Landmeister of Prussia was a high office in the Teutonic Order. The Landmeister administered the land of Prussia of the Teutonic Order. It was in existence as a separate office from 1230 to 1309, later being held in union with the office of Grand Master until 1525.[1]
History
The office was created at the same time as the beginning of the conquest and the forcible Christianization of the Prussians in the summer of 1230. The first Landmeister, Hermann von Balk, received the Kulmer Land from the Duke Konrad I of Masovia as the nucleus of the Teutonic Orders in Prussia and started advancing north along the Vistula river.[2] His successors completed the conquest of the country under considerable setbacks and established the protection of the districts and the defeat of rebellious Prussians in fortified houses, the forerunners of the later brick fortresses known as Ordensburgs. The last Landmeister of Prussia residing in Elbing was Heinrich von Plötzke. In 1309, after the death of Plötzke, the office became held in union with that of the Grand Master (held by Siegfried von Feuchtwangen residing in Marburg Castle at the time) and continued as such until 1525.[3]
List
The Landmeisters of Prussia were:[4][5]
- Hermann Balk, 1230–1239
- Heinrich von Wida, 1239–1244
- Poppo von Osterna, 1244–1246
- Dietrich von Grüningen, 1246–1249
- ?
- Burkhard von Hornhausen, 1257–1259
- Hartmund von Grumbach, 1259–1261
- Helmerich von Rechenberg, 1262–1263
- Ludwig von Baldersheim, 1263–1269
- ?
- Dietrich von Gattersleben, 1271–1273
- Konrad von Thierberg the Elder, 1273–1279
- Konrad von Feuchtwangen, 1279–1280
- Mangold von Sternberg, 1280–1283
- Konrad von Thierberg the Younger, 1284–1288
- Meinhard von Querfurt, 1288–1299
- Konrad von Babenberg, 1299
- Ludwig von Schippen, 1299–1300
- Helwig von Goldbach, 1300–1302
- Konrad Sack, 1302–1306
- Siegfried von Schwarzburg, 1306
- Heinrich von Plötzke, 1307–1309
- ?
- Friedrich von Wildenberg, 1317–1324
See also
References
- ^ "Landmeister von Preussen". www.damian-hungs.de (in German). 2019. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
- ^ Zimmerling, Dieter (1988). Der Deutsche Ritterorden [The Teutonic Order of Knights] (in German). Düsseldorf: ECON Verlag. p. 111. ISBN 9783430199599.
- ^ Sonthofen, Wolfgang (1995). Der Deutsche Orden : 800 Jahre Geschichte [The Teutonic Order : 800 year history] (in German). Augsburg: Weltbild. p. 83. ISBN 9783893507139.
- ^ Napiersky, Karl Eduard (1835). Index corporis historico-diplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae, Curoniae oder, Kurzer auszug aus derjenigen Urkunden-Sammlung, welche für die Geschichte und das alte Staatsrecht Liv-, Ehst- und Kurland's ... (in German). Vol. 2. Gedruckt bei Wilh. [Wilhelm] Ferd. [Ferdinand] Häcker. Riga und Dorpat: Eduard Frantzen's Buchhandlung. p. 348. OCLC 682190905.
- ^ Voigt, Johannes (1843). Namen-codex der deutschen Ordens-Beamten, Hochmeister, Landmeister, Grossgebietiger, Komthure, Vögte, Pfleger, Hochmeister-Kompane, Kreuzfahrer und Söldner-Hauptleute in Preussen (in German). Königsberg: In commission bei den Gebrüdern Bornträger. pp. 3–4. OCLC 680508125.
Further reading
- Hirsch, Theodor; Toeppen, Max; Strehlke, Ernst (1861–1874). Scriptores rerum Prussicarum : die Geschichtsquellen der preußischen Vorzeit bis zum Untergange der Ordensherrschaft [Scriptores rerum Prussicarum : the historical sources of Prussian prehistory up to the fall of the order's rule] (in German). Vol. 1–5. Leipzig: S. Hirzel Verlag.
- Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens [Sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order]
- Boockmann, Hartmut (1994). Der Deutsche Orden : zwölf Kapitel aus seiner Geschichte [The Teutonic Order : twelve chapters from its history] (in German). München: Beck. ISBN 9783406381744.
- Das Ordensbuch: die Regeln und Statuten des Ordens der Brüder und Schwestern vom Deutschen Haus Sankt Mariens in Jerusalem [The order book: the rules and statutes of the Order of Brothers and Sisters of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem] (in German). Wien: Verlag des Deutschen Ordens. 2001. ISBN 9788870733136.
- Maschke, Erich (1942). Der deutsche Ordensstaat : Gestalten seiner groβen Meister [The state of the Teutonic Order : profiles of its great masters] (in German). Hamburg: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt. OCLC 492127526.
- Jürgen Sarnowsky
- Sarnowsky, Jürgen (2007). Der Deutsche Orden [The Teutonic Order] (in German). München: Beck. ISBN 9783406536281.
- Hermann Schreiber
- Schreiber, Hermann (2003). Preussen und Baltikum unter den Kreuzrittern : die Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens [Prussia and the Baltic under the Crusaders : the history of the Teutonic Order] (in German). Gernsbach: Casimir Katz. ISBN 9783925825835. OCLC 51984600.
- Ziegler, Uwe (2003). Kreuz und Schwert : die Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens [Cross and sword : the history of the Teutonic Order] (in German). Köln: Böhlau. ISBN 9783412134020.
External links
- Landmeister von Preußen at the Wayback Machine (archived 2021-11-28) (in German)
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