Alexander Bellendörfer

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Alexander Bellendörfer (middle figure) next to Chancellor and Bishop Matthias von Rammung (back figure). From the Electoral Palatinate Fief Book of 1471
Gravestone in the Peterskirche Heidelberg

Alexander Bellendörfer , also Bellendorfer (* 1436 ; † 23 July 1512 ) was Chancellor and Protonotary of the Electoral Palatinate .

family

He was born the son of the Palatinate Chancellor and Protonotary (1447) Andreas Bellendörfer and his wife Agnes von Albich, daughter of Philipp von Albich called von Dexheim. Alexander Bellendörfer enrolled at the University of Heidelberg in 1450, together with his brothers Johannes and Andreas . The brother Andreas Bellendörfer later appears as dean of St. Cyriakus Stift Worms-Neuhausen (1489–1492), Johannes Bellendörfer from 1467 as canon at the Liebfrauenstift Neustadt .

Live and act

Like his father, Alexander Bellendörfer was in the service of the Palatinate electors. Even under Friedrich I he worked as a secret clerk at the court and, together with Matthias von Kemnat , supported Michael Beheim in writing his rhyming chronicle of the Palatinate ruler. Beheim expressly names both helpers at the end of the work (p. 205); it is also assumed that Alexander Bellendörfer wrote down the codex and handed down his handwriting to it. Bellendörfer was probably in a special relationship of trust with Elector Friedrich, since he appointed him in 1474 as one of the guardians of his son Ludwig of Bavaria . That year he was already a protonotary.

On March 16, 1485, Alexander Bellendörfer, as Chancellor and protonotary of Elector Philip , laid the foundation stone for the new Gothic building of St. Peter's Church in Heidelberg .

He died on July 23, 1512 and was buried in this church. Here he received a large epitaph with his kneeling full figure, elegantly dressed and with barking dogs as a speaking coat of arms . It is the oldest gravestone preserved in St. Peter's Church and is inscribed:

“ In the year of the Lord 1512, on Friday the 23rd day of July, the honorable and distinguished Alexander Bellendörfer, the Palatinate Protonotarius, died, whose body rests here in the place he has chosen for him, so that God may be gracious to his soul. "

- Ingrid Schoberth: Religious learning with the early Middle Ages: dealing with history using the example of Lorsch Monastery, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, p. 169

Bellendörffer was married to Katharina geb. Hart, daughter of the Palatinate Landschreiber Conrad Hart called Heyden. They lived in an estate in Edingen that his wife had brought into the marriage. His son of the same name studied at the University of Bologna and died there at a young age.

Their descendants later appear as barons von Bellendorffer and von Pellendorffer and were still based on the Edingen estate until the middle of the 18th century.

According to the historian Konrad Krimm , Alexander Bellendörfer is on the fiefdom of the Electoral Palatinate fief book from 1471, next to the Chancellor and Speyer Bishop Matthias von Rammung .

literature

  • Communications from the Central Commission for Monument Preservation in Vienna , Volume 15, 1889, p. 30; (Detail scan)
  • Ingrid Schoberth: Religious learning with the early Middle Ages: dealing with history using the example of Lorsch Abbey , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, p. 169, ISBN 3525701500 ; (Digital scan)
  • Hermann Wirth: Archive for the History of the City of Heidelberg , 1868, Volume 1, p. 16, Heidelberg, 1868; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Heidelberg History Association (see under "Protonotarius") ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Announcements of the Historisches Verein der Pfalz , annual volume 1922, p. 259
  3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 1, 1859, p. 41; (Digital scan)
  4. ↑ Archive for Middle Rhine Church History , Volume 51, 1999, p. 101
  5. ^ Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1386–1651, Springer-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 3642561896 , p. 293; (Digital scan)
  6. ↑ Hans von Zwiedineck-Südhorst: Journal for general history, culture, literature and art history , Volume 2, 1885, p. 194; (Detail scan)
  7. ↑ Adelheid Schlott-Schwab: My whole wealth is my song , 2001, p. 134; (Detail scan)
  8. ↑ PDF document from the University of Heidelberg on the Palatinate rhyming chronicle by Michael Beheim
  9. ^ Johann Friederich Reiger: Erased Chur-Pfaltz-Simmerische Stamms-Linie , Frankfurt am Main, 1735, p. 16; (Digital scan)
  10. ^ Website of the Heidelberg History Association
  11. ↑ Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine , Volume 24, 1872, pp. 281 and 282; (Digital scan)
  12. Jump up ↑ Konrad Krimm : A lair of the same size as a king: The fief book of Count Palatine Frederick I and his miniatures , lecture, 2000; (Digital view)
personal data
SURNAME Bellendörfer, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellendorfer, Alexander; Bellendorffer, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Palatinate Chancellor and Protonotary
DATE OF BIRTH 1436
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1512