Daniel von Kunheim

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Daniel von Kunheim (* around 1430 in Lorraine ; † 1507 in Mühlhausen near Preußisch Eylau , Duchy of Prussia ) was a mercenary leader and later a district judge in Prussia.

Life

Volkmar Daniel von Kunheim was born near Metz in Lorraine , where his great-grandfather Hugo von Kunheim was already based in 1309. His parents were the married couple Volkmar von Kunheim and Barbara von Zessingen, his paternal grandfather was Kilian von Kunheim. During the Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466) he came to Prussia as a mercenary leader to fight on the side of the Teutonic Order against the Kingdom of Poland . As compensation for defending the fortress Marienburg merit he received in 1468 by the Grand Master Ludwig von Erlichshausen the village of Mulhouse at Prussian Eylau 84 hooves and school tits with eight hooves, including the patronage over the village church Mulhouse . Under the court master Johann von Tiefen , he became a district judge in the Brandenburg area and received the fishing rights for the fresh lagoon as well as a number of other important privileges. Soon afterwards the Grand Master Friedrich of Saxony appointed him as district judge over the Bartenstein area and at the same time enfeoffed him with the Knauten estate .

Daniel von Kunheim enjoyed a high reputation as a skilful negotiator and, as a representative of the order, often took part in the estates meetings, including in 1474 in the negotiations with the West Prussian estates because of the Warmian bishops' dispute and in 1476 and 1478 as a spokesman in the negotiations with the West Prussians in Elbing . In 1474 he was exempted for life from all services and taxes that had previously been associated with his Mühlhausen goods due to special merits. In 1478 he accompanied Grand Master Martin Truchsess von Wetzhausen to pay homage to Petrikau near Lodz in Poland and in 1489 also Grand Master Johann von Tiefen to Radom . Under Grand Master Friedrich von Sachsen he acted as district administrator at the city ​​days until old age . In 1492 he went on a trip to Rome and obtained a permit from the Pope, which was valid for a hundred years, to sell indulgences in the Mühlhausen village church in order to finance renovation work on the church building. After that, the village church in Mühlhausen was a place of pilgrimage until the Reformation .

Daniel von Kunheim is the ancestor of the East Prussian branch of the Kuenheim family , whose headquarters remained in Mühlhausen until modern times.

literature

  • Lettau: Some news about the church in Mühlhausen; Especially the observation of the historical peculiarity that Dr. Martin Luther's daughter Margarethe, married v. Kunheim, is buried here. In: Prussian provincial sheets. Volume 5, Königsberg 1831, pp. 49-62.
  • Old German biography . Volume 1, Ewert, Marburg / Lahn 1974, p. 274.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Large complete universal lexicon of the sciences and the arts . Volume 15: K , Zedler, Halle and Leipzig 1737, column 2131-2133.
  2. ↑ Johann Gottlob Behnisch: Attempting a history of the city of Bartenstein in East Prussia and the parish, as a memorial to the city's five-hundred-year jubilee on August 3rd, 1832, with a description of the city and LIX. Side dishes. Königsberg 1836, p. 465.
  3. ↑ Johannes Voigt : History of Prussia, from the oldest times to the fall of the rule of the Teutonic Order . Volume 9, Königsberg 1839, p. 118
personal data
SURNAME Kunheim, Daniel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mercenary leader in the Teutonic Order, district judge in the Brandenburg part
DATE OF BIRTH around 1430
DATE OF DEATH 1507
Place of death Mühlhausen near Prussian Eylau , Duchy of Prussia