Christoph von Trotha

Coat of arms of those of Trotha

Christoph von Trotha (also von Tratt , von Trott and similar, * around 1490, † after November 9, 1546 ) was a Palatinate nobleman. It was in 1511 by Elector Ludwig V of the Palatinate with Berwartstein invested , in the southern Palatinate part of the Wasgau (now Rhineland-Palatinate is).

family

Christoph was the son of the Palatine marshal Hans von Trotha (around 1450–1503) from the von Trotha family . In 1504 he was still a minor. He married Margaretha, a born Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler ; with her he had the daughter Martha († 1536), who married the Alsatian nobleman Friedrich von Fleckenstein . Since Christoph remained without male descendants, the line of those of Tratt at Berwartstein Castle died out with his death. According to the contract, the inheritance fell to his already widowed son-in-law Friedrich von Fleckenstein the Elder or his son Hans von Fleckenstein.

Life

In 1511 Christoph received Berwartstein Castle in Wasgau from Elector Ludwig V of the Palatinate as an inheritance from his father, as a hereditary fiefdom and the Grafendahn Valley (excluding Grafendahn Castle ). He was no longer in the same favor with the Elector as his father had previously been in the favor of Elector Philip , and in 1511 he had to return the villages of Niederschlettenbach and Bobenthal , which his father had borne as a fief, and which were in dispute with the Weissenburg Monastery . In the following year, 1512, a treaty ended the long-standing disputes that his father had had with the Weißenburg monastery over many other points. The quarrels with Klingenmünster Abbey persisted under Christoph. In 1543 a new feudal contract, which included the Vorwerk Klein-Frankreich and Burg Grafendahn, regulated that Christoph's son-in-law Friedrich von Fleckenstein and his son Hans von Fleckenstein would succeed Christoph in the fiefdom if he were to remain without a male heir. 1544 was Christoph Vogt of Weißenburg. On November 9, 1546, the noble, honorable Cristofel von Trath and his daughter Friedrich von Fleckenstein the old witness of a treaty. Both died probably not long afterwards, as in 1549 Christoph's grandson Hans von Fleckenstein succeeded his grandfather and father as a fiefdom.

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  Berwartstein Castle on one side ...

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  … Vorwerk Little France on the other

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  Grafendahn Castle

literature

• Johann Georg Lehmann : Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in the former districts, counties and lordships of the Bavarian Palatinate, a contribution to thorough patriotism . 1. Volume: Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in the former Speyergaue , Kaiserslautern 1857. On Christoph von Trott, pp. 72–80. On-line
• Thilo von Trotha: Preliminary studies on the history of the Trotha family. Collected by Thilo von Trotha , Neuwied 1860. On Christoph von Trott pp. 111–121. On-line

supporting documents

1. ↑ von Trotha 1860, p. 121
2. ^ Heidelberg University Library: Document Lehmann 477 dated November 9, 1546. Online