Christoph von Degenfeld

Christoph von Degenfeld (* 1535 ; † May 10, 1604 in Stuttgart ) was Obervogt in Göppingen and Blaubeuren and Oberstlandhofmeister of Württemberg .

Life

He was the son of Göppingen Obervogts Martin von Degenfeld (1500–1557) and Ursula von Plieningen († 1570). In 1560 he followed his father to the post of Obervogts von Göppingen, which he held until 1570. From 1576 he was the Württemberg steward.

In 1580 he acquired the feudal right to the Württemberg Castle Neuhaus and the Württemberg half of Ehrstädt for 4166 guilders and 40 kreuzers , with which he was enfeoffed on October 25, 1580 by Duke Ludwig . For 2500 guilders he also acquired the worms fiefdom of the other half of Ehrstädt in 1582.

In 1586 he was made Obervogt von Blaubeuren. From around that time on, he had Neuhaus Castle completely renovated. Presumably his son Johann Christoph I took care of the buildings, who was at the Württemberg court from 1587 to 1589, but received no further court posts afterwards, while the father became chief chamberlain and court counselor in 1591 and last held the office of chief court master. After the completion of Neuhaus Castle, the family sold the old ancestral seat of Burg Degenfeld in 1597 to the dukes of Württemberg. With Castle and Castle Eybach and Castle Neuhaus, the family owned three stately mansions. Christoph's sons divided the property between themselves after the death of their father and established the Eybach and Neuhaus lines.

Degenfeld's administration was controversial. He was considered contentious and probably also enriched himself in the Württemberg service through job trading, for which his son Johann Christoph later had to atone, who was long refused by Württemberg to be placed in the fiefdom of his deceased father.

According to his epitaph, he was buried in the Stuttgart Hospital Church in Hoheneybach.

family

He was married to Barbara von Stammheim, the daughter of Reinhardt von Stammheim and Margareta Laub von Weitershausen.

After the death of his brother-in-law Hans Wolff von Stammheim, the male line of the von Stammheim family died out. Christoph von Degenfeld therefore applied for the old Degenfeld to be united with the Stammheim coat of arms, which he was granted in 1589. His son Johann Christoph I married the widow of the late brother-in-law.

The marriage to Barbara von Stammheim had two sons and four daughters:

• Johann Christoph I. (1563–1613) ∞ Barbara von Reischach, established line Degenfeld-Neuhaus (extinct in the male line in 1921)
• Konrad († 1600) ∞ Margareta von Zyllnhardt, founded the Eybach line (later the Count's line Degenfeld-Schonburg, has existed to the present day)
• Anna († 1590), abbess in the Oberstenfeld monastery
• Magdalena (1570–1606) remained single
• Maria († after 1599) ∞ Conrad von Rosenberg, N. von Haugwitz
• Margareta Anna († 1642) ∞ Conrad Ludwig Thumb von Neuburg († 1601), Wilhelm VII. Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden

literature

• Friedrich Hub : Genealogy of the von Degenfeld family at Schloss Neuhaus, Ehrstädt, Waibstadt and Wagenbach. In: ders .: Ehrstädt and Neuhaus Castle. Ehrstädt 1967, pp. 420-438.