Georg von Ehingen

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Georg von Ehingen
Coat of arms of the von Ehingen family based on Scheibler's book of arms
Georg von Ehingen

Georg von Ehingen and Jörg von Ehingen (* 1428 at Hohenentringen Castle ; † February 24, 1508 , at Kilchberg Castle ) belonged to the Swabian noble family of von Ehingen . He was an imperial knight , diplomat and traveler.

Life

Georg von Ehingen was the son of Rudolf von Ehingen from the Swabian noble family of Ehingen and Agnes von Heimerdingen . The seat of the Ehinger was initially Hohenentringen, later Kilchberg Castle . There the nobleman donated a valuable altar, which is now in the Württemberg State Museum .

Since his training, Georg von Ehingen had close contact with the Habsburgs Nikolaus zu Popplau and Friedrich III. He was in his service until 1483. He traveled from farm to farm, and his journeys can be traced from many records. In the years 1449-1451 he took part in diplomatic channels to bring Friedrich's future wife, Eleanor of Portugal , to the court of the future emperor.

From spring 1440 to October 1442 he was on a pilgrimage to Rhodes and Jerusalem , where he the accolade for the Knights of the Holy grave was.

Around 1450 Georg was Archduke Albrechts chamberlain .

Georg von Ehingen became Obervogt Tübingen and a close confidante of Count Eberhard im Bart . He had the Jakobuskirche in Wankheim built after he became local lord of Wankheim in 1482. His wife, Anna Ülin from Reutlingen , ennobled by Richtenberg, brought the money with her into the marriage. After the resignation of Duke Eberhard II of Württemberg , forced by the king and later Emperor Maximilian I , Georg von Ehingen returned to the center of power as a member of the regiment for his minor successor Ulrich and became Federal Governor of the Swabian Confederation for the periods of office in 1500 and 1501 elected.

After two trips to Spain, he traveled to Russia in 1486/1487 and 1489/1490 . All trips took place on the imperial order. Travels to Castile , León , Navarra , Catalonia , Galicia and Portugal were more important to him than Compostella . He avoided the area of ​​southern Spain around Granada because of the Muslim rule (1492). He also wanted to fight for Portugal in North Africa.

A trip took him to England at the royal court.

He was buried in the collegiate church in Tübingen , where his epitaph is also located.

medal

Georg von Ehingen also immortalized himself with his medals in the Tübingen collegiate church by donating a glass window for the nave .

He got the Salamander Order of Duke Albrecht as military orders , the Neapolitan Order of the Crescent Order , founded in 1448 by Rene of Anjou-Provence , the Order of the scale or scales Order , the sash north, the Can Order , as Aragonese Orders, was by King for Knight of the Bath and was awarded the Order of Sash , which in 1330 as the Castilian order of Alfonso XI. had been donated.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ F. von Falkenstein: Ritterbuch , p. 183
  2. ↑ Illustrated website for the donated altar for Kilchberg Castle
  3. ^ F. von Falkenstein: Ritterbuch , p. 186 ff.
  4. ↑ Hans Schadeck: The emperor and his city . In: Hans Schadek (Hrsgb.): The emperor in his city. Maximilian I and the Reichstag in Freiburg 1498 , Koke Edition Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-933056-64-0 , p. 219
  5. ↑ On the trail of knights by bike: the possessions of the former local lords of Ehingen explored.
  6. ↑ Klaus Herbers, Nikolas Jaspert: “That appears to me Spanish before”: Own and foreign in the German-Spanish relations of the late Middle Ages , Lit, Berlin, Hamburg, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8004-4

literature

chronologically

  • Josef Seubert: Georg von Ehingen: Ortsherr von Wankheim , 3rd edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-8423-2942-3
  • Klaus Herbers, Nikolas Jaspert (ed.): "That seems Spanish to me". Own and foreign in the German and Spanish relations of the late Middle Ages . Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8004-4 .
  • Horst Carl: The Swabian Federation 1488–1534. Peace of mind and the cooperative in the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Reformation , DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2000, ISBN 3-87181-424-5 (= writings on southwest German regional studies, volume 24), especially pp. 262, 286–288.
  • Georg von Ehingen: courtier, knight, governor. An exhibition in the winter of 1986/87 , Tübingen Municipal Collections 1986
  • Hans Jänichen:  Ehingen, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 343 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm von Heyd :  Ehingen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 695-697.
  • Franz Pfeiffer : The Swabian knight Georg von Ehingen's journeys to knighthood , Stuttgart 1843 (= literary association ; online version as PDF )
  • F. von Falkenstein: Ritterbuch , 1863 (Reprint of the original edition: Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig, 2007)

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personal data
SURNAME Ehingen, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial knight and traveler
DATE OF BIRTH 1428
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenentringen Castle
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1508
Place of death Kilchberg Castle