Gentlemen from Handschuhsheim
The Lords of Handschuhsheim were a medieval ministerial family named after their seat in Handschuhsheim (now part of Heidelberg ).
The origins of the gentlemen from Handschuhsheim are largely hidden in history. The earliest lords of Handschuhsheim probably came from the Ingrame family , whose story begins in 1130 with the Lorsch ministerial Rumhardus , whose descendants moved to the ministry of the count palatine. Ingram von Handschuhsheim , who was burgrave in Alzey in 1363, is descended from him . The Ingrame line ends with his son Ingram von Wieblingen , who is documented in 1393.
Like the Ingrame also came Swigger from the Lorsch ministerials and switched in 1195 to the Count Palatine. From 1219 to 1229 a swigger miles de Hendschuchsheim is mentioned. Another swigger was Vogt in Dossenheim from 1293 to 1316. His presumed brother Dieter (mentioned in 1293) is the oldest fully verifiable progenitor of the ministerial family.
The gentlemen from Handschuhsheim had their headquarters in the Handschuhsheimer Tiefburg . However, they did not exercise any local rule there, because that was rather with the Lords of Schauenburg in Dossenheim . The St. Vitus Church in Handschuhsheim served as a burial place , where a number of artistically significant tombs have been preserved.
The most important representatives of the Lords of Handschuhsheim were Dieter von Handschuhsheim, 1338-1345 court master of King Ludwig of Bavaria, and his grandson of the same name Dieter, who was Palatine court master in 1393, in which he was also succeeded by a grandson. Erasmus von Handschuhsheim was the city scholar in Heidelberg in 1567.
The family died in 1600 with the only 16-year-old (Johann V.) Hans von Handschuhsheim, who died in a duel with his cousin Friedrich III. von Hirschhorn suffered fatal injuries.
literature
- Christoph Bühler: Burgen der Kurpfalz - Bergstrasse and Neckartal , Heidelberg 1990, pp. 67–76
Web links
- The tombs of the Lords of Handschuhsheim in the St. Vitus Church . In: kulturer.be (ed.): Cultural heritage - news and notes - Landskundlicher excursion guide. (PDF, 327 kB)
- Family history website
Individual evidence
- ^ Archives for the history of the city. A quarterly journal, ed. by Hermann Wirth. 3 volumes. Heidelberg 1868-1870, Volume 1, pp. 140ff.