Elisabeth Silbereisen

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Elisabeth Silbereisen (* around 1495; † November 16, 1541 in Strasbourg ) was the wife of the Strasbourg reformer Martin Bucer . She probably came from Mosbach , came to the Lobenfeld monastery as a young woman and left it no later than 1522, the year she married Martin Bucer. From 1523 she lived with Bucer in Strasbourg and gave birth to 13 children, 12 of which, however, died early. After her death Bucer fought for the repayment of the introduced into the convent dowry to supply the last surviving, mentally handicapped son Nathaniel.

Life

She was the daughter of the shopkeeper Jakob Silbereisen, who had married into the prestigious Mosbach family Pallas / Ballas as an immigrant . Elisabeth is therefore also referred to as Elisabeth Pallas (in) in various sources . In addition to their daughter Elisabeth, Jakob and Anna Silbereisen also had their older daughter Anna and their mentally handicapped son Endris. The years of birth of the children and the chronological order of Elisabeth and her brother Endris are unknown. The parents, who died in 1511, probably left the children with an impressive fortune. Elisabeth's brother-in-law Jakob Schmid was taxed in Mosbach from 1513 at the highest rate of 7 to 10 guilders. Elisabeth herself had to pay 4 guilders Bede in 1513 . The fact that she is listed as a taxpayer means that when her parents died in 1511, she was already of age, i.e. H. must have been at least 16 years old, from which the estimate of your year of birth is derived. 1514 she paid again Bede, the mayor Mosbacher bill 1514/15 noted even 12 guilders tax for abgeführtes assets, most likely for the entrance to the monastery Lobenfeld necessary dowry , they should have provided for lack verpachtbarer plots in cash.

When and why she left Mosbach and came to Lobenfeld Monastery is not exactly known. Martin Bucer's correspondence states that she entered the monastery in 1514 and stayed there for eleven years; elsewhere he writes of twelve years in the monastery. However, she left the monastery in 1522 at the latest, so that a departure from Mosbach is conceivable before 1512, while the year 1514 mentioned by Bucer could be a transcription error from his difficult-to-read handwriting. Upon entering the monastery, which, according to Bucer, was based on a list of relatives, Elisabeth promised a payment of 200 guilders according to a letter from a prioress in 1557, so that the division of the estate had probably not yet been carried out when entering the monastery. Extrapolated from the bede paid, a larger fortune should also have remained in Mosbach, from which sister and brother-in-law might have drawn to the sole care of the mentally handicapped brother.

From Elisabeth's time in the monastery, a letter from Bucer to Count Palatine Friedrich from 1546 tells us that she suffered a serious accident in the first year of her life in the monastery and that she suffered a serious accident in ignorance of the life of the monastery. This was treated and healed in Worms, where she was probably accompanied by her brother-in-law. Bucer also talks about other illnesses and further trips to doctors in Worms. The Lobenfeld Prioress even judged in her letter of 1557 that Elisabeth would not have been accepted into the monastery if one had known about her illness. A major, whatever kind of health impairment Elisabeth suffered can therefore be assumed. Her sickly nature may also be the reason she came to the monastery. Sister and brother-in-law could have been busy caring for their brother Endris and their own children and "deported" the ailing Elisabeth to the monastery, probably the ruse mentioned by Bucer.

She left the monastery in 1522 at the latest and married Martin Bucer in Landstuhl that summer . How the couple met is unknown. However, they could have met in Heidelberg , where the Lobenfeld Monastery owned, in Worms , where Bucer stayed temporarily in 1521, or in the Lobenfeld Monastery, where Bucer could also have been in 1521. According to a written notification to Hector Poemer in Nuremberg on January 19, 1523, Bucer initially kept the marriage secret. On their way to Strasbourg, the couple came to Weißenburg in Alsace at the beginning of 1523, where Bucer signed up as a preacher for six months at the request of Pastor Heinrich Motherer . After the death of the reformatory Franz von Sickingen in May 1523, Bucer and Motherer fled to Strasbourg with their pregnant wives. In Strasbourg there were reservations about the married preacher Bucer, who was initially prohibited from preaching and performing spiritual acts. After Bucer had defended himself and other clergymen married in Strasbourg, Bucer was able to accept a pastorate in 1524.

Elisabeth died of the plague in 1541 . The couple had a total of 13 children, three of whom had died when Elisabeth died and two more died in the course of the same epidemic. In the year after Elisabeth's death, Bucer married Wibrandis Rosenblatt , the widow of the reformer Wolfgang Capito, who also died of the plague a few days before Elisabeth . The connection was a wish of Elisabeth Silbereisen to take care of the offspring. When Bucer's departure to Cambridge in 1549, only the mentally handicapped son Nathanael lived with Elisabeth, for whose care Bucer had been trying to return Elisabeth's trousseau in the Lobenfeld monastery since 1546. Only after Bucer's death and in the course of the Reformation of the Electoral Palatinate and the abolition of the monasteries did the Elector grant a payment of 100 guilders in 1559.

literature

  • Doris Ebert : Elisabeth Silbereisen. Citizen's daughter, nun, wife of the reformer Martin Bucer. Family and life stations (= Heimatverein Kraichgau eV special publication. 24). Heimatverein Kraichgau, Eppingen 2000, ISBN 3-929295-75-X .
  • Doris Ebert: Elisabeth Silbereisen. On "Martin Bucer - Briefwechsel / Correspondance" - instead of a review. In: Kraichgau. 22, 2011, ZDB -ID 127933-6 , pp. 155-157.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ebert 2000, p. 34.
  2. ↑ Ebert 2000, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Kopialbuch N3, Archives Municipales de Strasbourg, Bucerus Anno 1546 to Pfalzg. Friederichen, f. 68-69.
  4. ↑ Robert Stupperich (Ed.): Martin Bucers Deutsche Schriften, Vol. 1, Gütersloh and Paris 1960, p. 173.
  5. ↑ Ebert 2000, p. 33.
  6. ↑ Robert Stupperich (Ed.): Martin Bucers German writings, Vol. 1, Gütersloh and Paris 1960, p. 198.
  7. ↑ Kopialbuch N3, Archives Municipales de Strasbourg, Convents praise field response vff Jacobi Anno 1557, f. 70.
  8. ↑ Ebert 2000, p. 35.
  9. ↑ Kopialbuch N3, Archives Municipales de Strasbourg, Bucerus Anno 1546 to Pfalzg. Friederichen, f. 68-69.
  10. ↑ Ebert 2000, pp. 38-42.
  11. ↑ Ebert 2000, pp. 50/51.
  12. ^ Jean Rott: Correspondance de Martin Bucer, Vol. 1, Leiden 1979, No. 43.
  13. ↑ Ebert 2000, pp. 53/54.
  14. ↑ Ebert 2000, pp. 57/58.
  15. ↑ Miriam Christman ( Women and the Reformation in Strasbourg 1490–1530 , in: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 63, 1972, p. 148f.) Describes Elisabeth Silbereisen as prostitutes who had sexual contact with others during her time in the convention due to a translation error from Bucer's responsibility Men would have cared. Detailed explanation and rejection of this thesis in Ebert 2000, p. 60.
  16. ↑ Ebert 2000, pp. 58-63.
  17. ↑ Ebert 2000, p. 98.
  18. ↑ Ebert 2000, p. 101, Ebert 2011, p. 157.
  19. ↑ Ebert 2011, p. 157.
personal data
SURNAME Silbereisen, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elisabeth Pallasin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife Martin Bucers
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1541
Place of death Strasbourg