had died out. The grave slab of Wilhelm von Calven with the family coat of arms has been erected in the north aisle of the Aegidienkirche since 1893. In the upper corners it shows the coats of arms of his parents, Councilor Reyner von Calven and Margarethe Schepenstede, and below the two coats of arms of his wives Anna von Sode and Kunigunde von Attendorn. In the middle of the plate is the mayor's coat of arms. The Latin transcription of the plate reads:

"Anno domini MCCCLXV in the innocentii obiit Dominus Wilhelmus de Caluen, Proconsul lubecensis qui hic requiescit cum duabus suis uxoribus scilicet Anneken et Kunnehen et filio suo Wilhelmus."

On the inside of the inscriptions is the later grave inscription of his son, the Lübeck councilor Heinrich von Calven († 1504).

He lived on the Brömserhof property at Schildstrasse 12.

literature

• Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, pp. 465–466; Pp. 525 ff. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
• Heinrich Detloff von Kalben : Lübeck councilors from Märkisches nobility. In: Der Wagen 1966, pp. 42–47 (p. 45 ff.)
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 517.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
2. ↑ Figure in HDvKalben, p. 47