Eberhard von Gemmingen (1628–1675)

Eberhard von Gemmingen (* 1628 in Rappenau ; † July 28, 1675 there ) was landlord in Rappenau, ducal-Württemberg chamberlain and director of the knightly canton of Kraichgau .

Life

He was the son of Philipp von Gemmingen and Ursula Barbara von Warnstädt. His father, who had subdued the Protestant side at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War , was deprived of the Rappenau fiefdom , which comprised four fifths of the town, by imperial order . The father then returned to military service and died in 1638. The mother fled with Eberhard first to Fürfeld , later to Menzingen .

The French field marshal Ludwig von Schmidberg looked after the young man like a father and sent Eberhard to Seaumur and to the university in Strasbourg . Since the war continued and Eberhard had no hope of returning his father's fiefs, he joined Schmidberg's bodyguard as an ensign . The brothers Johann Christoph and Wolfgang von Gemmingen finally obtained an amnesty for Eberhard, which was proclaimed by the Archbishop of Mainz, Anselm Casimir, on September 20, 1642 and which led to the return of the Rappenauer and Treschklingen goods to Eberhard after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 . In 1649 he was also able to acquire the last fifth of Rappenau from the city of Wimpfen .

He was lifelong connected to his patron von Schmidberg. Even after the Peace of Westphalia, Schmidberg near Heilbronn was harassed by Spanish soldiers. Eberhard left Schmidberg's horse to flee and was instead temporarily held captive by the Spaniards. During the transfer of French troops from the Heilbronn area back to France, Eberhard and Major General Hans Georg von Rußwurm were imprisoned in Lorraine for more than half a year. Later he went on a trip to France with Rußwurm, where he stayed in Paris for a long time. Afterwards he was at the Württemberg court and in 1653 accompanied Duke Eberhard to Augsburg for the coronation of Emperor Ferdinand's wife.

He was ducal chamberlain in Stuttgart and at times director of the knightly canton of Kraichgau. He remained unmarried. His property came to his great-nephew Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1608–1680), the son of Reinhard the Scholar .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Year of birth according to Künzel 1996. In 1895 Stocker gave “April 1629” as the date of birth.

literature

• Emil Künzel: The Barons of Gemmingen (Hornberg) in Bad Rappenau , in: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 8 , 1996, p. 7/8.
• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 253/254.