Anselm Franz von Hoheneck

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Family coat of arms on the tomb
Document from 1686 (excerpt)

Anselm Franz von Hoheneck (* around 1640; † January 7, 1704 in Mainz ) was a German baron, cathedral scholaster and vicar general in the Archdiocese of Mainz .

Origin and family

He came from the Palatine noble family of the barons of Hoheneck, which died out in 1808, with their ancestral castle Hohenecken near Kaiserslautern . The ancestor of the family was the Lauterer Reichsschultheiß Reinhard I de Lutra († 1218), whose son Landolf von Hoheneck († 1247) officiated as Bishop of Worms .

Anselm Franz von Hoheneck von Hoheneck was born as the eldest son of the Electorate Mainz Vice-Cathedral in Aschaffenburg , Johann Reinhard von Hoheneck and his wife Martha Helena von Eltz . His grandmother Anna von Hoheneck geb. Countess von Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht (1573–1626) was the niece of the Speyer cathedral dean Adolph Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1553–1612).

His brother Wilderich Marsilius von Hoheneck († 1735) was also canon in Worms, collegiate capital in Würzburg and vicar general or cathedral choirmaster in Mainz . Another brother, Johann Adam von Hoheneck († 1731), held the offices of cathedral dean in Worms and a collegiate capital in Würzburg . Philipp Franz Adolph von Hoheneck (1645–1705), second oldest brother, worked as Commander of the Teutonic Order in Nuremberg . Her nephews Johann Philipp von Hoheneck († 1743) and Johann Franz Jakob Anton von Hoheneck († 1758) officiated as canons in Worms and Mainz, the latter here as cathedral dean .

Live and act

Tomb of the brothers Anselm Franz von Hoheneck († 1704) and Wilderich Marsilius von Hoheneck († 1735), both Mainz vicars general, cathedral cloister in Mainz
Epitaph

From 1656 Anselm Franz von Hoheneck held a canon praisee in Mainz, from 1663–1667 he attended the Collegium Germanicum in Rome with his next younger brother, Philipp Franz Adolph . In 1679, the new Archbishop of Mainz, Anselm Franz von Ingelheim , appointed him as his vicar general in spiritual matters, and in 1689 he also became a cathedral scholar. Anselm Franz von Hoheneck retained these offices until his death in 1704. According to a deed from 1686, he also had a canonical at the St. Ferrutius Abbey in Bleidenstadt (since 1677) and was a privy councilor of the Electorate of Mainz .

Anselm Franz von Hoheneck was buried in the east choir of the Mainz Cathedral and received, together with his brother and successor Wilderich Marsilius von Hoheneck († 1735), a qualitative marble epitaph that was converted into the cloister in 1872 . It shows the family coat of arms on an obelisk and, according to the inscription, was donated by the nephew Damian Anton Maria, electoral chief magistrate in Miltenberg . The remains of the two canons were also transferred here.

literature

  • Johann Peter Schunck: Contributions to the history of Mainz: with documents , volume 2, p. 75 u. 76, Mainz, 1789; (Digital scan)
  • Johann Heinrich von Valkenstein: Antiquitates Nordgavienses , Volume 2, p. 94; (Digital scan)

Web links

Commons : Anselm Franz von Hoheneck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Genealogical website on parents
  2. ^ Sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order , Volume 25, p. 229, 1971; (Detail scan of Philipp Franz Adolph von Hoheneck)
  3. ^ Website on the epitaph of the nephew Johann Philipp von Hoheneck in Würzburg, with family genealogy
  4. ^ Carl Günther Ludovici : Large, complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts , Volume 19, 1739, column 2424; (Digital scan)
  5. Website on the Archdiocese of Mainz in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon (list of vicars general)
  6. Christoph-Hellmut Mahling : On the 70th birthday of Joseph Müller-Blattau , Musicological Institute of the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, 1966, p. 89; (Detail scan)
  7. ^ Philipp Alexander Ferdinand Walther : Archive for Hessian History and Archeology , Volume 13, Darmstadt, 1874, p. 351 u. 352; (Digital scan)