Georg von Schwalbach

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Coat of arms of the von Schwalbach family, after Siebmacher

Georg von Schwalbach (* around 1480; † March 9, 1529 in Mainz ) was vicar general and provost in the prince-bishopric of Speyer .

Origin and family

He came from the Rhineland-Hessian nobility family of the Lords of Schwalbach , who had their headquarters in Schwalbach (now part of the community of Schöffengrund) south of Wetzlar. Georg von Schwalbach was born as the son of Gernand von Schwalbach.

Live and act

Schwalbach was sworn up and installed on September 2, 1510 on a Speyer canon praise. With the date of December 9th, 1513, he advanced to the position of cathedral curator , in the same year Bishop Georg von der Pfalz , with the support of the previous incumbent Thomas Truchseß von Wetzhausen , appointed him vicar general of the diocese of Speyer, which office he held until 1523. His successor was Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein († 1537). Georg von Schwalbach received a canonical at the Sinsheim monastery on June 27, 1517 and a position as cathedral vicar in Mainz on July 1, 1519 . Around 1520 he was elected provost of St. German in Speyer , which at that time was already located near St. Moritz . On December 5, 1523 he was elected provost of the Speyer Cathedral, and he was also provost of St. Guido .

Commissioned by Bishop Georg von Speyer, on behalf of Pope Leo X , Georg von Schwalbach was supposed to write an expert opinion on his book "Eye Mirror" in 1514 in the theological dispute between the Dominican Jakob van Hoogstraten and Johannes Reuchlin . He left this task to his confrater friend Thomas Truchseß von Wetzhausen. Schwalbach acted as his bishop's envoy to the Nuremberg Diet of 1524.

Along with Philipp von Flersheim and Thomas Truchseß von Wetzhausen, he was one of the most influential advisors to Bishop Georg von der Pfalz. He was considered one of the most promising candidates to replace him and was since 1524 the Council of the Elector Palatine Louis V. , and later by Archbishop Albrecht of Brandenburg in Mainz.

Georg von Schwalbach died in 1529 and was buried in the Nikolauskapelle of the Mainz Cathedral . The historian Georg Helwich handed down the epitaph.

literature

  • Carl Günther Ludovici : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts , Volume 19, Column 2437, Zedler Verlag, Halle and Leipzig, 1739; (Digital scan)
  • Gerhard Fouquet: The Speyer Cathedral Chapter in the late Middle Ages (approx. 1350-1540) , Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz, 1987, pp. 793 to 795

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Joseph Bodmann: Rheingauische Alterthümer , 1st Department, p. 359, Mainz, 1819; (Digital scan)
  2. ^ Konrad Friedrich Bauer: The inscriptions of the city of Mainz from early medieval times to 1650 , Volume 2 of: Deutsche Insschriften , 1951, p. 179; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Schwalbach, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vicar General and Provost in the Principality of Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1529
Place of death Mainz