Wilke Steding

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Wilke Steding (* around 1500; † 1570 at Gut Stedingsmühlen near Molbergen ) was a mercenary in the service of the diocese of Münster and Drost of the diocese in Cloppenburg and Vechta .

Life

Steding came from the old Westphalian noble family Steding in the Oldenburger Münsterland , more precisely in the area of ​​Cloppenburg. His father was Johann Steding, his mother presumably a born von Smerten ( Schmertheim ). Steding is first mentioned in a document in 1533 when he was serving as field captain and mercenary leader in the service of the bishop of Münster, Franz von Waldeck . In this position, which required military experience and a corresponding professional career, Steding was deployed as the leader of the episcopal mercenaries during the siege of the Anabaptist-ruled Munster in 1534/35. He also played a leading role in the conquest of the city on June 24th and 25th, 1535.

Apparently as a Landsknechtsführer, he supported Franz von Waldeck with 1100 gold gulden in 1534 and was assured of the current income from the Wildeshausen castle and office . In 1536 he was also used as a Drost for the Münster diocese in Delmenhorst . At that time, the city ​​and its castle were endangered by the claims of the Counts of Oldenburg.

In preparation for the defense and on the orders of the bishop, Steding had the Hude monastery, which was only occupied by a few monks and located in the border area of ​​the Delmenhortisch-Münster area, demolished in 1536 . In May 1538, Count Christoph von Oldenburg attacked the city, but was unable to conquer the castle that Steding was defending. It was only when Count Anton I von Oldenburg attacked the town and castle in 1547 that Steding could no longer hold out.

Steding had already become Drost in Cloppenburg in 1537 and was also Drost in Vechta from 1541 to 1543 and from 1546 to 1549. As early as 1540 he had given the Wildeshausen castle and office to another incumbent. In 1549 he finally gave up his positions in Cloppenburg and Vechta and retired to his estate at Stedingsmühlen.

Gut Stedingsmühlen today

family

Steding was married to Anna von Oeynhausen zu Eichholz. From this connection came his heir, the son Heinrich Steding (* 1520; † 1602). From his second marriage to the bourgeois Anna Wittrock, a bourgeois branch emerged from which several clergymen and ministerials came from.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Graf von Oeynhausen: History of the family of Oeynhausen . Third part: Biographical treatment, ed. v. Grotefend, Frankfurt a. M. 1889, pp. 301-302.
  2. ^ Peter Sieve: The trial of the estate of the Knight of the Teutonic Order Heinrich Steding. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch, Vol. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Steding, Wilke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mercenaries and Drost at Vechta
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1570
Place of death Gut Stedingsmühlen near Molbergen