Eberhard von Gemmingen (Abbot)
Eberhard von Gemmingen (mentioned 1335 to 1368) was abbot in the Sinsheim monastery .
Life
He came from the Gemminger family line of the Velscher and was a son of Schweickardt the old († 1371) and the Gerhausin von Oewisheim. In 1335 at the latest he was abbot in the Sinsheim monastery and dubbed himself there as “by God's grace”. After the murder of Klein-Ulrich von Bromberg, his brother Hans came to the Sinsheimer Stift as a convent brother. On the Sunday after St. Urban 1335, Eberhard and the nobleman Dieter von Venningen exchanged the armchairs of the cloister courtyard in Rohrbach for 43 acres of arable land. In 1348 he gave the Worms church ownership of the monastery in Kirchheim near Heidelberg. In 1358 he sold his own property and that of the monastery in Stetten am Heuchelberg to Dietrich von Gemmingen . In 1365 he approved the sale of the Kirchstetten farm from his brother Schweiker the Black († 1377) to the Bretten Vogt Weiprecht von Helmstatt . He is no longer mentioned in 1372.
literature
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 29/30.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eberhard von Gemmingen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbot in the Sinsheim monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1335 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1368 |