Christopher III. from Pappenheim

Christopher III. Pappenheim (* 21st March 1538 on Castle Red Stone ; † 13. January 1569 in Neus, France ) was a marshal from the noble family of Pappenheim .

Life

Christoph was the son of Wolfgang I († 1558) and his wife Margareta von Roth († 1555) and enjoyed training as a soldier. After the death of his father Wolfgang in 1558, Christoph decided, together with his brothers Philipp and Wolfgang, to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem , which he and Philipp broke off in Venice and then traveled to Switzerland. Like his brother Philipp , Christoph also professed the reformed faith , which both got to know in Switzerland. In 1568 he joined the Count Palatine Duke Wolfgang . Together with Count Palatine Duke Wolfgang, he moved to France with around 17,000 soldiers in 1568 to assist the Huguenots . Both died in France in 1569, before the Huguenot War ended in 1598. Christoph left no offspring.

literature

Hans Schwackenhofer: The Reichserbmarschalls, counts and gentlemen from and to Pappenheim . Walter E. Keller, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-934145-12-4 , pp. 159 .
Emil Friedr. Heinr. Media: History of the Protestant Church in the Kingdom of Bavaria on this side d. Rh.Andreas Deichert, Erlangen 1863, p. 487 ( full text in Google Book Search).
M. Johann Alexander Döderlein: Historical news of the very old high-priced house of the imperial and the realm marshals of Palatine, and the married and dermahligen realm hereditary marshals, lords and counts of Pappenheim, etc. Johann Jacob Enderes, Hoch-Fürstl. privil. Book dealer, 1739, p. 253 ( full text in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

↑ M. Johann Alexander Döderlein: Historical news of the very old, high-priced house of the imperial and imperial marshals of Palatine, and the married and hereditary imperial marshals, lords and counts of Pappenheim, etc. Schwabach 1739 ( Full text in Google Book Search).
^ Joseph Sedelmayer: History of the market town Grönenbach . Ed .: Historical association for the overall promotion of local history of the Allgäu. Kempten 1910, p. 28, 29 .
↑ Bruno Reudenbach: Jerusalem, you beautiful - ideas and images of a holy city . Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 2008 ( full text in the Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Pappenheim, Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pappenheim, Christoph III. from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1538
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rothenstein Castle , Bad Groenenbach, Germany
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 1569
Place of death	Neus, France

[1] M. Johann Alexander Döderlein: Historical news of the very old, high-priced house of the imperial and imperial marshals of Palatine, and the married and hereditary imperial marshals, lords and counts of Pappenheim, etc. Schwabach 1739 ( Full text in Google Book Search).

[2] Joseph Sedelmayer: History of the market town Grönenbach . Ed .: Historical association for the overall promotion of local history of the Allgäu. Kempten 1910, p. 28, 29 .

[3] Bruno Reudenbach: Jerusalem, you beautiful - ideas and images of a holy city . Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 2008 ( full text in the Google book search).