Georg von Gemmingen (Canon)

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

Georg von Gemmingen (* April 23, 1458 - March 15, 1511 ) came from the Gemmingen-Michelfeld line of the southern German noble family of the Lords of Gemmingen , was a Catholic priest, canon in Worms and Speyer, and vicar general of the Principality of Speyer . He achieved great services in reforming church conditions.

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Georg von Gemmingen was one of the many children of Hans von Gemmingen zu Michelfeld, called Keckhans (1431–1487) and his wife Brigitta von Neuenstein . He completed his studies, which he completed with a doctorate in both rights, in Germany, France and Italy. In 1477 the aristocrat received a canon leasehold in Speyer, on November 8, 1480 he took over the office of cathedral singer and also became pastor in Gommersheim . In 1483 he was canon in Worms. In 1486 he and his sister Els donated a window to the Magdalenenkloster in Speyer . On March 3, 1487, Bishop Ludwig von Helmstatt elected him his vicar general and on July 28, 1488 he was promoted to the position of Provost of the Speyer Cathedral; he also acted as archdeacon . Synodal letters of the prelate still exist from the years 1488 to 1496, documenting his efforts to reform the church and the moral and spiritual renewal of the clergy. Presumably, he strongly influenced his younger brother Uriel von Gemmingen (1468-1514), who later worked in the same way as Archbishop of Mainz .

Together with the later Speyer Bishop Philipp von Rosenberg , he traveled to Rome for an ad limina visit in June 1491, representing Bishop Ludwig von Helmstatt . In 1492 Georg von Gemmingen is also mentioned as a canon in Worms, in 1494 he also held the dignity of cathedral dean there. The Speyer cathedral vicar Jakob Wimpfeling dedicated several writings to him from 1494, including his 1497 work Isidoneus Germanicus on the improvement of teaching methods , the publication of which Georg von Gemmingen had suggested in the first place.

Cardinal Raimund Peraudi (1435–1505), who called for a crusade against the Turks in Germany and Northern Europe, appointed Georg von Gemmingen on April 26, 1502 to be his commissarius (assistant).

After his death, the prelate, like his brother, Provost Erpho von Gemmingen , was buried in the (no longer existing) cloister of the Speyer Cathedral.

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  1. ↑ Source on the trip to Rome, 1491
  2. ↑ Source on book dedication by Jakob Wimpheling
  3. ↑ Source on the suggestion of Wimpheling's "Isidoneus Germanicus", by Georg von Gemmingen
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SURNAME Gemmingen, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provost of the cathedral in Worms and Speyer, vicar general of the Prince Diocese of Speyer, church reformer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1458
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1511