Helmstatt

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Coat of arms of those of Helmstatt

The lords of Helmstatt were a noble family that had risen from ministeriality to the lower nobility and had owned the Kraichgau and Odenwald , later also in Lorraine , from the 13th century and provided several bishops of Speyer . They are of the same tribe as the Göler von Ravensburg and the lords of Mentzingen . The family's name-giving ancestral seat was in Helmstadt, in today's Rhein-Neckar district. The main line sat in the neighboring Neckarbischofsheim , where there were several castles and where the burial place of the male family, which died out in 1952 and was only continued by adoption, is in the church of the dead there .

history

Old Neckarbischofsheim Castle, ancestral seat of the main line of Helmstatt from the 13th century
The New Castle in Neckarbischofsheim, built in 1829
The Bischofsheimer Totenkirche is an important burial place for those of Helmstatt, there are over 40 historical tombs dating back to the 14th century

According to old chronicles, the family goes back to a knight Rabanus from the 10th century. As Community progenitor of the gender Helmstatt, Göler of Ravensburg and Mentzingen is Raven de Wimpina to Rappenau ( Rabans Au at Wimpfen am Neckar documented) in the year 1190th He was the builder of the Ravensburg near Sulzfeld (Baden) from 1212 to 1220 . The family first appeared under its current name in 1229 with a Heinrich von Helmstatt , son of the Hohenstaufen ministerial Raban von Wimpfen. The sons of Heinrich's nephew Dieter von Helmstat the Elder (documented 1258–1291) founded four family lines around 1300: the Helmstadt line (died out in 1694), the (main) line Bischofsheim , the Steinach line (died out in 1396) and the Rappenau ( extinct in the Rosenberg tribe in 1557 , in the Rappenau-Bonfeld tribe in 1628).

From 1274, the main seat of the most important line, Bischofsheim, was the Bischofsheim , which is adjacent to the headquarters in Helmstadt , and which Dieter von Helmstatt received as an imperial fief and where three of the family's castles are still located today: The old castle dates back to the castle mentioned in 1274 and still contains wall paintings from the 15th and 16th century, the New Castle was built in the 19th century instead of the New Stone House from the late 14th century and the Alexander Castle was first mentioned in 1545.

The family was in the service of the Count Palatine near Rhine and received numerous other goods as fiefs. Weiprecht I (1343–1408) was an electoral Palatinate councilor and managed to get three of his sons admitted to the electoral Palatinate council, including Weiprecht II. († 1421), who was Chancellor King Ruprechts . Under Weiprechts I. another four sons who entered the clergy, Raban von Helmstatt († 1439) became Bishop of Speyer and Archbishop of Trier, later another two Speyer bishops came from the von Helmstatt family.

With the increase in possessions and the division of inheritance, the Bischofsheimer line initially split into a Weiprecht tribe (after Weiprecht I) and a Raban tribe (after Raban III., 1336-1393, brother Weiprecht I). From these trunks, various branches named after their places of residence and possessions grew: The Weiprecht trunk is divided into the Bischofsheim branch (extinct in 1558), the Oberöwisheim branch (later: Hochhausen ) , the Durcastel / Hingsingen branch with possessions in Lorraine , and the branch Grumbach (extinct 1563). The Raban tribe is divided into the Helmstadt-Waibstadt branch and the Helmstadt-Fürfeld branch . After a line or branch died out, another usually entered the line of succession, several lines of succession were also influenced by adoption.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Helmstatt provided three bishops , 20 canons , several bailiffs , court marshals and Teutonic order committees and thus united secular and spiritual rule in parts of their area of ​​influence in Kraichgau and Odenwald . From 1561 the Helmstatt belonged to the knightly canton of Kraichgau and were predominantly oriented towards the Reformation. The family was also a member of the knightly canton of Odenwald , which belonged to the Franconian knight circle . The Reformation in Bischofsheim, Hasselbach, Flinsbach and Berwangen goes back to Philipp von Helmstatt zu Grumbach (1496–1563) .

The greatest abundance of power and possessions probably had the Palatinate Marshal Johann Philipp von Helmstatt zu Bischofsheim, Durcastel and Hingsingen (1545–1594), to whom the extensive possessions of his grandfathers Johann II († 1539) and Philipp († 1563) were the only heirs and who in 1592 also released a family branch in Lorraine that was in debt.

From 1624 the Helmstatt also had property in Handschuhsheim . They owned the Tiefburg there and later built the Freiadlige Gut as a mansion there.

During the Thirty Years' War , the fiefdom of the Obergimpern line was temporarily withdrawn from Bavaria and given in 1636 to the equestrian general Johann von Werth , only to return to the Obergimperner Helmstatt after the peace treaty in 1648, before it died out in 1684 and the fiefdom came to the Counts of Yrsch . After the death of the feeble-minded Wolf-Adam von Helmstatt in 1694, the headquarters in Helmstadt went to the family of Berlichingen-Rossach, who were related by marriage . The property in Oberöwisheim, where the castle burned down, was exchanged for a fiefdom in Hochhausen by Damian Hugo von Helmstatt (1719–1782) in 1751.

The family branch in Lorraine acquired 1738/42 which the rule Hing Sing adjoining county Mörchingen ( Morhange ) and the related count title. Pleickard Maximilian August Comte de Morhange et de Helmstatt (1728–1802) adopted Damian Hugo's son Franz Ludwig von Helmstatt (1752–1841) from the Oberöwisheim-Hochhausen branch in 1773 , through which the title of count passed to the Hochhausen branch . With him, the main line of the family also became Catholic again. However, Franz Ludwig's goods on the left bank of the Rhine were in debt and were sold or later confiscated by France. 1806 was carried out entirely the media coverage of the noble power relations, but the French title of count remained.

In 1795 Carl Christoph von Helmstatt died in the old castle Neckarbischofsheim. Since he had no sons, the evangelical line of the lords of Helmstatt died out. The fact that Bleickard Maximilian, a Catholic, took over the inheritance led to disagreements between him and the Lutheran knighthood of the Kraichgau .

The name of the family continues to exist in Hochhausen Castle to this day.

Around 1750 the Lords of Helmstatt acquired the town of Hochhausen and Damian Hugo von Helmstatt built Hochhausen Castle in 1770 on the remains of the former castle . In the 19th century, the Hochhausen branch formed the last line of descendants that still had various properties in the Grand Duchy of Baden . The male line of the family died out with the death of the childless brothers Bleickard von Helmstatt (1871–1952) and Franz von Helmstatt (1874–1956), the last born von Helmstatt died in 1966. Today there is only one line of descendants created by Bleickard through adoption in 1951, that bears the name.

coat of arms

Tournament book of the gentlemen of Helmstatt around 1600

The family coat of arms shows a red marked black (arguing) raven with spread wings and an open beak. On the helmet with black and silver covers a black and a silver buffalo horn.

The heraldic animal , the raven, was the namesake for the ancestors of the von Helmstatt family, the Lords of Ravensburg, as well as for several Raban von Helmstatt . The coat of arms is said to go back to knight Rabanus around 930, who, according to late medieval sources , is said to have chosen a bird as heraldic animal in honor of King Henry I , the bird maker. This derivation, which is documented in literature, is controversial, because ravens and crows are typical regional birds of the Kraichgau, so this regional reference should be more appropriate.

The different family lines only differed in their crest. The Helmstatt zu Bischofsheim had two buffalo horns, the Helmstatt zu Helmstadt a raven neck.

Important representatives

  • The family is said to go back to a knight Rabanus , who was knighted by King Heinrich I around the year 930 and is said to have built the Ravensburg in Sulzfeld . The heraldic animal, the raven, based on the nickname Vogler or Vogelsteller of the king, is said to go back to him. At least that is how it can be read in the "Antiquitates Göleriana", a family chronicle of the Göler von Ravensburg around 1600. Since Heinrich I was given his nickname later and knight coats of arms were not common until the early 12th century, historians doubt the knight-Rabanus legend. The "Historical and Geographical Lexicon" by Johann Brandmüller from 1726 also traces the family back to Ritter Rabanus, naming his son Karl Göler von Ravensburg as the patriarchs of Ravensburg and his youngest son Ulrich as the first from Helmstatt, who lived in the castle of Helmstadt took his seat. The relationship of those from Ravensburg and those from Helmstatt is undisputed, both families also wear the same coat of arms. Before 1229 there was no documentary evidence for the von Helmstatt family.
  • Raban von Wimpfen (* 1157 ?; † after 1220), first mentioned in 1190, alleged descendant of Rabanus and important Staufer Reich ministerial, built the keep of Ravensburg around 1220. Rabans Aue (today's Bad Rappenau ) is said to have belonged to his possessions at that time . He is considered the earliest established ancestor of the von Helmstatt family and had four sons, including Dieter and Raban von Ravensburg and Heinrich von Sulzfeld.
  • Heinrich von Sulzfeld was first recorded as Heinrich von Helmstatt in 1229 . In Helmstadt there was once a moated castle, of which today only a renaissance-era draw well indicates. Since Heinrich died childless, the property in Helmstadt fell to his nephews Dieter (* 1248), Conrad and Hertwich, sons of Dieter von Ravensburg.
  • Dieter (the elder) von Helmstatt (* 1248; † after 1291) received the castle in Bischofsheim from Rudolf von Habsburg in 1274 as an imperial fief. The first building of the old castle ("stone house") in Bischofsheim probably goes back to him. His brothers Conrad and Hertwich died childless, so that their share of the property also went to the descendants of Dieter. He had six sons whose large age differences suggest two marriages. His firstborn, once again named Dieter († 1299), was from 1279 provost in Wimpfen. Four of his other sons founded the four family lines: Raban the Elder († before 1311) the Rappenau line , Raban I the Younger († 1344) the Bischofsheim line , Gerungus I († 1307) the Helmstadt line and Konrad I (1278 –1335) the Steinach line .

Bischofsheim line

  • Raban I (the younger) von Helmstatt († September 20, 1344), brother of Raban the Elder, founded the Bischofsheim line , the crest of which was two twisted buffalo horns, one black and the other silver. In 1329 he acquired five farms in Grombach and the hamlet of Büchelbach, today's Oberbiegelhof . He had two sons: Raban II († 1343) and Dieter († 1344), as well as the daughter Isengard.
  • Raban II von Helmstatt († March 11, 1343), son of Raban I, was feudal lord over Neckarbischofsheim and after 1338 briefly lord of Hornberg Castle . He was married to Adelheid Rüdin von Collenberg and father of Raban III. (* 1336) and Weiprecht I. (1343–1408). He died in March 1343 when his two sons were still minors. These came into the care of her uncle Dieter, who, however, also died in June 1344. Her grandfather Raban I arranged in July 1344, two months before his death, that the Worms bishop Salomon transferred the Bischofsheimer fief to the two underage boys.

Rabanscher tribe

  • Raban III. von Helmstatt (* 1336, † November 29, 1393) was together with his brother Weiprecht I feudal lord of Bischofsheim until 1378. He was married to Anna Adelheid von Ehrenberg († January 9, 1377). In 1378 after the death of his wife, Raban sold his share in Bischofsheim to his brother Weiprecht, but kept his shares in Helmstadt, Bonfeld, Fürfeld and Waibstadt. His descendants founded the Raban tribe
  • Bastian and Burkhardt von Helmstatt (sons of Reinhard) sold the property in Fürfeld on April 21, 1516 to the lords of Gemmingen . Bastian von Helmstatt remained feudal lord of Treschklingen until 1538, when this fiefdom was also sold to Eberhard von Gemmingen.
  • The Raban tribe went out in 1627 with Heinrich von Helmstatt zu Waibstadt (1554-1627), married to Sara von Helmstatt zu Helmstadt (* 1542; † June 13, 1616). This was Sara’s third marriage. Heinrich and Sara had a son, Georg Philipp von Helmstatt († 1619), but he had remained as bailiff of the Palatinate castle of Birkenfeld and had already died before his father.

Weiprecht tribe

Raban von Helmstatt, Bishop of Speyer (1396–1438) and Trier (1430–1439). 18th century painting
  • Weiprecht I. von Helmstatt (* 1343; † December 5, 1408; also: Wiprecht the old), Palatinate Vogt in the Oberamt Bretten , had together with his brother Raban III. the feudal lordship over Bischofsheim and Helmstadt and from 1368 over three quarters of Obergimpern and Untergimpern . He acquired the sole fiefdom of Bischofsheim from his brother on June 24, 1378. On April 20, 1380 he acquired from Count Rudolf III. von Hohenberg also got a partial feudal right over Flinsbach (today a part of Helmstadt-Bargen ) and in the same year became feudal lord over Gondelsheim near Karlsruhe. As an influential councilor from the Palatinate, he was a financier and close confidante of Count Palatine Ruprecht III. , who became King of the Holy Roman Empire in 1400 and in 1401 as an adviser to his son and Imperial Administrator Ludwig III. and later sent as envoy to Duke Friedrich of Austria and the Swabian League of Cities. Weiprecht I was married to Anna von Neipperg († 1415) and had seven sons whom he wealthy and whom hehelpedto council positions in the Electoral Palatinate or spiritual positions in the cathedralmonastery ofSpeyer: Raban (IV.) Von Helmstatt (1362–1439) was born in 1396 Bishop of Speyer and 1430 Archbishop of Trier and consistently continued his father's expansion of power; Conrad († 1392) became Canon of Speyer, but died at the age of about 23; Eberhard († before 1404) and Reinhard the Younger († 1404) each left behind only one daughter, the Bischofsheimer line was therefore continued by the other three sons: Reinhard the Elder († 1399) ( Ast Bischofsheim ), Weiprecht II. (1369– 1421) and Hans I. († 1422) ( Ast Oberöwisheim-Hochhausen and Ast Grumbach ).
  • Weiprecht II von Helmstatt (* 1369; † April 25, 1421) was Commander of the Teutonic Order , followed his father to the Vogtsamt zu Brettenin 1392 , had high jurisdiction in Oberöwisheim from 1409and bailiff in Oppenheim in 1420. He married Elisabeth von Handschuhsheim († 1430) and left three sons and three daughters. His descendants formed the Oberöwisheim branch of the family.
Bischofsheimer branch
  • Reinhard the Elder of Helmstatt († November 13, 1399) was the father of Weiprecht III. († 1478) and Hans († 1476) and founded a branch of the Bischofsheim line , which however went out again in 1558. His descendants include:
  • Weiprecht III. von Helmstatt (* 1392; † 1478), married to Getze von Werberg († 1465), was probably the builder of the later called Alexanderburg , Bischofsheimer Burg, received the Steinacher Hinterburg from Bishop Raban for lifein 1426, which he rebuilt significantly, and in 1442 also the Steinacher Mittelburg as a pledge. At times he also owned half of the Vorderburg there . After his death, the rear castle passed to his nephew Martin († 1490, son of Hans). Martin was married to Else von Weingarten. Her daughter Mia von Helmstatt († 1496) was married to Blicker XIV. Landschad von Steinach , the builder of the church in Neckarsteinach , whose keystones in the choir show the coats of arms of the Landschad and Helmstatt.
  • Alexander I von Helmstatt († 1536), was the local ruler in Bischofsheim at the time of the peasant unrest . In 1524 he made concessions to the local farmers in a contract, but was not able to satisfy them in the long term. When the "Kraichgauer Haufen" was defeated by troops of the Swabian Federation and the Electoral Palatinate in the spring of 1525 after the destruction of Steinsberg Castle and negotiations in Hilsbach , the citizens of Bischofsheim, who in future only participate in local rule with 6 instead of 24 advisory councils, also capitulated were. However, in 1526 in Bischofsheim he introduced a reformatory church order adopted by the city of Basel. He became the namesake of the Alexander Castle in Bischofsheim. With his son Alexander II von Helmstadt zu Bischofsheim († 1558), who had eight childless descendants, this branch of the family died out in 1558 and was partly replaced by Hans and Jakob von Helmstatt from the Oberöwisheimer Ast, partly by Philipp von Helmstatt zu Grumbach (1496–1563 ) occupied from the Grumbacher branch.
Grumbacher branch
  • Hans I. von Helmstatt (* 1366; † August 21 or 23, 1422) continued the main line of Bischofsheim. He was bailiff in Lauterburg and in 1404 received an eighth to Castle Meistersel in the Palatinate. In Bischofsheim he introduced the "Citizens' Representation of the Twenty-Four", a 24-member council that can be seen as the origin of the city council there. In 1422, Hans I and one of his sons supported the Imperial Chamberlain Konrad von Weinsberg in exercising his rule in Munzenberg, Falkenstein and Königstein. He was married to Guta Knebel von Katzenelnbogen (* 1371) since 1392 and had seven children: Hans II. (1394–1471) ( Grumbacher Ast ), Reinhard (1400–1456), Eberhard († 1427), Weiprecht V. (†) 1466), Damian († 1466) ( Dürrkasteler / Hinsinger Ast ), Heinrich and Anna (1404–1466). Son Reinhard von Helmstatt (1400–1456) gained special importance as Speyer bishop from 1439 to 1456. In 1447 he laid the foundation stone for the Church of Our Lady in Bruchsal .
  • Damian von Helmstatt († 1466) left the sons Heinrich von Helmstatt († 1491) and Jakob von Helmstatt († 1522), as well as the daughters Mechthild and Clara. Damian's widow Margarethe Hase von Dievelich had a son Egenolf from his second marriage to Heinrich von Ratsamshausen. From the inheritance of her father Heinrich Hase von Dievelich, who died around 1460, the Dürrkastel Castle in Lorraine came into the possession of the three descendants Heinrich, Jakob and Egenolf, who founded the Dürrkasteler branch of the family. Heinrich and Jakob also had shares in nearby salt pans. Heinrich also leased a property from Dedeling
  • Hans II. Von Helmstatt († 1471) followed his father Hans I from 1427 to 1447 as bailiff of Lauterburg. There he had to imprison his brother Heinrich on behalf of the Speyer cathedral monastery until 1436, as this original feud had sworn after he had been pushed out of the office of the Speyer cathedral provost by the family in favor of the other brother Reinhard. Hans II was married to Anna Landschadin von Steinach. He had several sons, including Hans III., Martin, Ludwig and Ulrich (1419–1488).
  • Ulrich von Helmstatt (1419–1488) was elected to the office of Bishop of Speyer after Reinhard von Helmstatt's death in 1456, but did not accept the election. He himself was Chancellor of Heidelberg University. His brother Nikolaus is also mentioned as Chancellor of the University of Heidelberg.
Parish church St. Ulrich (Deidesheim) , coat of arms keystone of Bishop Ludwig von Helmstatt (family coat of arms applied to Speyer diocese coat of arms)
  • Ludwig von Helmstatt (approx. 1435–1504) was bishop of Speyer from 1478 to 1504 and thus the third Speyer bishop of the von Helmstatt family. He received his episcopal ordination in Bruchsal , where he is also mentioned as the builder of the Church of Our Lady and the foundation stone of the castle. During his term of office there were significant tax increases for various reasons, while at the same time he restricted the forest, grazing and fishing rights of his subjects. The displeasure of the farmers in the communities of the Speyer Monastery during Ludwig von Helmstatt's tenure was one of the causes of the later outbreaks of violence in the Peasants' War in 1525. According to the New German Biography, the bishop's work was "determined by efforts to promote the religious and moral renewal of the secular clergy and their reform work in the monasteries of the diocese" . The humanist Jakob Wimpfeling praised the justice and piety of the shepherd in his poem “De laudibus et ceremoniis ecclesie Spirensis” .
  • Hans III. von Helmstatt zu Grumbach was from 1465 to 1485 bailiff of Lauterburg. He settled in Grumbach ( Grombach ). In 1481 he is mentioned as a tournament rider in a knight tournament in Heidelberg. His son E (be) rhard von Helmstatt († 1515) sold the castle and village of Grombach to the Lords of Venningen in 1498 and also became Vogt in Lauterburg in 1503. From his marriage to Gisela von Rathsamhausen three daughters and the son Philipp von Helmstatt (1496–1563) emerged.

  • Reinhard von Helmstatt, Bishop of Speyer (1438–1456). 19th century painting

  • Ulrich von Helmstatt († 1488), Chancellor of Heidelberg University

  • Ludwig von Helmstatt, Bishop of Speyer (1478–1504). 18th century painting

Philipp von Helmstatt (1496–1563), detail of the epitaph
  • Philipp von Helmstatt (born September 14, 1496; † December 12, 1563) from the Grumbacher Ast was court master of Bishop Georg von Speyer (1486–1529), but was dismissed in 1530 due to his Protestant faith. He then entered the service of his brothers, the Electors Ludwig V (1478–1544) and Friedrich II. (1482–1556). Philip foughton the Protestant sidein the Schmalkaldic War and accompanied the electorto Schwäbisch Hall in1546 to reconcile with Emperor Charles V. With his revision of Alexander I's church reorganization of 1525/26, which he renewed in 1560, he formally carried out the Reformation in Bischofsheim, Hasselbach, Flinsbach and Berwangen. Under Philipp the von Helmstatt also joined the organized knighthood . As early as 1522 he had joined Franz von Sickingen's Brotherly Association . In 1542 he wasappointed royal commissionerby King Charles V, along with Bernhard Göler von Ravensburg, Wolf von Gemmingen and Reinhard von Sachsenheim. This circle joined the knight circle of Swabia in 1547 and later formed the knightly canton of Kraichgau , whose statutes, confirmed in 1561, were also joined by Philipp. The founding or expansion of the Bischofsheim Latin School also goes back to him. His first marriage was to Margarete von Neipperg (* 1500; † April 28, 1547) and had two daughters from this marriage. After the death of his first wife, he entered into two other childless marriages. With his death, the Grumbach branch of the family died out. His possessions went to his grandson Johann Philipp von Helmstatt (1545–1594).
Dürrkasteler branch
  • Jakob von Helmstatt († 1522) became court master of the Electoral Palatinate and councilor to Bishop Georg von Baden in Metz. Among his descendants with Adelheid von Flersheim were at least five daughters, but only one son, Johann I († 1500).
  • John I of Helmstatt († 1500), married to Gertrud Pallant (Felsberg), was from 1473 also Lehnsnehmer of Neufelsberg (Devil's Castle) in Wallerfangen in the Saarland and was in 1485 by the bishop in Metz with part of the dominion Hing Sing invested, also 1497 with part of the castle and town of Sarralbe . Johann I had a total of 19 children, his successor was the eldest son Johann II († 1540).
  • Johann II von Helmstatt († February 7, 1540 or 1546) chose Dürrkastel as his permanent residence and expanded the castle. He also acquired rights in the village of Bischdorff in 1512, ten rights in various villages on the Saar in 1519 and shares in the Dieuze salt works in 1525. Johann II was married to Elisabeth von Ingelheim († 1542) from 1510 and had a total of 19 children, including Christoph (approx. 1530–1578), Philipp († 1559) and Johann († 1546). After various divisions of inheritance and succession after the death of childless eldest sons, but also a considerable increase in property in 1544, Philip's († 1559) son Johann III. von Helmstatt († 1591), who left only two daughters, suffered an economic decline between 1581 and 1590 for unknown reasons. His property was taken over by the Bischofsheimer Line by assuming the debt in 1592 and ultimately sold in 1599.
  • Philipp Jakob von Helmstatt († December 17, 1558 in Neufelsberg, welcomed in the Augustinian Church in Wallerfangen), second son of Johann I, lord of Felsberg and Gilsbach, knight of Jerusalem, Bailli in Schambourg, 1526 lord of Dagstuhl , was with Margaretha von Handschuhsheim († May 15, 1555 Neufelsberg, born in the Augustinian Church in Wallerfangen). Their daughter Anna von Helmstatt von Felsberg was married to Tiburtius Bechtolf von Flersheim (Baili in Lautern 1547, from 1548 Herr von Felsberg).
  • Johann von Helmstatt († after 1545 and before 1558), the second son of Johann II, married Philipp von Helmstatt zu Grumbach's daughter Anna Gisela von Helmstatt. Johann and his father-in-law Philipp acquired Alexander II's share of the Steinerne Haus in Bischofsheim in 1545 and had it converted into a residence by 1550, which the Helmstatt and Neipperg coats of arms indicate to this day. Both couples lived there, but Johann von Helmstatt died around 1550 before his father-in-law. After his death in 1563 or after the extinction of his branch in the male line of the Bischofsheimer property fell in different parts to Johann and Anna Gisela's son Johann Philipp († 1594) and to Johann's brother Christoph von Helmstadt (approx. 1530-1578) to Hingsingen, who Was canon of Speyer.
  • Christoph von Helmstatt , Lord of Bischofsheim, Hingsingen and Durcastel (* around 1530; † December 3, 1578) was still a minor in 1544 canon in Speyer, in 1570 as Vogt in Bruchsal and in 1571 in Saargemünd. He built the tithe barn and the rent office in Bischofsheim. From 1562 he was married to Veronica Landschadin von Steinach and died childless.
Johann Philipp von Helmstatt, detail of the epitaph
  • Johann Philipp von Helmstatt zu Bischofsheim, Herr zu Durcastel and Hinsingen (1545–1594) inherited the possessions of his father Johann around 1550, in 1563 the possessions of his grandfather Philipp, in 1578 the Bischofsheimer shares of his uncle Christoph and in 1592 other possessions from his nephew. He therefore bundled such a great wealth of property and power on himself like no other from Helmstatt before or after him. Several buildings in Bischofsheim go back to him, including the tithe barn, the rent office and the splendid gate at the castle. He was Marshal of the Electoral Palatinate from 1579–82 and 1592–94. Although his gentlemen from the Palatinate changed their denominations several times, Johann Philipp remained Protestant at all times. He was married to Agnes Landschadin von Steinach († 1580) in his first marriage since 1567, and his second marriage from 1588 to Dorothea Landschadin von Steinach († 1606). Johann Philipp left five sons: Johann Weiprecht, Bleickart, Valentin, Ludwig Carl and Philipp, among whom the father's possessions were divided up when his father died in 1594 and who, apart from Johann Weiprecht, all died in the course of the Thirty Years' War . Johann Philipp's descendants sold the last possessions in Dürrkastel in 1599 and had the Bischofsheimer Marienkapelleexpandedinto the town church of St. Salvator from 1610 to 1612.
  • Johann Weiprecht von Helmstatt († 1617), first son of Johann Philipps, was bailiff in Hochberg near Emmendingen. His younger brother Philipp von Helmstatt († 1633) was married to Maria Magdalena von Helmstatt zu Helmstadt, who in 1611 was the founder of the alabaster pulpit in the Bischofsheim city church. Philipp died in Saarbrücken.
Epitaph for three children from Helmstatt who died early, 17th century
  • Ludwig Carl von Helmstatt (1578–1632) was a councilor. His first marriage was to Agatha Marie von Helmstatt († 1619) from the Waibstadt branch of the family, with whom he had three children who died early: Johann Adam († 1605), Philipp Ludwig († 1617) and Maria Agnes († 1619), after whose birth the mother died. In his second marriage, he was married to Anna Wilhelma von Eltz, with two children who died early: Anna Felicitas († 1630) and Johann Carl († 1631). Ludwig Carl fled the chaos of war and died in Gemmingen in 1632.
  • Valentin von Helmstatt (1578–1637) continued the line in Bischofsheim with the New Bischofsheimer branch , but fled to Landau after the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, where he also died. He was married to Helena Maria von Massenbach († 1625) since 1598 and was councilor and court master of Kaiserslautern. His son Carl Friedrich von Helmstatt (1609–1651) was the ducal court master of Württemberg and married Sabina von Hagen zu Hageneck. Their son Carl Valentin von Helmstatt (1647–1702) was a treasurer of the Electorate of the Palatinate and councilor of the knightly canton of Kraichgau, he was married to Maria Ernestina von Venningen (1649–1698). Their son was Wolfgang Heinrich von Helmstatt (1681–1720), who was married to Juliana Charlotta Tritschler von Falkenstein (1690–1761) and was a ducal-Württemberg captain in the Louis Dragoon Regiment. With his younger son Carl Christoph von Helmstatt , the Protestant New Bischofsheim branch of the Dürrkasteler branch died out. The inheritance went to Franz Ludwig von Helmstatt (1752–1841) from the Catholic Oberöwisheim-Hochhausener Ast , who was adopted in 1773 by the childless lead card Maximilian Augustin von Helmstatt (1728–1802) from the Lorraine branch .
  • Bleickart von Helmstatt († 1636) founded the Lorraine branch of the Dürkasteler branch . He succeeded his father Johann Philipp as Marshal of the Electoral Palatinate, became deputy to Elector Friedrich IV in 1608, was knighted by Emperor Mathias in 1612 and fought in the Battle of Wimpfen as Colonel of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Baden against the Catholic troops under Tilly . From 1633 until the Swedes withdrew from the Neckar Valley in 1634, he was lord of Rothenberg , which he had received as Swedish war booty. He was with Walpurga von Neipperg († March 16, 1604) until 1604 and then married again.
Oberöwisheim-Hochhausener branch
Epitaph of Jakob von Helmstatt; Drawing in the Thesaurus Palatinus , around 1750 (coat of arms colors partly wrong)
  • Weiprecht IV von Helmstatt († August 24, 1445), was from 1430 to 1433 Vogt of Heidelberg and Lord of Bischofsheim and Flinsbach, acquired a quarter of the fief in Neuenstadt am Kocher , a quarter of Gochsen, Steinsfeld with the castle, Cleversulzbach, and Dahenfeld including the Burgstadel. His first marriage was to Magdalena Hiltmarin († 1429) and his second marriage to Anna von Hirschhorn († April 21, 1442) and had a son Georg von Helmstatt († 1468). His son was Christoph von Helmstatt († 1536) and his sons were Johann von Helmstatt († September 3, 1573), as well as the Electoral Palatinate bailiff Jakob von Helmstatt († after 1560), whose qualitative Renaissance epitaph from Lambsheim is now in the Historical Museum the Pfalz zu Speyer is located.
  • The Oberöwisheim branch came into the possession of the Tiefburg in Handschuhsheim through inheritance in 1624 . Despite some disputes over property, Friedrich Lorenz von Helmstatt (1596–1661) and his son Johann Ulrich von Helmstatt († 1689) managed to preserve the property. Johann Ulrich's son Georg Adam von Helmstatt (1676–1741) built the Helmstätter manor house near the destroyed Tiefburg .
  • Damian Hugo von Helmstatt (1719–1782) and Johann Ferdinand Josef von Helmstatt (* June 17, 1727; † September 7, 1803), two sons of Georg Adams, jointly acquiredthe towns of Haßmersheim and Hochhausen from 1743 from Messrs. Horneck von Hornberg . The last shares in Hochhausen were acquired by the Helmstatt in 1751 in exchange for the partially dilapidated or damaged Helmstatt property in Oberöwisheim. In 1770 the Helmstatt built the castle in Hochhausen on the remains of an earlier castle.

  • Damian Hugo von Helmstatt (1719–1782)

  • Maria Johanna von Helmstatt (1757–1806), daughter of Damian Hugo and canoness to Edelstetten

  • Ferdinand Josef von Helmstatt (1727–1803)

Grave pyramid of Franz Ludwig von Helmstatt
  • Franz Ludwig von Helmstatt (* 1752 in Hochhausen, † 1841), the son of Damian Hugo and Isabella von Knöringen, joined Marie Antoinette's French serviceearly on. As early as 1771 he had a captaincy license and later rose to the Maréchal de camp . In 1773 he was adopted by the childless Bleickart Maximilian Augustin, who had the title of Count Mörchinger, and made his heir. From 1774 he was married to Princess Caroline de Broglie (1754-1795) and received the title of his adoptive father on the occasion of the wedding, including the "Comte de Morhange " (Count of Mörchingen), whereby the Oberöwisheim branch came into possession of the title of count. When the revolution broke out in 1789, Franz Ludwig and Bleickart Maximilian Augustin had to flee France. After Bleickard Maximilian's death, Franz Ludwig inherited the Durcastler and Hingsinger estates, with the Lorraine goods temporarily confiscated by the French state. With his title of nobility from Lorraine, he was superior to his German relatives, who had lost their imperial immediacy in 1806. Because of his Catholic faith, he had to guarantee the Protestant citizens freedom of religion when he took up his inheritance in Hochhausen, where he had a Catholic chapel built in 1815. With Franz Ludwig, who was born in Hochhausen, the Oberöwisheim branch became the Hochhausener branch , which inherited the entire family. In 1829 he had the “New Castle” built in its place after the “New Stone House” was demolished. In 1835 he also acquired the moated castle in Eicholzheim . He had already acquired the Finkenhof near Hochhausen in 1812, where he is now buried under a striking pyramid of graves built by his grandchildren in 1844.
  • August Raban von Helmstatt (born November 25, 1776 in Paris, † October 6, 1842 in Hochhausen), the only son of Franz Ludwig, was married to Henriette von Cetto († 1848 in Paris) from 1806. His debt economy led to the loss of much of his father's property in Lorraine. At the age of 65 he inherited his old father, whom he only survived by a year, and had two sons, Counts Karl (1807–1868) and Maximilian (1810–1893), who died after the rapid death of their father divided the properties again into a Bischofsheimer line and a high-rise line .
  • Karl Ludwig von Helmstatt zu Hochhausen (* 1807 in Paris, † 1868 in Müllheim ) was a Bavarian councilor and died childless, so that the property fell back on his brother.
  • Maximilian von Helmstatt (born May 29, 1810 in Paris, † December 23, 1893 in Neckarbischofsheim) was a royal French cavalry master and in 1890 reconstructed the plans for the Alexander Castle in Bischofsheim, where he lived until his death. He had three children: Henriette (1843-1892), Raban (1844-1932) and Viktor (1851-1935).
  • Viktor von Helmstatt (born September 22, 1851; † August 26, 1935) initially managed the Freiadlige Gut in Handschuhsheim, but then moved to Neckarbischofsheim after his mother's death in 1905. He was married to Maria Countess von Strachwitz (1858–1944) since 1877. With his death in 1935, the Bischofsheimer line went out because of his six children (two sons, four daughters) only two daughters survived the father and the sons had died childless.
  • Raban von Helmstatt (* December 21, 1844 in Neckarbischofsheim, † November 24, 1932 in Hochhausen) arranged for a renovation of the Handschuhsheimer Tiefburg between 1911 and 1913. He was married to Gabriele von Falckenstein (1853–1927), with whom he had six children. The eldest son Bleickard von Helmstatt (1871–1952) was married to Klara von Bodman (1885–1967) and in 1950 sold the Tiefburg to the city of Heidelberg as the last Handschuhsheim property. Further descendants were Franz von Helmstatt (1874–1956), Ludwig von Helmstatt (* October 5, 1876; † August 29, 1915 in Dywin, Russia) and the three daughters Auguste (1873–1962), Hildegard (1880–1968) and Gertrud (1884–1963).

  • Maximilian von Helmstatt (1810-1893)

  • Viktor von Helmstatt (1851–1935)

  • Raban von Helmstatt (1844–1932)

The last native of Helmstatt , a daughter of Viktor von Helmstatt, died in 1966. The elderly Bleickard von Helmstatt (1871–1952) adopted a grandson of one of his sisters, so that Helmstatt's name lives on today in Hochhausen Castle, where descendants run a spa hotel affiliated to the Bad Rappenau spa.

Rappenau line

  • Raban the Elder of Helmstatt († before 1311) was the founder of the Rappenau line. In 1343, with the blessing of the Bishop of Worms, his descendant Konrad II von Helmstatt (* 1312) was allowed to equip the Rappenau branch chapel of the Wimpfen parish church as its own parish church.

Helmstadt line

Adam von Helmstatt zu Helmstadt, with his wife Helena, b. von Seckendorf and children 1572
  • Gerungus († 1307) was lord of the castle in Helmstadt and married to Gertrud von Zwingenberg († February 8, 1306). They had two sons: Gerungus II and Wilhelm von Helmstatt († after 1341). The descendants of Gerung kept their ancestral home in Helmstadt and formed the line between Helmstatt and Helmstadt , which had a crowned raven neck as a helmet ornament.
  • Gerungus II. Von Helmstatt († after 1365) was master of the previous building of Neuburg Castle near Obrigheim for a few years in the middle of the 14th century . He was married to Else von Frauenberg, his son Gerungus IV. Von Helmstatt († after 1364) was also married to one of Frauenberg.
  • Johann Conrad von Helmstatt zu Helmstadt , († 1677) married to Agnes Maria von Ehrenberg († 1665) since 1621, acquired the former property of the Lords of Ehrenberg in and around Heinsheim in exchange for goods located on the Main in 1637 . In 1660 he also acquired a share in Altwiesloch , which in 1664 he wanted in vain to exchange for a share in the town of Aub . His son Wolf Adam von Helmstatt zu Helmstadt († May 28, 1694) was considered feeble-minded and is said to have lived impoverished in Heinsheim. He remained childless. As the last descendant of Gerungus von Helmstatt († 1307), the line from Helmstatt to Helmstadt died out with him. Emperor Leopold I gave the place as a fief to Johann Philipp von Berlichingen-Rossach (1637-1711), who was married to Wolf Adam's sister Maria Magdalena von Helmstatt zu Helmstatt since April 27, 1663.

Steinach line

  • Konrad I von Helmstatt (* 1278, † 1335) was raised to the knighthood and was from 1326 Worms feudal lord at the Mittelburg near Neckarsteinach , where his son Luzzo von Helmstatt (* before 1316, † after 1347), the son-in-law of Boppo von Steinach , followed. Luzzo's son, also called Boppo, was able to unite the Worms part and the allodial part of the castle in 1382, but died in 1396 without heirs.

Tribe list

The stem list essentially shows the development of the Bischofsheim line founded by Raban the Younger († 1344), based on Dieter the Elder, the progenitor of all four family lines.

  1. Heinrich (adult 1229)
  2. Dieter d. Ä. (adult 1258–1291), nephew of Heinrich, 6 sons, possibly 2 marriages
    1. Dieter (exp. 1271–1299), provost in Wimpfen
    2. Raban d. Ä. († before 1311), Rappenau line
      1. Raban (adult 1344)
      2. Conrad (ext. 1345)
      3. Hans (ext. 1316)
        1. [...] (extinct 1628)
    3. Conrad (ext. 1296), Steinach line
      1. Luzzo (adult 1326)
        1. Boppo († 1396), childless
    4. Gerung I. († 1307) ∞ Gertrud von Zwingenberg, Helmstadt line
      1. Wilhelm (ext. 1324)
      2. Dieter
      3. Gerung (ext. 1310-1356)
        1. [...] (extinct 1694 with Wolf Adam)
    5. Dieter (adult 1294–1296)
    6. Raban I. (d. J.) († 1344), Bischofsheim line
      1. Dieter († June 14, 1344)
      2. Isengard ∞ Simon von Berlichingen
      3. Raban II. († March 11, 1344) ∞ Adelheid Rüdt von Collenberg, 2 sons, 2 daughters
        1. Raban III. († March 11, 1393) ∞ Anna Adelheid von Ehrenberg, Agnes von Müllenheim, line Bischofsheim tribe Raban
          1. Weiprecht
          2. Heinrich (adult 1381–1432) ∞ Elisabeth von Wolmarshausen
            1. Raban (exp. 1439–1476) ∞ Margarethe von Enslingen
              1. Friedrich (adult 1479) ∞ Walpurga, childless
              2. Ulrich (adult 1465)
              3. Conrad (adult 1480–1514) ∞ Lena von Morsheim, Magdalena von Merstein († 1496), 5 sons, 3 daughters
                1. Hieronymus († 1532) ∞ Catharina Ries von Sulzbach, 3 sons, 1 daughter
                  1. Hans Heinrich (exp. 1544–1581) ∞ Isolde von Wolfstein († 1559), Notburga von Bettendorf († 1592)
                  2. Hans Philipp (adult 1544)
                  3. Adam (adult 1544–1551)
                  4. nn (daughter)
                2. Conrad (exp. 1531–1551) ∞ Kunigunde von Schweinberg, Claranna Greck von Kochendorf
                3. Georg Conrad ∞ Notburga von Liebenstein, 1 daughter
                  1. Maria († 1592) ∞ Severin von Massenbach, Hans Philipp von Helmstatt
                4. Georg († 1574) ∞ Anna von Massenbach († 1544), Dorothea von Schönau († 1573), 3 sons, 2 daughters
                  1. nn (son)
                  2. Raban ∞ Barbara Marschall von Pappenheim, Magdalena von Venningen, Martha von Helmstatt, 8 children who died young
                  3. Heinrich († 1627) ∞ Sara von Helmstatt (1542–1616)
                    1. Georg († 1619)
                  4. nn (daughter)
                  5. nn (daughter)
                5. Hans († 1572) ∞ Susanne von Massenbach († 1562)
                  1. Adam († 1589) ∞ Agathe von Massenbach († 1604)
                    1. Maria Agatha († 1619) ∞ Ludwig Carl von Helmstatt
                    2. Helena ∞ Wilhelm von Venningen
                6. nn (daughter)
                7. nn (daughter)
                8. nn (daughter)
          3. Raban († before 1394)
          4. Hans
          5. Peter zu Fürfeld ∞ nn, Anna von Neuenstein († 1448), 3 sons
            1. Raban (exp. 1417–1449) ∞ Margarethe von Venningen, Ottilie von Sickingen
            2. Reinhard ∞ Anna von Vellberg († 1471), Anna Sturmfeder, 3 sons, 4 daughters
              1. Peter († 1547)
              2. Sebastian (adult 1495–1538) ∞ Margaretha Speth
              3. Burkard († 1537)
              4. nn (daughter)
              5. nn (daughter)
              6. nn (daughter)
              7. nn (daughter)
            3. nn (son)
          6. Reinhard
          7. nn (son)
        2. Weiprecht I. (* 1343; † December 5, 1408) ∞ Anna von Neipperg, 7 sons, line Bischofsheim tribe Weiprecht
          1. Reinhard the Elder Ä. († 1399) ∞ Mia von Sickingen, 3 sons, 1 daughter Bischofsheimer Ast
            1. Hans († 1476) ∞ Elisabeth von Zeiskam , 6 sons, 1 daughter
              1. Wilhelm († 1474)
              2. Reinhard († 1476)
              3. Martin d. J. († 1490) ∞ Elisabeth von Weingarten, 1 son, 5 daughters
                1. Hans († 1494) ∞ Ursula von Stein zu Reichenstein, 3 sons, 3 daughters
                  1. Martin (adult 1494)
                  2. Alexander I. († 1536) ∞ Margarethe von Rosenberg, 1 son, 2 daughters
                    1. Anna († before 1561) ∞ Johann von Waldersdorf
                    2. Alexander II. († 1558) ∞ nn, 8 sons, 1 daughter, all childless
                      1. Philip
                      2. George
                      3. Cuno
                      4. Alexander
                      5. Hans Friedrich
                      6. Hans Wolf
                      7. Weiprecht (1554 Canon of Worms)
                      8. nn
                      9. Margret ∞ nn
                    3. Felicitas ∞ Reinhard von Schwalbach
                  3. Johann († 1506)
              4. Hans (adult 1469–1484), childless
              5. Raban († 1477)
              6. Weiprecht der Scheele (adult 1444–1454) ∞ Erlate von Erligheim, Elisabeth von Neuhausen
                1. Weiprecht († before 1528)
                2. Reinhard († 1525)
              7. nn (daughter)
            2. Weiprecht III. (1392–1478) ∞ Getze von Werberg († 1465), childless
            3. Raban (adult 1420–1431)
            4. nn (daughter)
          2. Raban von Helmstatt († 1439), 60th Bishop of Speyer, Archbishop of Trier
          3. Weiprecht II. (1369–1421) ∞ Elisabeth von Handschuhsheim, 2 daughters, 3 sons
            1. Weiprecht IV. († 1445) ∞ Magdalena Hiltmarin († 1429), Anna von Hirschhorn († 1442), Oberöwisheimer Ast
              1. Conrad (exp. 1449–1477) ∞ Elsa von Venningen, Else von Vellberg
                1. Hans (1464–1515) ∞ Veronika Schenk von Stauffenberg, 2 daughters
              2. Weiprecht VI.
                1. Weiprecht († 1533) childless
              3. Philipp († before 1457)
              4. Georg († 1457) ∞ Catharina von Windeck, Simone Schenk von Winterstetten
                1. Christoph († 1536) ∞ Margarethe Hofler von Kirnhofstatt, 1490 Barbara Stock von Bechtolsheim
                  1. Jacob (exp. 1536–1547) ∞ Maria von Affenstein († 1556)
                    1. Wolf Christoph
                    2. Christoph
                    3. Friedrich (exp. 1586) ∞ Agatha Spiel von Kirweiler
                      1. (Friedrich) Lorenz (1591–1661) ∞ Maria Anna von Wiltberg
                        1. Johann Ulrich († 1689) ∞ Anna Maria von Gemmingen-Presteneck
                          1. Anton
                          2. Hans Ernst
                          3. Georg Adam Christoph (1676–1741) ∞ Johanna Veronica von Liebenstein, 5 sons
                            1. nn
                            2. nn
                            3. Damian Hugo (1719–1782) ∞ Maria Isabella von Knöringen, 5 children
                              1. Franz Ludwig (1752–1841) ∞ Caroline Amédé Salbigoton de Broglie, title of count from adoption by Pleickart Maximilien in 1773
                                1. August Raban (1776–1842) ∞ Henriette Freiin von Cetto (1788–1848), 2 sons
                                  1. Karl August Ludwig Adrian (1807–1868) ∞ Maria Anna von Seinsheim-Grünsbach (1813–1882), childless
                                  2. Maximilian Josef Maria (1810–1893) ∞ Augustine Freiin von Leoprechting (1823–1905)
                                    1. Henriette (1843–1892) ∞ Wilhelm von Cetto (1845–1919)
                                    2. Raban Karl Ludwig (1844–1932) ∞ Gabriele von Falkenstein (1853–1927), 3 sons, 3 daughters
                                      1. Bleickard Maximilian August (1871–1952) ∞ Clara Freiin v. Bodman (1885–1967), adopted the grandson of a sister through whom the family continued
                                      2. Franz (1874–1956) ∞ Paula Freiin von Lange
                                      3. Ludwig Wilhelm Maria (1876–1915) ∞ Isabella of Tessedik
                                      4. Auguste Victoria Maria (1873–1962)
                                      5. Hildegard Francisca Notburga (1880–1968)
                                      6. Gertrud Elisabeth Maria (1884–1963)
                                    3. Viktor (1851–1935) ∞ Countess Maria Strachwitz (1858–1944)
                                      1. Wiprecht Maximilian Theodor Maria (1878-1889)
                                      2. Dieter Franz Paul Maria (1890–1909)
                                      3. Auguste Friederike (1879–1955)
                                      4. Margarethe Henriette Maria (1880–1958)
                                      5. Elisabeth Gabriele Maria (1882–1961)
                                      6. Hedwig Anna Maria (1882–1966)
                              2. nn
                              3. nn
                              4. nn
                              5. nn
                            4. nn
                            5. Johann Ferdinand Josef (1727–1803), childless
                          4. Karl Anton
                        2. Franz Casimir
                    4. Lockpick
                    5. Hans Philipp
                    6. Bartel ∞ Margarethe von Thann, Amalia von Langenau
                      1. nn (daughter)
                    7. Sebastian († 1563) ∞ Barbara Hofwart von Kirchheim
                    8. Barbara ∞ Andreas Buser from Ingelheim
                    9. Paul ∞ Agatha Welsinger, Elisabeth Thumb of Neuchâtel († 1606)
                      1. nn (daughter)
                      2. Marquardt
                        1. Philipp Cuno († 1640) ∞ Anna Barbara von Geisspitzheim († 1636), Anna Amalia Horneck von Weinheim
                  2. George
                  3. nn (daughter)
                  4. Anna ∞ Wolf Eberhard von Sternenfels
                  5. Johann († September 3, 1573) ∞ Elgen Hofwart von Kirchheim, 1552 Magdalena von Weingarten
                    1. Philipp Christoph (1540–1569) ∞ Agathe von Stamheim, childless
                2. Catharina ∞ Georg von Venningen
                3. Georg (adult 1483–1487)
              5. Johann († 1487)
            2. Heinrich (Provost of the Cathedral in Speyer)
            3. Raban († 1436) (Provost of the Cathedral in Speyer)
            4. Gertrud ∞ Hans Hofwarth von Kirchheim
            5. Anna († before 1457) ∞ Konrad von Frankenstein, Hans Nothphia
          4. nn
          5. nn
          6. Hans I. († 1422) ∞ Guta von Katzenelnbogen, 7 sons, Grumbacher Ast and Durcastel / Hinsinger Ast
            1. Weiprecht († 1466) ∞ Anna von Hirschhorn
              1. Catharina ∞ Jörg von Rechberg
            2. Hans II zu Grumbach († 1471) ∞ Anna Landschad von Steinach, 1 or 2 more marriages, 5 sons, 3 daughters
              1. Ulrich († 1488), Chancellor of Heidelberg University
              2. Hans III. to Grumbach
                1. Hans (adult 1468–1476)
                2. E (be) rhard († 1515) ∞ Gisela von Ratsamshausen, Anna von Fleckenstein, 1 son, 3 daughters
                  1. Philipp von Helmstatt (1496–1563) ∞ Margarethe von Neipperg († 1547), Agnes verw. von Gemmingen († 1552/53), Agnes von Helmstatt
                    1. Anna Gisela ∞ Johann von Helmstatt († around 1550)
                    2. Anna Elisabeth († 1590) ∞ Hans Blicker Landschad von Steinach († 1583)
                  2. nn (daughter)
                  3. nn (daughter)
                  4. nn (daughter)
                3. nn (daughter)
              3. Raban († 1461) ∞ Margarethe von Ingelheim
              4. Nicolaus († 1480), Chancellor of Heidelberg University
              5. Ludwig von Helmstatt (approx. 1435–1504), 66th Bishop of Speyer
            3. nn (son)
            4. nn (son)
            5. Damian († 1442 or 1466) ∞ Margarete Hase von Dievelich, 4 children, Durcasteler Ast
              1. Heinrich († 1491) ∞ Johanna Von Ludres, 5 sons, 4 daughters
                1. Damian († 1507) Choir Bishop of Trier
                2. nn (son)
                3. Friedrich († around 1509) ∞ Helene von Gemmingen, childless
                4. Eduard († 1509), childless
                5. nn (son)
                6. nn (daughter)
                7. nn (daughter)
                8. nn (daughter)
                9. nn (daughter)
              2. Jacob († 1522) ∞ Gertrud von Pallant, Agnes von Eltz
                1. Johann II. († 1539, inheritance distribution 1543) ∞ Elisabeth von Ingelheim († 1542), 19 children, of whom 5 sons and 5 daughters were still alive in 1543
                  1. nn (son, monk of Murbach Abbey)
                  2. Johann († around 1550) ∞ Anna Gisela von Helmstatt
                    1. Johann Philipp von Helmstatt (1545–1594) ∞ Agnes Landschad von Steinach († 1580), Dorothea Landschad († 1606)
                      1. Johann Weiprecht († 1617)
                      2. Pleickard I. (1571–1636) ∞ Walpurga von Neipperg, Anna Margret von Liebenstein († 1639), 3 sons, 2 daughters, Lorraine branch
                        1. Johann Friedrich
                        2. Pleickard II. ∞ Eva Christina von Remchingen , Eleonore Henriette de Poitiers et de Wagneé
                          1. nn (daughter from 1st marriage)
                          2. Francois-Pleikart de Helmstatt ∞ Marie Josephe de Poitiers
                            1. Pleickart Maximilien Augustin de Helmstatt (1728–1802) ∞ Louise de Hinsange († 1811), Earl of Mörchingen, childless, adopted Franz Ludwig von Helmstatt
                      3. Valentin (1578–1637) ∞ Helena Maria von Massenbach (1598–1625), New Bischofsheim branch
                        1. Carl Friedrich (1609–1651) ∞ Sabina von Hagen zu Hagenbeck (1615–1672)
                          1. Carl Valentin (1647–1702) ∞ Maria Ernestina von Venningen (1649–1698)
                            1. Wolfgang Heinrich (1681–1720) ∞ Juliana Charlotte Tritschler von Falkenstein (1690–1761)
                              1. Wolfgang Friedrich Eberhard (1711–1788) ∞ Bernhardina Göler von Ravensburg, Josefa von Tettenborn († 1788)
                              2. Carl Christoph († 1795) ∞ nn, 8 children who died early
                      4. Ludwig Carl (1578–1632) ∞ Agatha Maria von Helmstatt († 1619), Anna Wilhelma von Eltz
                        1. Johann Adam († 1605), 5 weeks old
                        2. Philipp Ludwig († 1617), 45 weeks old
                        3. Maria Agnes († 1619), 38 weeks old
                        4. Anna Felicitas († 1630), childhood
                        5. Johann Carl (in) († 1631), childhood
                      5. Philipp († 1633)
                  3. Philipp († 1559) ∞ Helene von Hattstatt, 9 children
                    1. Philipp Jacob II. († 1570) ∞ Sophia von Hagen, childless
                    2. Johann III. († 1592) ∞ Magdalene von Elter
                      1. nn (daughter)
                      2. nn (daughter)
                    3. Christoph d. J. († 1581), childless
                    4. Friedrich German († 1571)
                    5. Salome († 1591)
                    6. nn
                    7. nn
                    8. nn
                    9. nn
                  4. Nikolaus († 1561), no male descendants
                  5. Christoph (around 1530–1578) ∞ Veronica Landschadin von Steinach, childless
                  6. Catharina
                  7. Margarethe
                  8. Ottilia ∞ Christoph von Dahn
                  9. Barbara
                  10. Clara
                  11. nn
                  12. nn
                  13. nn
                  14. nn
                  15. nn
                  16. nn
                  17. nn
                  18. nn
                  19. nn
                2. Anna († 1528) ∞ Dieter Kämmerer von Worms called von Dalberg
                3. Philipp Jakob I († 1558) ∞ Margarethe von Handschuhsheim
                  1. Anna ∞ Tiburtius von Flersheim
              3. Mechthild
              4. Clare
            6. Reinhard von Helmstatt (1400–1456), 62nd Bishop of Speyer
            7. Dieter
            8. nn (daughter)
          7. Reinhard the Elder J. († 1404) ∞ nn, 1 daughter
            1. nn (daughter)
        3. nn (daughter)
        4. nn (daughter)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wüttemb. Document book 2, pp. 268–269.
  2. ^ Walter Möller, family tables of West German noble families in the Middle Ages 3, Darmstadt 1936, p. 277 ff and Franz Gehring, Der Rabe im Wappen, in Kraichgau 2, Sinsheim 1970, p. 173 ff.
  3. ^ Mone, Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine 1, c. XV, 304
  4. ↑ Helmut Walther: Altwiesloch from the 13th to the beginning of the 19th century, in: Wiesloch - Contributions to Local History, Volume 1, Ubstadt-Weiher 2000, p. 81.
  5. ↑ Epitaph in the cath. Church of St. Maria in Waldbrunn-Schollbrunn

literature

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  • Villa Biscovesheim - Neckarbischofsheim 988–1988 . Association for home care, Neckarbischofsheim 1988.
  • Gustav Neuwirth: History of the City of Bad Rappenau. City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 1978.
  • Johann Friedrich Gauhen: Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexicon. Publisher Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1740.
  • The old territories of the Lorraine region as of January 1, 1648 . Part II, Strasbourg 1909, pp. 176-185.
  • Hermann Peter Barth: The rule Hingsingen. In: Journal for the history of the Saar region. XII, Saarbrücken 1962, pp. 134-148.
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN  0435-2408 .
  • Hans Heiberger: Handschuhsheim. Chronicle of a Heidelberg district. Heidelberg 1985, Helmstatt family table, pp. 76-77.

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