Background
Watzenrode the Elder was born 1400 at Thorn, in the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, to a German merchant family, who had come there from Weizenrodau (earlier Wazygenrode) near Schweidnitz (Świdnica).
Watzenrode the Elder was born 1400 at Thorn, in the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, to a German merchant family, who had come there from Weizenrodau (earlier Wazygenrode) near Schweidnitz (Świdnica).
In the Thorn citizen registry, Watzenrode the Elder was registered as a landowner, businessmen, judge, councilman, et cetera, as living on Seglergasse (Sailor Lane). In 1448 he and other burghers of Thorn are recorded as having been summoned to court at Limburg. He died at his birthplace in 1462.
Christina and Tideman"s daughter Cordula von Allen married Reinhold Feldstedt, who was born 1468 in Danzig (Gdańsk) and died 1529 in Danzig.
Their daughter Katharina Feldstedt married Herman Giese, born 1523 in Danzig. A descendant was Tiedemann Giese, a famous bishop of Culm and bishop of Warmia.