Heinrich Nikolaus Faust von Stromberg

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Heraldic tombstone in the Worms City Museum

Heinrich Nikolaus Faust von Stromberg († September 1621 ) was a Rhenish nobleman and Commander of the Order of St. John, today's Order of Malta . His qualitative coat of arms tombstone has been preserved in the Worms City Museum .

origin

He came from the old, now extinct noble family of Faust von Stromberg . His parents were Johann Friedrich Faust von Stromberg and his wife Eva von der Fels .

Life

Komtur coat of arms from the tombstone (on the right, the family coat of arms Faust von Stromberg )

Heinrich Nikolaus Faust von Stromberg joined the Order of St. John and advanced to the Order of Commander-in-Chief. He held this position in the Kommende Hangen-Weisheim , Rheinhessen . Most recently he seems to have been in Worms . He was buried here in 1621, in the no longer existing Kreuzkapelle of the Johanniterhof.

His coat of arms gravestone came from there to the Andreasstift serving as the city museum , where it is embedded in the inner north wall of the nave of the former church. It bears the inscription: “Anno 1621 in September is different in God the venerable, noble and strict Heinrich Nikolaus Faust von Stromberg, Sanct Johans knight, Commenther zu Hangenweilam, whose soul God wants to be merciful and merciful. Amen. ” In addition, the tomb shows a large personal coat of arms of the commander, half of the order cross and half of the family coat of arms of Faust von Stromberg . The ancestral coats of arms Faust von Stromberg , von der Fels , von Kerpen and von Sötern sit in the four corners .

His grandmother was Margareta Faust von Stromberg born. from Kerpen. Heinrich Nikolaus Faust von Stromberg is related to the Johanniter knight Johann Walter von Kerpen who was murdered in 1627 ; their great grandfathers were brothers.

literature

  • Johann Gottfried Biedermann: genealogy of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood of the Landes zu Franken praiseworthy places Baunach , Bayreuth, 1747, plate CCLXXVIII.A .; (Digital scan panel CCLXXVIII.A.)
  • Christian Gottlieb von Stramberg, Anton Joseph Weidenbach: Memorable and useful Rhenish antiquarian , part 2, volume 9, p. 738, Koblenz, 1860; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, p. 164, Leipzig, 1836; (Digital scan of the von der Fels family)
  2. ↑ Georg Lange: History and description of the city of Worms, together with the old legends that are related to it , Worms, 1837, p. 146; (Digital scan to the former Johanniter branch in Worms)
  3. ↑ Genealogical website with the two great-grandfathers Caspar and Bernhard von Kerpen
personal data
SURNAME Faust von Stromberg, Heinrich Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rhenish nobleman and commander of the Order of St. John, today's Order of Malta
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH September 1621