Tile Kolup ("† 7. July 1285 in Wetzlar), also admit as Dietrich Holzschuh, be a Hochstapler, which itself for the dead emperor Friedrich II. spend.

Tile Kolup used the people faith in the return of the emperor and raised 1284 in Cologne the requirement, it is in reality rex Fridericus for the first time. Here it was abandoned however the of the people, dipped into a Kloake and hunted from the city.

The cheat, who issued IITH own documents with a falsified seal Friedrichs, found strong support in Neuss - good over one year -. It held there yard, received high gentlemen and for Legaten, bishops and princes, spent documents and confirmed privileges (e.g. the to meals). The legal king Rudolf of having castle, skillfully to whose opponent Kolup followed, besieged this city in vain.

In the summer 1285 Tile Kolup pulled after Wetzlar and kept yard there formal, whereby the origin of the funds necessary for it is unclear. It lent even privileges under royal seal.

When king Rudolf of having castle before Wetzlar stored, the Wetzlarer Tile Kolup arrest and delivered it to the legal king. That let it burn there on 7 July 1285 as Ketzer.

Tile Kolup and other "wrong Friedriche" took advantage of the popular faith, that Stauferherr are not at all dead in reality.

Literature

• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Bd. 3, frame 1036-1037
• Meyer, Victor: Tile Kolup, the wrong Friedrich and the Wiederkunft of a Friedrich, emperor of the Germans: a study. - Wetzlar: Meyer, 1868
• Tilman: Like a lamb under lions: Novel. - Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei 2000. - ISBN 3-404-14431-7 (belletrist. Biography)

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