Ernst von Ratzeburg

Ernst von Ratzeburg or Rassburg (died 5 March 1279) was a member of the Livonian Order. He acted as its Master from 1273 until his death at the Battle of Aizkraukle in 1279,^[1] at which he was one of 71 members of the Order to die.

References

^ Murray, Alan V. (5 July 2017). Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150–1500. Taylor & Francis. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-351-94715-2.

Sources

(in German) Ritterbrüder im livländischen Zweig des Deutschen Ordens. Köln: Böhlau, 1993. Nr. 695 (lk 524–525).
(in German) Theodor Hirsch, Max Töppen, Ernst Strehlke: Scriptores Rerum Prussicarum: Die Geschichtsquellen der Preussischen Vorzeit bis zum Untergange der Ordensherrschaft, Leipzig 1861, lk. 640

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[1] Murray, Alan V. (5 July 2017). Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150–1500. Taylor & Francis. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-351-94715-2.

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