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, at which 71 other brothers of the Order and the Danish master Eilart (Eilardus) Hoberg were also killed.

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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