Meindert van Ham
Meinhart of Hamme (also: My Rich, Meinert of Ham) was a German Landsknecht leader and is one of the few whose names are known poet of a Landsknecht song.
Life
While the money Rischen feud he came in 1531 he. Bernhard of Hackfurt to East Frisia Karl von Geldern has sent him and 14 troop in support of his newest allies Balthasar von Esen to East Friesland.
As on October 24, 1531 former Danish King Christian II embarked from Medemblik to Denmark, he was there. The expedition was aborted but by a storm to Norway. The troops besieged in vain as the Akershus Fortress in Christiana, but they could conquer the Olufsburg in Viken, and pursued the Sweden over the ice to Nylöse in Gothenburg ( now part " Gamlestaden " ), where Meinhart was involved. In 1532, he was betrayed and brought to a Danish ship. After Christian's arrest, he finds himself in Ostfriesland again. In October 1533 Guelders troops march back to East Friesland. Enno II tried in vain to stop them at the Battle of Jemgum ( 1533); Meinhart is violated. The troops plunder idle and around and pull up to the castle Greetsiel where they besiege with Balthasar from the beginning of 1535 the castle of Enno II. On January 21, 1535, the crew obtained under Albert of Bakemoor. In May 1536, he deposited in Appingedam, but can not win ( he gets here the nickname pint - Koning ) Groningen. At the same time Christian III concluded. by His Messenger Melchior Ranzau an alliance with Charles of money. In the same year the imperial governor of Friesland George Schenck of Tautenburg got the order to expel Meinhart of Hamme. In Westerwolde battle was fought and Meinhart of Hamme was captured. So its troops to fight in 1536 under Johann Rantzau on the Weser against Eberhard Ovelacker.
During the Third Money Rischen War of Succession he commanded in March 1543 Money Generic crew of Sittard.
It is believed that he was in 1547 one of the sponsors for Kuyper of Cleve, who operated before Jemgum and Emden with his mercenaries.
Meinhart of Hamme was an avid poet, one of his songs can be found in Liliencron, another has made it into the Antwerp Songbook of 1544: De sang us dit never ledlin, Meinert vam Hamme is he genant, De heft even want to sing; He drinkt vel lever the Rinschen Kolden win as ' t water fountain ut the.