Zurich from Stetten

Zurich von Stetten , also Zürch von Stetten or Ulrich von Stetten , († after 1330 ) was a knight and high dignitary of the Teutonic Order and from 1329 to 1330 was entrusted with the rights of the German Master of the Teutonic Order.

Stetten is from 1319 to at least 1327 as commander of the Coming Mergentheim prove.

Von Stetten appeared as a German master at a time when two other knights of the order held this title. The historian Johannes Voigt explained this fact in the 19th century with the fact that Zurich von Stetten in the Regnum Teutonicum as the universally acting deputy of the actual German master Konrad von Gundelfingen , who was staying with the emperor , as well as the new German master Wolfram von Nellenburg, who was staying at the residence of the grand master in the Teutonic state of Prussia acted. In more recent research, however, Zurich is seen by Stetten as a representative of an opposition faction within the order.

During the time in office of Stettens Heinrich von Zipplingen was appointed Landkomtur of the Deutschordensballei Franconia . This started the expansion of Mergentheim into an order town and the headquarters of the administration of the order's free float in the area of the Landballei.

An entry in the Mergentheimer Jahrzeitbuch shows that Zurich von Stetten was a Landkomtur of Austria after 1330 ; there is no other documentary evidence of this as such. The document in which a Zurich from Stetten is named as a German master as early as 1290 is a forgery; at that time he was probably still of secular class.

literature

Bernhard Klebes: The Teutonic Order in the Mergentheim region in the Middle Ages. Coming, city and territorial rule (1219/20 - approx. 1525). Elwert, Marburg 2002 ( Sources and Studies on the History of the Teutonic Order 58), ISBN 3-7708-1219-0
Wolfgang Sonthofen: The German Order. Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-713-2
Johannes Voigt : History of Prussia from the oldest times to the fall of the rule of the Teutonic Order . Volume 4: The time from the subjugation of Prussia in 1283 to Dieterich von Altenburg's death in 1341 . Königsberg 1830, online
Johannes Voigt: History of the Teutonic Knight Order in its twelve balles in Germany . Volume 1, Berlin 1857 (reprint Neustadt an der Aisch 1991)
Dieter J. Weiss: The history of the Deutschordens-Ballei Franconia in the Middle Ages . Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1991 ( Publications of the Society for Franconian History . 9th series, representations from Franconian history 39), ISBN 3-7686-9111-X

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Sonthofen: The German Order . Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-713-2 , p. 214.
^ Bernhard Klebes: The Teutonic Order in the Mergentheim region in the Middle Ages. Coming, city and territorial rule (1219/20 - approx. 1525) . Marburg 2002, p. 195
↑ Johannes Voigt: History of Prussia from the oldest times to the fall of the rule of the Teutonic Order. Volume 4: The time from the subjugation of Prussia in 1283 to Dieterich von Altenburg's death in 1341. Königsberg 1830, p. 447 .
↑ Dieter J. Weiss: The history of the Deutschordens-Ballei Franconia in the Middle Ages . Neustadt an der Aisch 1991, pp. 168–170; Bernhard Klebes: The Teutonic Order in the Mergentheim region in the Middle Ages. Coming, city and territorial rule (1219/20 - approx. 1525). Marburg 2002, pp. 195-196; so already Julius von Pflugk-Harttung : The Johanniter- and the German Order in the battle between Ludwig of Bavaria and the Curia. Leipzig 1900, pp. 112-113.
^ Bernhard Klebes: The Teutonic Order in the Mergentheim region in the Middle Ages. Coming, city and territorial rule (1219/20 - approx. 1525). Marburg 2002, pp. 196-197.
^ Karl H. Lampe: The emergence of the German Order Coming Procelts. In: Wertheimer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Volks- und Heimatkunde des Main-Tauberlandes 1955 (1956), pp. 39–45, here pp. 40–41 with reference to Wirtembergisches Urkundenbuch . Volume IX, no. 3973. Stuttgart 1907, p. 356 ( digitized , online edition ) and Wirtembergisches Urkundenbuch . Volume X, No. 4230. Stuttgart 1909, p. 28 f. ( Digitized version , online edition ).

personal data
SURNAME	Zurich from Stetten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zürch von Stetten; Ulrich von Stetten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Order knight, German master
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1330

[1] Wolfgang Sonthofen: The German Order . Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-713-2 , p. 214.

[2] Bernhard Klebes: The Teutonic Order in the Mergentheim region in the Middle Ages. Coming, city and territorial rule (1219/20 - approx. 1525) . Marburg 2002, p. 195

[3] Johannes Voigt: History of Prussia from the oldest times to the fall of the rule of the Teutonic Order. Volume 4: The time from the subjugation of Prussia in 1283 to Dieterich von Altenburg's death in 1341. Königsberg 1830, p. 447 .

[4] Dieter J. Weiss: The history of the Deutschordens-Ballei Franconia in the Middle Ages . Neustadt an der Aisch 1991, pp. 168–170; Bernhard Klebes: The Teutonic Order in the Mergentheim region in the Middle Ages. Coming, city and territorial rule (1219/20 - approx. 1525). Marburg 2002, pp. 195-196; so already Julius von Pflugk-Harttung : The Johanniter- and the German Order in the battle between Ludwig of Bavaria and the Curia. Leipzig 1900, pp. 112-113.

[5] Bernhard Klebes: The Teutonic Order in the Mergentheim region in the Middle Ages. Coming, city and territorial rule (1219/20 - approx. 1525). Marburg 2002, pp. 196-197.

[6] Karl H. Lampe: The emergence of the German Order Coming Procelts. In: Wertheimer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Volks- und Heimatkunde des Main-Tauberlandes 1955 (1956), pp. 39–45, here pp. 40–41 with reference to Wirtembergisches Urkundenbuch . Volume IX, no. 3973. Stuttgart 1907, p. 356 ( digitized , online edition ) and Wirtembergisches Urkundenbuch . Volume X, No. 4230. Stuttgart 1909, p. 28 f. ( Digitized version , online edition ).