Johann IV ( - ) - the son of Duke Erich IV of Saxe-Lauenburg ; Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1401-1412, co-regent of his father and older brother Erich V.
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| Mother | Sofia Braunschweig-Luneburg |
Biography
When Erich III of Saxe-Bergedorf-Mölnsky died in 1401, Johann's father, Erich IV , inherited part of the duchy of the deceased. However, most of the territories were inaccessible, since Erich III laid them to the city of Lübeck in 1370 [1] .
Erich III authorized Lübeck to own these territories after his death until his heirs bought them for a total of 26 thousand Lübeck marks. In 1401, Erich IV, with the support of his sons Erich V and Johann IV, by force captured the pledged territories without any payment, and Lubeck had to cede [2] .
Johann had debts to the burghers of Hamburg . During his visit to the Hamburg Senate (city government), his creditor Hein Brandes made a complaint to the insolvent Duke in an offensive manner to Johann, which the latter complained to the Senate [3] . The Senate called Brandes, who admitted the claim, and arrested him. This caused discontent among the residents of Hamburg, and they elected 12 representatives from each of the four parishes at that time, the Council of Forty-eight, who on the day of St. Lawrence (August 10) deprived the Senate of the privilege of arresting anyone without a preliminary trial [4] . In 1687, the enlarged Council of the Sixty turned into the first permanent mission of citizens of Hamburg, the core of the Hamburg Parliament [4] .
His brother Erich V removed Johann IV after their father, Erich IV, died in 1412. Johann IV died in 1414 without leaving an heir.
Genealogy
Notes
- ↑ Elisabeth Raiser, Städtische Territorialpolitik im Mittelalter: eine vergleichende Untersuchung ihrer verschiedenen Formen am Beispiel Lübecks und Zürichs , Lübeck and Hamburg: Matthiesen, 1969, (Historische Studien; 406), p. 90, simultaneously: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1969.
- ↑ Elisabeth Raiser, Städtische Territorialpolitik im Mittelalter: eine vergleichende Untersuchung ihrer verschiedenen Formen am Beispiel Lübecks und Zürichs , Lübeck and Hamburg: Matthiesen, 1969, (Historische Studien; 406), p. 137, simultaneously: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1969.
- ↑ Tim Albrecht and Stephan Michaelsen, Entwicklung des Hamburger Stadtrechts Archived December 21, 2013 to Wayback Machine , note 36, retrieved on May 14, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Tim Albrecht and Stephan Michaelsen, Entwicklung des Hamburger Stadtrechts Archived December 21, 2013 at Wayback Machine , retrieved on May 14, 2013.