Erpho of Gemmingen

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Keystone from the demolished cloister of Worms Cathedral (today in the Worms City Museum ), donated by Erpho von Gemmingen, as Speyer and Worms canon, 1515. In addition to the dedication inscription, it bears his parents' alliance coat of arms.

Erpho von Gemmingen (* 1469 , † 24. November 1523 in Speyer ) was provost at the Monastery of St. Guido in Speyer, from 1511 provost in pen Odenheim and later provost and archdeacon in Speyer.

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Erpho was one of the many children of Germersheim's bailiff Hans von Gemmingen zu Michelfeld, called Keckhans (1431–1487) and his wife Brigitta von Neuenstein . The father was the progenitor of the Gemmingen-Michelfeld line and planned all children except for his son Orendel (1464–1520) for spiritual careers. Erpho was canon in Speyer and Worms in 1498/99 , then cathedral dean in Worms and provost in St. Guido in Speyer. In 1507 he was the envoy of the Speyer bishop Philip to the imperial assembly of Emperor Maximilian II in Constance. In 1508 he obtained the pallium for his brother Uriel von Gemmingen , Archbishop of Mainz , in Rome . In 1511 he was elected provost of the monastery in Odenheim. In 1513 he took part in the election of Bishop Georg , to whom he advanced large sums of money in 1513 and 1515. In 1515 Erpho von Gemmingen donated an elaborate keystone for the (no longer existing) cloister of the Worms Cathedral , which is now in the Worms City Museum . In addition to the dedication inscription, he also bears his parental alliance coat of arms. The inscription reads: "1515 - Erpho von Gemmingen, doctor of both rights, provost of the Speyer Cathedral and to St. Guido in Speyer, as well as Canon of the Worms Cathedral". In 1517 he took the oath before the bishop as provost and provost of St. Guido.

According to the historian Franz Xaver Glasschröder (1864–1933), the year of death 1520 given in various sources is demonstrably wrong, as the memorial entry in the Seelbuch of the Speyer Cathedral is 1523 and the minutes of the Speyer cathedral chapter meeting on December 1, 1523 are also available, after which the death of Erphos von Gemmingen was announced that day and the election of his successor was scheduled for December 5th. He was buried in the grave of his brother, Vicar General Georg von Gemmingen , in the cloister of Speyer Cathedral (which no longer exists today).

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  1. ↑ Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder: Choir Rules and Younger Sea Book of the Old Speyer Cathedral Chapter , Speyer, Historischer Verein der Pfalz, 1923, pp. 627 to 630 (with biographical information and other personal sources)
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SURNAME Gemmingen, Erpho from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provost at St. Guido Abbey in Speyer and Odenheim Abbey, cathedral provost and archdeacon in Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1469
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1523
Place of death Speyer