Achilles Christoph of Gemmingen

Achilles Christoph von Gemmingen (born November 19, 1619 - † August 3, 1676 in Presteneck ) was the landlord in Bürg .

Life

Achilles came from the Bürg-Presteneck branch of the Barons of Gemmingen and was a son of the Würzburg bailiff Eberhard von Gemmingen († 1635) and Maria Agatha von Venningen. His godfather was Duke Friedrich Achilles von Württemberg-Neuenstadt . He entered the imperial military service, but already retired from the military as a lieutenant due to injury. After the Thirty Years' War he was busy rebuilding his estates. In his property register he wrote that Burg Castle had been burned down in 1646, of his 476 acres of property he had 257 acres rebuilt, the rest was in ruins. He died in Presteneck in 1676 and was buried in the church in Bürg.

family

From 1643 he was married to Benedicta Elisabetha Greck von Kochendorf . After her death in 1648, he married Sibylla Felicitas von Gemmingen-Fürfeld in 1650, daughter of the Eschenau landlord Friedrich von Gemmingen , who died in 1654. He entered into a third marriage in 1655 with Amalie von Mentzingen. The three marriages resulted in 18 children, but only a few of them reached adulthood.

Progeny:

• Hans Gottlieb (before 1649–1691), Kurmainz forest clerk, took possession of Bürg in 1690
• Clara Sibylla ∞ Johann Reinhard von Gemmingen -Widdern
• Maria Elisabeth ∞ Ludwig von Weiler
• Johann Bernhard (1656–1723), chief steward of the Margraves of Baden-Durlach
• Eberhard (1674–1741), Obervogt zu Balingen and Oberhofmeister of the Württemberg duchess Johanna Elisabeth
• Sophie Margaretha ∞ Friedrich von Gemmingen-Maienfels

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 200f.