Gernand von Schwalbach

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Gernand von Schwalbach (* 1545 ; † April 21, 1601 in Kiedrich ) was Electoral Mainz councilor and first senior officer in Königstein im Taunus .

family

Gernand von Schwalbach was the son of Peters von Schwalbach († 1570) and Katharina von Heusenstamm († 1564); his wife Anna († January 3, 1606) came from the marriage of Dieter III. Breder von Hohenstein († 1571), prince-bishop of Speyer and Faut zu Bruchsal, and Katharin Roth von Burgschwalbach.

His father Peter Schwalbach was Solms'scher magistrate in office Greifenstein and was then Main hissers Council and steward in the office Amöneburg . Peters mother, Anna née Brendel von Homburg, was a relative of Elector Daniel Brendel von Homburg , which explains the bond with Kurmainz.

His wife Anna was heir to the allod holdings of the Breder von Hohenstein zu Hohenstein line.

As children, the marriage resulted in:

  1. Eva Dorothea von Schwalbach (* around 1573; † 1624), married since 1600 to Christoffel Eitel Schutzbar called Milchling (* around 1572; † 1622); Epitaph in the Evangelical Parish Church of Treis an der Lumda ,
  2. Gertraud Margretha von Schwalbach († 1629), married since 1601 to Johann Marquard von Rheinberg († 1615) zu Nauheim , buried in Kiedrich,
  3. Katharina Elisabeth von Schwalbach († 1622/35), married since 1608 to Johann Konrad von Vorburg (Jean-Conrad de Vorbourg ; Fohrburg) († 1622) zu Delsberg , councilor of the Archbishop of Mainz and bailiff zu Miltenberg and Stadtprozelten, imperial court judge,
  4. Wolf Adam von Schwalbach (* around 1587; † 1617) on Haseleck ( Hasselheck ), married to Anna Juliana von Eltz (* 1588; † after 1648) since 1610.

Gernands von Schwalbach's sister Katharina von Schwalbach became abbot of the Dalheim monastery . The sister Anna von Schwalbach married Friedrich Gottfried von Walderdorff († 1621) zu Bensheim, the Electoral Mainz bailiff at Tauberbischofsheim.

Act

After Kurmainz took over the county of Königstein , Gernand von Schwalbach became a member of the imperial-electoral commission for the takeover of the county and first senior officer of the new senior office of Königstein. In this capacity he served Kurmainz until his death in 1601.

His most important task was the transfer of the count's administration into the structures of the electoral state. It helped that most of the count's administration officials remained in office. Only the Stolberg bailiff Thielo Ziegler and the Stolberg councilor Dr. Ludwig Braunfels left Königstein.

He began with the inventory of the newly acquired county, which was not easy due to the fragmented situation and the often overlapping rights of individual rulers. This jurisdictional book of the Königstein rule was not completed until 1619 by his successors.

The regulation of the existing debts of the Königstein rule was also essential. The cessation of the count's court in Königstein contributed to this.

The most sensitive point was the question of religion. Königstein had become Protestant with the Reformation , but the new sovereign Kurmainz was Catholic. In the handover negotiations, Stolberg had unsuccessfully urged Kurmainz to renounce a change of religion according to the legal principle Cuius regio, eius religio . Religious affiliation was not affected during Gernand von Schwalbach's tenure. As a result, Gernand von Schwalbach, who was a Catholic denomination, was responsible for appointing the Protestant pastors.

The Counter-Reformation in the Oberamt Königstein, carried out under his successor from 1601, proceeded without major resistance.

death

Gernand von Schwalbach was buried in the Catholic parish church of St. Valentin in Kiedrich . After his wife died five years later, she too found her final resting place at his side. The epitaph reads:

"In 1601, on April 21st, the noble vnd vest Gernand von Schwalbach, Churfürstlich Maintzischer Raht vnd ​​Oberambtman who ruled Königstein, died."

- Epitaph

literature

  • Friedrich Stöhlker: The Kurmainzer Oberamtmen in Königstein (1581–1781); in: Heimatliche Geschichtsblätter, Königstein im Taunus, 1957, issue 4, pp. 36–39
  • The inscriptions of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Collected and edited by Yvonne Monsees (Die Deutsche Insschriften 43), 1997, p. 432 f., No. 538.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Great niece of the Archbishop of Mainz Sebastian von Heusenstamm († 1555); see. Friedrich Ritsert: History of the Lords and Counts of Heusenstamm . In: Correspondence sheet of the Gesamtverein der Deutschen Geschichts- und Altertumsvereine 32 (1884), pp. 8–10, 21–23, 32–34, 38–41, 48–50, 54–56, 62f, 72–75, 89f, 93-109, especially p. 102f ( digitized at archive.org).
  2. ^ Albert Freiherr von Boyneburg-Lengsfeld: Hohenstein 6 . In: Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , Vol. II / 9. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1832, pp. 400-402, especially p. 401 ( Google Books ).
  3. ↑ Cf. Damian Hartard von und zu Hattstein : Die Hoheit des Teutschen Reichs-Adels , vol. I. Johann Martin Göbhardt, Bamberg 1751, p. 532, cf. P. 437 ( Google Books ). The Mainz canon Gernand Philipp von Schwalbach is wrongly counted as one of the children here.
  4. ↑ Fig. Of the epitaph: see article Evangelical Church (Treis an der Lumda) .
  5. ↑ Cf. Johann Baptist Rady: Chronicle of Ockstadt. According to documents of the v. Franckenstein's archives in Ockstadt and Ullstadt . Bernhard Ekey, Friedberg 1893, p. 6 ( Google Books ; limited preview).
personal data
SURNAME Schwalbach, Gernand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Oberamtmann in Koenigstein
DATE OF BIRTH 1545
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1601
Place of death Kiedrich