Philipp Eisenberger the Younger
Philipp Eisenberger the Younger (born October 22, 1548 ; † August 6, 1607 in Ortenberg ) from an aristocratic Hessian family, genealogist and lawyer wrote Die Chronik Eisenberger from 1593 , he belonged to the Frankfurt patriciate and was a member of the Alten Limpurg Society in Frankfurt am Main .
Life
Philipp Eisenberger was the son of the Ortenberg bailiff Philipp Eisenberger, called the elder (* December 15, 1499 - March 15, 1563 in Ortenberg) and his second wife Elisabeth Eisenberger (* November 7, 1521; † June 28, 1556 in Gedern) from the Gedern line of the Eisenberger . He grew up with six half-siblings and three siblings. His mother died when he was five years old, and his father when he was fourteen. The stepbrother Johann Thomas Eisenberger (* December 17, 1532, † April 24, 1575 in Aschaffenburg) took over the guardianship for the still underage siblings. He supported Philip's ten-year law degree (1565–1575) at the universities of Marburg , Jena , “Alma Mater Leucorea ” in Wittenberg , Leipzig and Ingolstadt .
Philipp did not use his studies, he married Catharina Bromm on June 24, 1577 in Frankfurt (born April 29, 1555 in Frankfurt; † August 11, 1594 in Mainz), she came from the Frankfurt patriciate and from 1577 lived in Mainz in the inherited house " to arks and grasp ”and lived on the inheritance. With this marriage, Philipp Eisenberger had advanced into the best circles in Frankfurt . He did not try to get a job either, his mentor stepbrother Johann Thomas had died in 1575. With the reputation of his wife, he applied in 1578 for admission to the Alten Limpurg Society, of which he was a member until 1598. The first child was born in 1588, a son who died while giving birth. Daughter Anna Elisabeth was born on July 7, 1589; she married on August 24, 1607 Conrad Nicklaus von Kellenbach (1582–1647) and died on June 4, 1632 in Ortenberg as the last of the Eisenberger names. Philipp Adolff, the third child, born on March 28, 1594, died on May 27, 1599 and was buried in his mother's grave in the St. Christoph church (Mainz) .
The widower with two small children married Margarethe von Meckenheim (born August 30, 1568; † January 26, 1603 in Mainz) on June 6, 1595 in Lambsheim, Palatinate , buried in the Peterskirchhof in Frankfurt, from the Palatinate nobility, was eleven years old before their marriage Court maiden at the courts of various countesses and educator of their children. the son Sebastian Melchior Eisenberger (born December 10, 1596 in Frankfurt; † February 15, 1597, ibid) and daughter Anna Maria Eisenbergerin (born August 19, 1599 in Frankfurt; † October 2, 1597, ibid) as a result of a measles epidemic and were both buried in the grave of their mother in Peterskirchhof.
In his third marriage, Philipp Eisenberger the Younger married Anna Juliana von Schmittburg on August 22, 1603, born in 1572 from the lower nobility in the Hunsrück . After the death of her husband, the widow lived in Mainz; In 1632 she fled the city occupied by Swedish troops. With her son-in-law Conrad Nicklaus von Kellenbach, who took over the Eisenberg inheritance, litigated 1636–1643 for their upkeep; Before that, the penniless widow wrote numerous begging letters to her son-in-law. Impoverished, she returned to Mainz in 1642, where she died a year later at the age of seventy-first. Like Eisenberger's first wife, she was buried in the Church of St. Christoph in Mainz.
The Eisenberger Chronicle
Philipp Eisenberger used the legal expertise acquired during his studies in the preservation and preservation of his legacy. His main activity was family research. Little by little, the Eisenberger family branches died out. After his stepbrother Johann Thomas died in 1575, he took over responsibility for the Eisenberger house as the "elder". First he wrote a "Eisenbergsches Buch", a collection of files and documents from his father's ancestors, which was followed by a "Brommsches Buch" about the maternal ancestors and the Frankfurt patriciate. Another work is an Eisenberger sal - and fief book , which is written by old Handt, bound in white parchment and inscribed with the Eysenberian shield, as well as the inscribed fief book on the right side ; After the Thirty Years' War it was used to reconstruct and prove the history of the Kurmainzer fief of the Eisenberg family in Massenheim.
The dispute over the Gedern legacy resulted in an impressive collection of files. After Johann Eisenberger's suicide (1514–1556) and his son Jakob Eisenberger (* 1548 and missing after 1573), who had left his parents' house in a dispute with his mother, the inheritance was confiscated by the Counts of Stolberg . The return also occupied the “lawyer” Philipp Eisenberger until his death. His son-in-law Conrad Nicklaus von Kellenbach had to agree to a settlement that was favorable to the Stolbergs before the Reich Chamber of Commerce.
His main work was Die Chronik Eisenberger . Here Philipp Eisenberger describes the origin, genealogical sequence and the closer family history (Ortenberger line) extensively and true to detail, as well as the progenitor Peter I. Eisenberger (around 1409–1588) and the Gedern and Hofheim lines with genealogical overviews. The work is illustrated with family coats of arms, portraits and contemporary pictures.
After his death, son-in-law Conrad von Kellenbach continued the chronicle with short additions and gave it to Anton Wolff zur Todenwarth in 1640. Today the original is in the Graf von Schönbornsche Schlossbibliothek Schloss Weißenstein in Pommersfelden .
Original page from the Eisenberger Chronicle
Alliance coat of arms Eisenberger - Bromm
Parents: Philipp Eisenberger the parents and Elisabeth Eisenbergerin his house fraw
The brothers-in-law in the stick fight - Hen Eisenberger stabs his adversary
Hen Eisenberger and Engelhart von Langsdorf are caught
Philipp the Younger Eisenberger fell ill with the plague and died on March 15, 1563 in Ortenberg. Quote:
- Now the plague came into his house last week, so he fled Meintz to his house [...] and died there of the plague
literature
- Hartmut Bock: The Eisenberger Chronicle. Edition - Commentary and Appendix; Illustrated history of a civil servant family of the German Renaissance - ascent into the Wetterau Niederadel and the Frankfurt patriciate - Illustrated gender books as a genre. Münsterschwarzach Abbey, Vier-Türme GmbH, 2001 ISBN 3-89282-040-6 (= writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main 22 ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hartmut Bock: The Eisenberger Chronicle - Appendix "
- ↑ Hartmut Bock: The Eisenberger Chronicle - Edition
- ↑ Hartmut Bock: The Eisenberger Chronicle - Commentary
- ^ Quote from the Eisenberger Chronicle Addendum son-in-law Conrad von Kellenbach
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eisenberger, Philipp the Younger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genealogist and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1548 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1607 |
| Place of death | Ortenberg (Hesse) |