Hermann von Sachsenheim (court master)
Hermann von Sachsenheim (* around 1428 / 1430 ; † 15. November 1508 ) was a German politician from the knights of Sachsenheimer . As court master and diplomat he was in the service of the Württemberg rulers. The city of Sachsenheim owes him the conferment of city rights in 1495 by the later Emperor Maximilian I.
Life
origin
Hermann von Sachsenheim was born between 1428 and 1430 as the son of the poet Hermann von Sachsenheim and his first wife Agnes Mönch. His father came from an old knight dynasty from Sachsenheim , was councilor of the Württemberg counts and turned to minstrel poetry in old age. → family .
education
Hermann von Sachsenheim began studying at the University of Heidelberg in the winter semester of 1446/1447. He probably finished his studies like his brother Jörg von Sachsenheim as a Baccalaureus Artium . If he matriculated like this at the age of 18, he would have been born in 1428. If he was younger but at least 16 years old, he would have been born in 1429 or 1430 at the latest. In any case, he would be the son of Agnes Mönch, the minne poet's first wife, who died in 1431.
Politics and diplomacy
Hermann began his political career around 1462. He held high offices in Württemberg and was often on the road as an envoy, first in the 1460s under Count Ulrich the Well-Beloved . From 1466 to 1471 he held the office of court master for the first time. “The Landhofmeister was the first official who was initially set up for state, not for court affairs. Such business was entrusted to him from all over the country; he was primarily responsible for the supervision of the officials . He was the highest authority for all financial matters. "
In 1468 he accompanied Count Eberhard im Bart on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where he and the other noble companions were knighted by the Holy Sepulcher in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher . In the 1470s, Hermann was in the service of Mechthild von der Pfalz , widowed Countess of Württemberg and mother of Count Eberhard im Bart, who had her seat in Rottenburg am Neckar . In addition, Hermann was Landvogt in Horb and Rottenburg. In 1474 he was in the entourage of Count Eberhard im Bart when he traveled to Mantua to marry Margravine Barbara Gonzaga there.
In 1481 Hermann was appointed court master of the Stuttgart part of Württemberg for 15 years. In the Münsinger Treaty of 1482, in the conclusion of which he was involved together with Ludwig Vergenhans , the Urach and Stuttgart parts of Württemberg were reunited. Eberhard im Bart, up to now Count in Urach , took over the government in Stuttgart and his previous land steward took over from Hermann. Hermann now served the count as advice, on the same terms as in his previous position as land steward, and “was constantly in the immediate vicinity of Eberhard”.
In 1486 Eberhard im Bart sent his Chancellor Ludwig Vergenhans , Johannes Reuchlin and Hermann von Sachsenheim to the Reichstag in Frankfurt, where they campaigned for the election of the future Emperor Maximilian I on his behalf . In 1488 Hermann was one of the signatories of the Swabian Confederation's document on the accession of Count Eberhard im Bart and was appointed to the Bund with the Landhofmeister and eight other councilors as representatives of Württemberg. The support for Maximilian's election as a king paid off in 1495 when Maximilian raised the county of Württemberg to a duchy at the Reichstag in Worms and granted Hermann von Sachsenheim city rights for Großsachsenheim.
After the death of Eberhard im Bart in 1496 and the early disempowerment of his successor Eberhard the Younger , Hermann was temporarily court master of Margrave Christoph I of Baden around 1500 . When Duke Ulrich reached the age of majority in 1503, he appointed Hermann "councilor and servant for life" and appointed him as administrator of the office of court master.
capital
After the death of their father in 1458 and their mother in 1459, the brothers Jörg and Hermann von Sachsenheim inherited a large number of real estate and land in Sachsenheim and around 80 other places, as well as part of the lay tithe and the Sachsenheim house in Stuttgart (see below). In addition, there were taxes that they received from their estates. The Sachsenheimers were so wealthy that they were able to grant loans to the Württemberg gentlemen more often.
Sachsenheim House
After the death of their parents, the old Sachsenheim house in Stuttgart became the property of their two sons Jörg and Hermann. They added another house to this building in 1478. Both houses existed until World War II when they were destroyed.
Retirement
Since the two brothers Jörg and Hermann had no male descendants, Hermann Reinhard von Sachsenheim, the husband of his daughter Margaretha, made him heir. He died on November 15, 1508 between the ages of 78 and 80. His brother Jörg died 4 months earlier on July 25th at the age of 80 or 81. Hermann was buried in the collegiate church , the most important church in Stuttgart, where the stone image of the " Praying Knight " still reminds of him.
family
Hermann von Sachsenheim married Susanna Volland before 1489. The marriage had two children:
- Margaretha of Sachsenheim (? –1556). She was married to the knight Reinhard von Sachsenheim (? –1560), who built Großsachsenheim Castle in 1544 . The couple's son was Hans Melchior von Sachsenheim (? –1559), who married Margaretha von Venningen (? –1569).
- Susanna von Sachsenheim. She was married to Kaspar von Nippenburg, her second marriage to Hans von Liebenstein.
Memberships
- Knight's association with Sankt Jörgenschild , part of the Neckar.
The praying knight
"The praying knight" in the choir of the collegiate church in Stuttgart is an almost life-size stone image of the Landhofmeister Hermann von Sachsenheim. The work of an unknown sculptor was created in 1501, seven years before Hermann's death. The figure shows a slender man of about 70 years, in full armor, kneeling with hands clasped in prayer, with an order chain and helmet removed, with curly shoulder-length hair on a strong head with a protruding cheekbone, a distinctive nose, furrowed forehead and numerous wrinkles and deep lines Rings around the eyes. A copy of the sculpture is in the town church of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian in Sachsenheim .
literature
- Kurt Bachteler: History of the City of Großsachsenheim. Trade and Industry Association, Großsachsenheim 1962, especially pages 69–71.
- Kurt Bachteler: Sachsenheim: Gate to the Stromberg. City of Sachsenheim 1975, pages 63–80.
- Adolf Diehl: The praying knight in the Stuttgart collegiate church. In: Württembergische Vierteljahrshefte für Landesgeschichte, 1939, pages 102–126.
- Dietrich Huschenbett: Hermann von Sachsenheim. In: Kurt Ruh (editor): The German literature of the Middle Ages - author's lexicon, 3rd [Ger - Hil]. de Gruyter, Berlin 1981, column 1091-1106.
- Ernst Martin (editor): Hermann von Sachsenheim. Literary Association, Stuttgart 1878, online , page 12.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ #Martin 1878 , #Huschenbett 1981 , column 1091.
- ^ Matrikel Heidelberg, Volume I, pages 253, 247.
- ↑ #Diehl 1939 , pp. 109–110.
- ↑ #Diehl 1939 , pages 110–111, #Bachteler 1962 , page 60.
- ↑ #Diehl 1939 , page 112.
- ↑ #Diehl 1939 , page 114.
- ↑ #Diehl 1939 , page 116.
- ↑ #Diehl 1939 , page 121.
- ↑ #Bachteler 1962 , pages 38–43, 62, 65-66, #Bachteler 1975 , page 59.
- ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , page 44, #Diehl 1939 , page 108, 124, Evangelical Church Community Großsachsenheim .
- ↑ #Bachteler 1962 , page 65.
- ↑ #Diehl 1939 , #Bachteler 1962 , page 59, Evangelical Church Community Großsachsenheim .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sachsenheim, Hermann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court master and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1428 and 1430 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1508 |