Agneta Willeken
Agneta Willeken (* 1497 in Hamburg, † before 1562 in Hamburg) was the mistress of the Lübeck City captain Marx Meyer.
Life
She was the daughter of a wealthy brewer Peter Hamburger Radkens and wife of Iceland driver Hans Willeken (or Wilken ). When her husband had financially ruined in 1527 left the city ( he died in 1535 in Lübeck), gave them their daughters to be educated to her sister and began an affair with the handsome blacksmith Marx Meyer. His military career, he probably owes its ambition. Even the Knight chain, which he was awarded by Henry VIII, he gave her. Although they did not follow him to Lübeck, they influenced him, and through him the political decisions of the Lübeck Mayor Jürgen Wullenwever. Witness in the below mentioned process to give her at least indirectly to blame for the war against Holstein Lübeck.
When in 1534 the Count feud broke out, she came to her lover in the Kay of the Rantzau detached Trittau and helped himself abundantly to the left-behind clothes and jewelry the wife of Rantzau. From then on she was behaving like a princess. After Marx Meyer, however, was in 1536 set in Scania, hit her in Hamburg against contempt. Especially the fact that it is in a letter she sent in August 1535 to the besieged in Varberg Marx Meyer, as " right main church " next to the " chapels ", his Lübeck wife and his many lovers named, made her brought much ridicule one, because the Danish king, who had intercepted the letter, let reproduce and publish it. Since only one of these copies is preserved, but not the original letter of Agneta Willeken, can only speculate to what extent the letter was supplemented by defamatory passages. Agneta Willeken tried to keep through a relationship with the England driver and alderman Joachim Wullenwever, the brother of the now deposed mayor of Lübeck. This ratio promoted the suspicion - imprisoned in addition to the defense of his now in Rotenburg ( Wümme) brother - of treason Joachim Smudge Wevers at the hometown and led in 1536 to his expulsion from the Council. He died impoverished in 1558 in Malmö.
In addition to the intercepted by the Danes letter in which she recommended her lover, zuzuschanzen the castle to the English king, the detailed records of a multi-year process at the Imperial Chamber Court in Speyer are obtained from 1548 on. The Agneta Willeken widow decries against Mayor and Council of the City of Hamburg for libel. Ten years earlier, their adolescent daughters of a festival that the city in honor of a visit of King Christian III. were from Denmark, have been referred. In addition, we had them over her by the dress code for civil daughters - probably derived from the holdings of Trittauer Rantzaus - removed jewelry. This would shame both girls as well as the applicant's own good chances of marriage deprived ( both were married at the time of the action (!) ). It therefore asked 24,000 guilders compensation, which is roughly the equivalent to what took the city in a year. That they went to court after such a long time, was the fact that she had previously tried unsuccessfully to obtain by means of the troopers Hans kopeck and even Duke Albrecht of Mecklenburg satisfaction. Hans kopeck, who had married Agneta Willekens older daughter, Hamburg had declared the feud, but had been executed after several years as the robber. The trial took place in 1583 his degree, when the city was ordered to pay a compensation of 1,000 guilders for wrongful insult to the two girls. The money was shared by the descendants of the now deceased daughters.