Eberhard von Monheim

Eberhard von Monheim (c. 1275–before 1362) was Landmeister of the Teutonic Order's Livonian branch from 1328 to 1340, and the man who brought Riga to heel. A former commander of Ventspils and Kuldīga, he took office as Livonia flared up: in 1328 the Letts burned the order's fortress at Daugavgrīva, and the Lithuanians joined the rising, raiding as far as Paistu in 1329.

After pushing them back he besieged Riga from September 1329. Severe famine struck the city, and it surrendered on 17 March 1330. He had part of its walls pulled down and began an order fortress outside the old city limits, the later Riga Castle.

A winter campaign against Lithuania failed in 1340 and he resigned in June. He later held a commandery in Cologne or Mechelen and was last recorded in 1360 as an official in Prussia.