Bernolph of Gemmingen
Bernolph von Gemmingen († 17th December 1609 ) was high Electoral Palatinate court official and landowner in Bürg .
Life
He was a son of Eberhard von Gemmingen (1527–1583) and Maria Greck von Kochendorf († 1609). He was in service at the court of the Electorate of the Palatinate and moved to France with Count Palatine Wolfgang in 1559, but stayed there for several years after the ruler's death. In Paris he communicated with Count Gaspard II de Coligny, who was murdered on Bartholomew's Night in 1572 .
In 1578 he formed the Palatine embassy with the Boxberg bailiff Johann Philipp von Helmstatt and Hans Philipp Landschad von Steinach and Hans Meinhard von Schomberg, which was supposed to set up the marriage contract between the future King Karl of Sweden and the Palatinate Princess Anna Maria . On the return journey from Stockholm, after the ship had cast off, fire broke out, from which the ambassadors only escaped with their bare life. Only Bernolph managed to take a sleeping cap from the burning ship. He was dressed in red velvet by the Swedish Prince Karl according to the dress code of the knightly canton of Kraichgau . On the voyage home, the embassy also noticed an oncoming ship from which they believed they heard voices saying that the ship would bring the fat Enderlin from Ketch to Iceland, where they suspected hell. The innkeeper Enderlin from Ketsch actually died that day, according to legend he is known as the “Flying Dutchman of the Palatinate”.
Bernolph von Gemmingen was buried with his wife in Neuenstadt, where the couple's ornate epitaph has been preserved in the choir of the Nikolauskirche , which in the central panel shows the deceased with their large crowd of children under a resurrection scene.
family
He married Anna von Grumbach († 1607) on April 11, 1581. His wife was one of the allodial heirs of Conrad von Vellberg († 1592), the last of his tribe, who in 1595 sold their inheritance to the imperial city of Hall . She brought a third of Maienfels into the marriage. The couple had ten children, but some of them died in childhood. Several other descendants died in the plague year 1635, in which three children of the son Eberhard also succumbed to the plague.
Under the sons Eberhard († 1635) and Hans Conrad († 1632), the family line split through inheritance in 1629 into the branches of Bürg-Presteneck and Widdern-Maienfels, named after their possessions . Son Hans Philipp († 1635) was a company commander in the Thirty Years' War and, through his marriage to an Ehrenberg daughter, created a claim to one half of Heinsheim , which, however , came to the Lords of Helmstatt a few years later due to an inheritance dispute .
Progeny:
- Bernolff (1588–1591)
- Helena Maria († 1592)
- Anna Rosina († 1596)
- Maria Salome ⚭ Georg Jost von Fechenbach
- Anna Dorothea ⚭ Hans Hartmuth von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
- Maria Magdalena ⚭ Ludwig Christoph von Neipperg
- Anna Maria (1598–1635) ⚭ Hans Wolf von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (son of Wolf Dietrich von Gemmingen )
- Hans Philipp († 1635) ⚭ Anna Margarethe von Ehrenberg
- Eberhard (1583 / 84–1635), bailiff of Würzburg ⚭ Maria Agatha v. Venningen, Bürg-Presteneck branch
- Hans Conrad (around 1584–1632) ⚭ Ursula Katharina von Grumbach († 1607), Sibylla Maria von Helmstatt (1686–1663), branch Widdern-Maienfels
literature
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 181-184.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gemmingen, Bernolph von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palatine court official and landlord in Bürg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1609 |