Conrad Grünenberg

On the way home from Jaffa to Venice

Konrad Grünemberg's coat of arms

Conrad Grünenberg (also Konrad Grünemberg; † 1494) was an important citizen and knight from Constance .

Life

Exact dates of his life are not known, except for his death in 1494. His father, who was also called Konrad Grünenberg, was a wealthy member of the guild, sat on the city council from 1454 to 1462 and became mayor several times . In 1441, Konrad Grünenberg (probably his father) is mentioned as a "master builder" (supervisor of urban construction work). For the first time in 1474 the younger Konrad Grünenberg is clearly proven as the owner of a municipal office (namely as a mint master).

Grünenberg junior devoted himself to heraldry and wrote his book of arms named after him . In 1465, Emperor Friedrich III supported. him and his brother Hans leaving the guild and changing to the “Zur Katz” society; In this context, Friedrich mentions that Konrad Grünenberg had served him for a long time. For the first time in 1485 Konrad Grünenbert was named "Knight" in a tax list. From April 22, 1486 he was on a 22-week pilgrimage to Palestine and was knighted by the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

In a manuscript of his book of arms and in his travelogue, the Grünenberg coat of arms is shown with different additional characters, including: a. the Jerusalem cross, the half wheel of St. Catherine, the badge of the jug order , that of the sword order of Famagusta and an order of George, which was partly identified with the Habsburg order of St. George .

Works by Conrad Grünenberg

R. Count of Stillfried-Alcantara , Ad. M. Hildebrandt (ed.): Des Conrad Grünenberg, knights and burgers to Costenz, book of arms. Volbracht on the new day of the Abrellen do man zalt doing four hundred eighty and eighty jar. Reissued in color. Starke, Görlitz 1875–1884, (as facsimile, Saarbrücken 2009). Digitized
Johann Goldfriedrich , Walter Fränzel (ed.): Knight Grünembergs Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 1486 . With 24 replicas of Grünemberg's hand drawings. Voigtländer, Leipzig 1912, ( Voigtländer's source books 18), (as facsimile, Saarbrücken 2009).
Austrian coat of arms chronicle , manuscript in the house, court and state archives Vienna , contains around 84 coats of arms, fantasy coats of arms and coats of arms of Austrian nobles, created in 1482 or 1492.
Konrad Grünenberg: Description of the trip from Constance to Jerusalem, created around 1487 ( Badische Landesbibliothek , Cod. St. Peter pap. 32 digitized ) or around 1490 (Gotha, Research Library, Chart. A 541).

literature

Andrea Denke: Konrad Grünembergs pilgrimage to the Holy Land 1486. Investigation, edition and commentary . Böhlau, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20608-6 .
Andreas Klußmann: In God's name we drive. The late medieval pilgrimage reports by Felix Fabri, Bernhard von Breydenbach and Konrad Grünemberg in comparison . Universaar, Saarbrücken 2012, ISBN 978-3-86223-076-1 .
Wolfgang Oppelt: Bonaccia & Fortuna. Hans Tucher's adventurous pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Sinai and Egypt in 1479/80 . Volume I [Vol. II with appendix in preparation], Dettelbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-89754-332-4 .
Christof Rolker : Konrad Grünenberg's book of arms: acta et agenda. In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine , 162nd volume (2014), pp. 191–207 ( PDF ).
Christof Rolker: The baron who became an architect: (mis-) remembering Konrad Grünenberg (d. 1494) . In: Heraldica Nova, Medieval Heraldry in social and cultural-historical perspectives (blog on Hypotheses.org), February 1, 2017 (on errors about the life and work of Grünenberg)

Individual evidence

^ Chmel: Regesta Imperii . No. 4322 ( regesta-imperii.de ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Lexicon Heraldry , Gert Oswald , VEB Bibliographische Institut Leipzig, 1984
↑ On the accolade of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem cf. Wolfgang Oppelt: Bonaccia & Fortuna. Hans Tucher's adventurous pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Sinai and Egypt in 1479/80 . Volume I, Dettelbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-89754-332-4 , pp. 25-29.
↑ Andrea Denke: Konrad Grünembergs Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 1486. Investigation, edition and commentary . Böhlau, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20608-6 , pp. 44-45 .

Web links

Commons : Conrad Grünenberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Grünenberg, Konrad in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
Conrad Grünenberg's book of arms digital (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 145)
Conrad Grünenberg's book of arms digital (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 9210)
Description of the trip from Constance to Jerusalem - St. Peter pap. 32 in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

personal data
SURNAME	Grünenberg, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Konrad Grünemberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German heraldist and mayor of Constance and pilgrim to Jerusalem
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1442
DATE OF DEATH	around 1494

[1] Chmel: Regesta Imperii . No. 4322 ( regesta-imperii.de ).

[Oswald-2] Lexicon Heraldry , Gert Oswald , VEB Bibliographische Institut Leipzig, 1984

[3] On the accolade of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem cf. Wolfgang Oppelt: Bonaccia & Fortuna. Hans Tucher's adventurous pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Sinai and Egypt in 1479/80 . Volume I, Dettelbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-89754-332-4 , pp. 25-29.

[4] Andrea Denke: Konrad Grünembergs Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 1486. Investigation, edition and commentary . Böhlau, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20608-6 , pp. 44-45 .