Diether von Gemmingen (1398–1478)

Diether von Gemmingen (* 1398 ; † 1478 ), also Diether VI. , was a Baden country steward with property a. a. in Heimsheim , Steinegg , Tiefenbronn , Friolzheim , Lehningen and Mühlhausen . He rounded off his possessions through numerous goods deals and was involved in several feuds .

Life

He was a son of Diether V. von Gemmingen and Anna von Selbach. In 1425 he signed a division agreement with his uncles Hans and Konrad , in which he essentially acquired the property in Heimsheim, Steinegg, Tiefenbronn, Friolzheim, Lehningen and Mühlhausen, while his shares in other Gemmingen property went to his relatives.

The area around Tiefenbronn was in the area of ​​interest of the emerging states of Württemberg and Baden. Württemberg had already shown military strength with the overthrow of the Schleglerbund in Heimsheim in 1395 and the continuous expansion of both states in the area around Pforzheim raised concerns that the small Gemmingen rule between Baden and Württemberg could be crushed. Diether therefore placed himself under the protection of the Baden margraves as a precaution by selling his stake in Tiefenbronn and Mühlhausen as well as in Schellbronn and Münklingen to Margrave Jakob I of Baden, who then gave him the property again as a fief. The same happened again in 1439 and 1440 with other parts of his property.

As a Baden vassal , Diether was not safe from Württemberg. In 1439 he began a feud with Count Eitelfritz von Zollern , whom the Württemberg Counts Ludwig I and Ulrich V rushed to the side, who besieged and conquered Heimsheim. The ban and the eight were pronounced over Diether. Finally his uncle Konrad settled the matter in 1439 and was placed in the Heimsheim fiefdom himself, which he returned to Diether in 1440, who sold it soon afterwards, but later bought property there again. Württemberg reserved the right to open Heimsheim forever .

In the following years Diether carried out numerous other goods transactions. Once again he sold property to the margraves of Baden and was then reinstated in the fiefdom. In 1440 he received Weißenstein as a Baden fief, in 1448 Steinegg Castle, in 1454 Weissenstein and Dillstein Castle, and in 1457 Büchenbronn and Huchenfeld. With the goods business, he primarily sought to round off his property. The property in Friolzheim went to Hirsau Monastery in 1461, with the exception of the wild bans there . In the same year he received from Margrave Karl I. Steinegg, Tiefenbronn, Hamberg, Schellbronn, Hohenwart, Neuhausen, Mühlhausen and Lehningen as well as the Hagenschieß forest as a fief.

In 1462 he took part in the battle of Seckenheim on the Baden side , where he was taken prisoner. His distant relative Hans “der Kecke” from the Gemmingen-Michelfeld line, who was fighting in the same battle on the Palatinate side, was more successful and captured the Württemberg Duke Ulrich. Diether was only released from captivity after nine months. He had to pay for his freedom with an oath of primal feud and high ransom money. In order to raise the ransom, he was forced to sell parts of his property, including Weißenstein and in 1464 the village of Schafhausen to Count Ulrich von Württemberg. Nevertheless, he continued to make acquisitions. In 1463 he bought a stone house in Heimsheim, and in 1468 he also owned a house in Pforzheim .

When there was a dispute between Margrave Karl and Count Ulrich and Eberhard from Württemberg over the taxation of Baden subjects in Württemberg in 1469 , Diether had some Württemberg subjects arrested as Baden Landhofmeister. Count Eberhard then occupied Diether's property in Heimsheim. The conflict escalated when the city of Esslingen joined the feud and some villages were burned down. In a subsequent comparison, the occupied goods were returned.

In Reinhard the Scholar's family chronicle from the 17th century, Diether's death year is numbered as 1475 with reference to a grave inscription in Tiefenbronn. In the family chronicle of Pastor Stocker from 1895, however, it says that Diether was named in 1478 on the occasion of a comparison.

family

Diether was married to Agnes von Sickingen († 1478). The couple had 14 children who were once pictured in the painting of the Church of St. Maria Magdalena in Tiefenbronn. Only some of the children have reached adulthood.

Progeny:

• Agnes, nun in Pforzheim
• Margaretha, nun in Frauenalb
• Anna († 1511), clerical until 1468, then married Voltzen von Weitingen
• Christoph († 1480 or 1510), canon in Mainz, later pastor in Heimsheim
• Otto († 1517) ⚭ Ursula Späthin († 1490)
• Bernhard (1448–1518) ⚭ Anna Truchsess von Bichishausen († 1510)

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 310-315.
• Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen . Reprint from the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966, p. 126.
• Hubert Lindner: The book of Tiefenbronn with its districts Lehningen, Mühlhausen and Tiefenbronn . Tiefenbronn municipality, Tiefenbronn 1990

References and comments

1. ↑ Stocker (1895) et al. number him as Diether VI. In the Heimatbuch Tiefenbronn (1990) he is listed (erroneously?) as Dieter VII .