Keckhans of Gemmingen
Hans der Kecke , also Keckhans von Gemmingen (* 1431 in Heilbronn ; † September 28, 1487 in Germersheim ), came from the family of the Lords of Gemmingen and founded the Gemmingen-Michelfeld line . He was in the service of the Electorate of the Palatinate and captured the opposing military leader Count Ulrich V of Württemberg during the Battle of Seckenheim in 1462 .
Life
Hans der Kecke was born in 1431 as the son of Eberhard the Tauben († 1479) and Barbara von Neipperg. Around 1455 he married Brigida von Neuenstein zu Michelfeld. This marriage gave birth to 21 children, of which seven died before baptism and only ten reached adulthood. The family chronicle shows him to be a useful man and a brave knight, which also expresses his nickname "the perky", which he is said to have received as a squire at the Heidelberg court. In 1458 he first appeared as a master builder of Aries , which had been completely destroyed by previous war events. In 1460 he bought one sixth of Michelfeld from his father-in-law, Götz von Neuenstein , for 300 guilders.
On the orders of Elector Friedrich the Victorious , in 1460 he moved with 1000 men in front of the Leining village of Dörrenbach and destroyed it. He beat the aid for the village from Bergzabern and also destroyed the village of Langenkandel . On behalf of the Elector, he sent Duke Ludwig von Veldenz a feud and in 1460 conquered Minfeld Castle, which belonged to half of Leiningen and half of Veldenz . 1462 he was in Billigheim besieged by Ludwig von Veldenz and attacked. But he was able to hold the place and beat the attackers. In the same year he bought Weiler Castle from Simon von Neudeck and Anna von Gertingen.
After the Battle of Seckenheim , which was victorious for the elector in 1462, in which he took part with five horses and his brother with three horses, the elector Friedrich the Victorious invited the imprisoned lords and lords and his bravest knights to dinner, including Hans von Gemmingen. Here the opposing military leader, Count Ulrich V von Württemberg, spoke full of praise for the bravery of the knight, who had given him so much in the battle that he had to give himself up and asked who he was. Thereupon a knight stood up and declared that he was the same, whereupon Hans quietly went away and returned with the gloves and the mace of the general that he took from him when he was captured. The other knight is said to have left ashamed. As a result, some of Gemmingen succeeded in filling high offices in the empire through protection from the Electorate of the Palatinate.
In 1465 he became a bailiff in Germersheim , which was fortified at that time by Count Palatine Friedrich. The tower in Germersheim from 1468 shows the coat of arms of the Count Palatine and that of Fauths Hans von Gemmingen. During the Weißenburg feud in 1470 he took the castle in Geispolsheim in a coup by order of the elector . Through skillful negotiations succeeded and Götz von Adelsheim on the Reichstag to Speyer , the fine imposed Elector Friedrich imperial ban ineffective will be. In the same year he bought another third of Michelfeld from Wendel von Neuperg and Barbara von Bubenhofen for 500 guilders. In 1471 Hans was in charge of the Palatinate artillery.
His father had already divided his property between Hans and his brother Eberhard († 1501) during his lifetime . Spiritual careers were planned for the remaining brothers. Since the brother Reinhard († 1483), who was canon in Mainz in 1452, left the clergy again, protracted disputes about the inheritance began around 1470, which continued after the father's death in 1479.
In 1473 he received 20 malter grain and 1 load of wine from the Speyer bishop Matthias von Rammung as the castle armrest of Lauterburg . Abbot Johann von Seltz gave him the pastorey Dürrenbach as a fief. In 1477 he received from Abbot Heinrich von Weißenburg "his Marschalthurm and its affiliation to the fiefdom". In 1481 he leased the Freihof in Michelfeld to Peter Jäger. In 1486 he acquired the wine press of Abbot Christoph von Odenheim and in 1487 the "Palatinate third part to Michelfeld with bailiwicks, rights, Gülten, people, together with 30 guilders annual valid at cheap home" for 1200 guilders.
He died on September 28, 1487 in Germersheim and was buried in the monastery church there, where his wife had already been buried in 1479.
progeny
Hans von Gemmingen married Brigitta von Neuenstein around 1455. They had 21 children, only ten of whom survived childhood. Except for the son Orendel, who succeeded the father as bailiff in Germersheim and landlord in Michelfeld, a spiritual career was planned for all descendants.
Progeny:
- Georg (1458–1511), canon in Worms and Speyer and vicar general of the Prince Diocese of Speyer
- Hans (* 1459), monk in the Hördt monastery near Germersheim
- Ennel (Anna) (1462 – after 1480)
- Orendel (1464–1520), continued the Gemmingen-Michelfeld line, was Vogt in Germersheim and from 1499 chambermaster of the Electoral Palatinate, later senior bailiff of the offices of Miltenberg, Tauberbischofsheim, Külsheim, Buchen and Königsheim
- Els (1466–1532), nun, prioress of the Magdalenenkloster Speyer from 1504 until death
- Barbel (1467–1511), nun in Worms
- Uriel (1468–1514), Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mainz from 1508 to 1514
- Erpho (1469–1523), provost in the St. Guido monastery in Speyer, from 1510 provost in the monastery in Odenheim and later cathedral provost and archdeacon in Speyer
literature
- Gemmingensches studbook and tournament book . Hornberg Castle Archive
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 207–211.
- Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen - continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 . Gemmingenscher Familienverband eV 1991
Remarks
- ↑ Stocker 1895, pp. 167/168.
- ↑ Not identified, perhaps: Dörrenbach
- ↑ Not identified, perhaps: Marshality
- ↑ Konrad von Busch , Franz Xaver Glasschröder : choir rules and younger sea book of the old Speier cathedral chapter. Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer 1923, p. 627
- ↑ Konrad von Busch , Franz Xaver Glasschröder: choir rules and younger sea book of the old Speier cathedral chapter. Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer 1923, p. 629.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gemmingen, Keckhans from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gemmingen, Hans der Kecke from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral Palatinate knight, victorious against Ulrich V of Württemberg in 1462, founder of the Michelfeld line |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1431 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1487 |
| Place of death | Germersheim |