Hans Philipp von Gemmingen

Hans Philipp von Gemmingen († 1635 in Landau ) was the leader of a Protestant company in the Thirty Years' War . In 1633 he received the Stein pledge from the Swedish government and in 1634 the village of Züttenfelden was enfeoffed. Through his marriage to Anna Margaretha von Ehrenberg, the barons of Gemmingen were also entitled to a half of Heinsheim , which was previously owned by the dying men of Ehrenberg .

Life

Epitaph for Bernolph von Gemmingen and his wife Anna von Grumbach in the Nikolauskirche in Neuenstadt am Kocher, where Hans Philipp is shown among the sons

He was a son of Bernolph von Gemmingen († 1609) and Anna von Grumbach († 1607). He traveled to France and Italy and then joined the Evangelical Union , where he was major in the regiment of Count Kraft von Hohenlohe. When the Swedish King Gustav Adolf and his troops moved up in Franconia during the Thirty Years' War , Hans Philipp took sides for the Swedish side and put together a riding company from his own resources. The Catholic troops, led by Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly , attacked Presteneck Castle and caused great damage there. Hans Philipp survived the attack only seriously injured.

In 1633 he was assigned the Stein pledge by the Swedish government in Mainz , as there were still large debt claims against the real von Mespelbrunn from his mother's inheritance . It was agreed that he should have the pledge until the real ones had paid their debts. In 1634 Count Ludwig von Erbach, the owner of the Amorbach Abbey , which was abolished in the Thirty Years' War, enfeoffed him with the village of Züttenfelden (today a district of Schneeberg in Lower Franconia). After the battle of Nördlingen in September 1634, Hans Philipp and his wife fled to Landau, where they made their will on December 9, 1634 in the Löwensteiner Hof . In it, she bequeathed 100 florins to the poor in Landau, 200 florins to those in Neuenstadt am Kocher and 10,000 florins to various friends and heirs. The rest of the inheritance should be taken over by her husband. However, Hans Philipp died a little later and was buried in Landau.

His wife's family, the gentlemen von Ehrenberg , died out in the male line in 1647. Hans Philipp's brother Eberhard († 1635) therefore took possession of the Ehrenberg's half of Heinsheim after Hans Philipp's death , over which there was a long dispute with Johann Konrad von Helmstatt , who was also entitled to inheritance and who was also married to an Ehrenberg daughter. It was not until 1649 that an exchange of goods was agreed, which brought the Gemmingen the Rüdt'schen Hof in Buchen , the Helmstatt the Ehrenbergsche half of Heinsheim.

family

From 1622 he was married to Anna Margaretha von Ehrenberg. Their son Johann Philipp came from the marriage, but he died on the day of his birth, January 20, 1632.

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 185/186.