Dietrich von Gemmingen († 1414)

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Dietrich von Gemmingen , also Dieter IV. , (Mentioned from 1372 , † 1414 ) was a common progenitor of the two lines Steinegg and Gemmingen of tribe A (Guttenberg) of the barons of Gemmingen . He had numerous possessions, especially in Kraichgau and Zabergäu , including in Gemmingen, Stetten, Bönnigheim and Ittlingen.

Life

Grave slab of Diether (Dietrich) in Gemmingen

He was a son of Dietrich the Elder of Gemmingen († around 1374) and Elisabeth von Mauer. He is mentioned in a document in 1372 as a guarantor for the sale of the fourth part of Mulenbach by Albrecht Göler to the city of Eppingen , and in 1373 as a witness at the foundation of an early mass in Richen . In 1374 he was a recruiter and promoter at the tournament in Esslingen . In 1379 he and his brother-in-law Eberhard von Neipperg received half of Bönnigheim Castle from Adolf von Mainz as a manlee , in 1388 they also acquired the other half. In 1384 he appears under the guarantee of a sale by the Counts of Vaihingen to the Teutonic Order . In the same year he sold his fifth of the small tithe in Stetten to the community. In 1387 he and his wife Elisabeth von Sachsenheim bequeathed the preacher's monastery in Wimpfen an annual validity from their court in Kirchhausen. In 1390 he acquired a farm in Stetten from Kunigunde von Nippenburg, the widow of Georg Grau von Stetten. In 1392 he acquired a tithing in Zimmer from his brother-in-law Konrad von Sachsenheim, and in 1394 a sixth of the wine tithing in Gemmingen from the same. Also in 1394, subject to repurchase, he acquired a third of the tithe in Ücklingen from Wilhelm von Zwingenberg and his brother Wintroch. In 1398 he was present when Bishop Raban von Speyer enfeoffed Count Palatine Ruprecht II with Wolfsburg near Neustadt and Wersau. In 1400 he received a third of the wine and grain tithe in Stetten as a fief. In 1402 he and his wife Els von Frankenstein sold a third of the large and small tithe in Hasselbach to Weiprecht I von Helmstatt and his wife Anna von Neipperg for 100 guilders . In the same year, Dietrich acquired a pledge of goods, interest and validity in Meimsheim from the Meimsheim church owner Conrad Dachs . In 1404 he received half of the village of Ittlingen as a fief from the Counts of Oettingen , while he bought the other half. It was probably also Dietrich von Gemmingen who was sent to Heilbronn by King Ruprecht I in 1401.

In 1425, the sons Hans and Konrad signed a division contract with their nephew Diether (1398–1478), the son of Dieter V.

He was probably buried in Gemmingen. The burial place of the family was in the old Gemming church, the grave slabs from there ended up in the garden of the Gemming castle when the church was rebuilt in the 19th century . There is the grave slab of a Diether (Dietrich) with a large three-dimensional family coat of arms, which is held by a dog (today only fragmentarily recognizable). The grave slab has bevelled corners and a beveled edge on which there is a circumferential minuscule inscription. The type of design is unique among the numerous grave slabs preserved in Gemmingen. Your inscription is badly damaged in the area of ​​the year of death. Oechelhäuser read "1404". Since only Dietrich, who was discussed here and who died in 1414, is considered for that period, the grave slab mentioned will probably be his.

family

Dietrich was married to Els von Sachsenheim in his first marriage from around 1365. Around 1391 he entered into a second marriage with Els von Frankenstein.

Progeny:

  • Diether V. († before 1428) ∞ Anna von Selbach, founder of the I. Line (Steinegg)
  • Konrad († 1463) ∞ Margaretha von Weingarten, founded a family line that died out with the sons in the male line
  • Hans the Rich († 1490) ∞ Katharina Landschad von Steinach, founder of the II line (Gemmingen, Guttenberg)
  • Els ∞ W. von Sachsenheim
  • Maria ∞ J. Bayer from Boppard
  • Metz († 1485) ∞ Eberhard Weiß von Feuerbach

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf von Oechelhäuser: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 8.1): The art monuments of the districts of Sinsheim, Eppingen and Wiesloch (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1909, p. 178.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen, Dietrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gemmingen, Dieter IV. Von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ancestor of the Gemminger lines Steinegg and Gemmingen with property in Kraichgau and Zabergäu
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1414