Anna of Gemmingen

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Epitaph of her first husband Jacob von Praunheim -Bommersheim with his and her portrait (central part) in the Catholic parish church of Mariä Himmelfahrt & Peter and Paul in Großwallstadt

Anna von Gemmingen (* around 1517, † May 21, 1577 in Großwallstadt ) came from the Velscher branch of the Barons of Gemmingen . She was the last living member of the branch and, as the heir to the Heidelberg Fauth Hans von Gemmingen († 1552), owned property in Heidelberg , Stebbach , Hilsbach . Via the inheritance of her first husband, the Hanau bailiff Jacob von Praunheim-Bommersheim († 1560), she came to further property in Großwallstadt, Umstadt and other places. Most of her property came to her second husband, the Aschaffenburg Vizdom Melchior von Grorodt. The ornate epitaph for her and her first husband has been preserved in the parish church of Großwallstadt, a statue of her second husband in the collegiate church in Aschaffenburg.

Life

She was one of three daughters of the Heidelberger Fauth Hans von Gemmingen. However, her sisters Ursula and Margaretha had died before her father's death, so that she was the only surviving descendant when his father died. As early as 1523, the father had asked Count Palatine Ludwig V to convert his Stebbach man fief into an inheritance , since he only had daughters. Later, the father also had various possessions belonging to his nephew Philipp, known as "der Grünewald", who had died at a young age. Anna therefore inherited a house and goods in Hilsbach, a house in Heidelberg ( Gemminger Hof ) and half of the village of Stebbach.

Bronze relief by Melchior von Graenroth, Anna's 2nd husband, electoral councilor and vicdom in Aschaffenburg, bronze plaque with relief of the crucifixion, ancestral specimen on the side; in the essay the family coat of arms flanked by Putten. Under the relief master inscription : HERONYMVS. HACK. GOSS. ME. ANNO. DOMINI. 1584

She was married to the Hanau bailiff Jacob von Praunheim ( Praunheim ) zu Ostheim since 1528 and lived with him in the castle estate in Großwallstadt. After his death in 1560 she inherited the castle in Großwallstadt, the praunheimisch Neustätter Hof (today in Obernburg am Main ), the Gans'schen Adelshof in Umstadt and other property. After the death of her first husband, with whom she had two daughters, she entered into a second marriage with Melchior von Grorodt (also Groroth, Gräroth), electoral councilor Vizdom in Aschaffenburg.

She died in 1577 at the age of 60. Her first husband had already had an epitaph built for the couple in the parish church in Großwallstadt, so that she was buried at the side of the first husband. The tomb has been preserved. Her second husband, Grorodt, also had an important tomb in the Aschaffenburg collegiate church . Melchior himself died just a year later on July 20, 1578.

Her second husband Grorodt had once received an iron chain from Elector Ludwig with the promise to exchange it for a gold one if Grorodt came to the cure one day. After Anna's death, Grorodt turned to the elector and asked for the Stebbach fief instead of the promised gold chain. The Palatinate then moved in the Gemmingen hereditary property in Stebbach and Anna's property near Umstadt and awarded the property to Grorodt. The castle in Großwallstadt, the Gans'sche Adelshof in Umstadt and the Neustatter Hof in Grorodt also came from their other inheritance. Her heirs sold part of the remaining property to Leonhard von Gemmingen from the Gemmingen-Michelfeld line , who had already been given a golden goblet by Anna in her will, the house in Hilsbach and the right to a cheap purchase of the estate in Stebbach. She had bequeathed another golden cup to Leonhard's brother Sebastian von Gemmingen , and Georg von Gemmingen bequeathed 400 lumps .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ partly P f called raunheim. Belonged to the von Praunheim family , even if his father used the von Bommersheim coat of arms and associated it with a Frankfurt eagle.
  2. ↑ see the family information: Johann Friedrich Gauhe: Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon, Zweyter Theil , Leipzig 1740, p. 3092
  3. ↑ Peter Schröck-Schmidt: The Adelshof Gans von Otzberg , in 1250 years Groß-Umstadt 743-1993 , publisher. Magistrat der Stadt Groß-Umstadt, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, pp. 190-192.
  4. ↑ 1882 bronze relief mentioned in the collegiate church Aschaffenburg , after August Amrhein: The prelates and canons of the former collegiate monastery St. Peter and Alexander zu Aschaffenburg , Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg 1882, p. 354; and information from the archive director of the City and Abbey Archives Aschaffenburg, December 2013; Image of the relief
  5. ^ Wolfgang Hartmann: Excommunicated robber baron, empty burial chambers ..., In: Spessart 1991, issue 12, pp. 11-15.
  6. ^ Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner: Antiquities and history of the Bachgau in old Maingau: history of the city of Dieburg and topography of the former centers and offices of Unstadt, Babenhausen and Dieburg. Darmstadt 1829, pp. 287/288.

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personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen, Anna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anna von Pfrauenheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Heir's daughter of the Heidelberger Fauth Hans von Gemmingen
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1577
Place of death Großwallstadt