Jakob von Helmstatt

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Drawing of the tombstone in the Thesaurus Palatinus , around 1750 (coat of arms colors partly wrong)

Jakob von Helmstatt (* around 1500 ; † after 1560 ) was the Electoral Palatinate bailiff in Dirmstein . His high-quality Renaissance epitaph from Lambsheim is now in the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer .

origin

Jakob was the great-grandson of Weiprecht II of Helmstatt (1369–1421), the chancellor of the German King Ruprecht I and brother of the Speyer bishop Raban von Helmstatt .

He was born the son of Christoph von Helmstatt († 1536) and his second wife Barbara Stock von Bechtolsheim .

The family branch resided in Lambsheim and called themselves mostly from Helmstatt to Lambsheim and Oberöwisheim .

Life

Jakob von Helmstatt had acted as the Electoral Palatinate bailiff in Dirmstein from 1547, which was divided at that time and also had a high-ranking Worms bailiff . According to the Lambsheim municipal archive, he lived in house number 46 in the Vordergasse in 1560, “with a bay window and six columns” .

He was married to Maria von Affenstein († 1556), who came from Dirmstein , daughter of the court judge or Reichstag envoy Wolf von Affenstein, and his wife Margarete von Zimmer , sister of the judge at the Imperial Court of Justice Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer . Maria Helmstatt born von Affenstein was therefore a cousin of Froben Christoph von Zimmer (1519–1566), the author of the Zimmer Chronicle . In addition, she was the aunt of Johann Friedrich Hund von Saulheim († 1635), German Johanniter Grand Prior and Imperial Prince of Heitersheim since 1612 , the son of her half-sister Regula Christophera Hund von Saulheim, née. from Affenstein.

Jakob von Helmstatt had at least 9 children with his wife. One of her descendants was Field Marshal Franz Ludwig von Helmstatt (1752–1841), another descendant of Isabella Countess von Tauffkirchen-Engelberg (1808–1855), whom King Ludwig I of Bavaria had portrayed for his gallery of beauties .

Death and remembrance

Maria von Helmstatt born von Affenstein died on November 28, 1556 and was buried in St. Stephen's Church in Lambsheim. There, the husband had an elaborate coat of arms-epitaph erected for her and for himself, which shows both spouses as relief figures with folded hands. The husband's date of death was not added.

The regional historian Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg recorded the tombstone around 1750 with a colored drawing in his collection “ Thesaurus Palatinus ” . At that time it was standing in the nave of the now defunct Stephanskirche in Lambsheim, which was divided between Catholics and Reformed. In the first half of the 20th century, the monument was moved to the Museum der Pfalz in Speyer because of its quality and historical significance, where it is still located today. It is signed below by the frequently appearing sculptor Jost Neibeck from Sickingen .

literature

  • Heinrich Rembe: Lambsheim, the families from 1547 to 1800 Volume 1 of: Contributions to the population history of the Palatinate , Heimatstelle Pfalz, Kaiserslautern, 1971, p. 11 and 41
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Administrative Region Palatinate, VIII. City and District Frankenthal, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, 1939, p. 350 u. 352 (with photo)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical page on Wolf von Affenstein ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.martinszeller-verband.de
  2. ^ Rudolf Häpke: The government of Charles V and the European north , Georg Olms Verlag, Volume 1, p. 289, ISBN 3-487-40543-1 ; (Digital scan of Wolf von Affenstein)
  3. ↑ Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher: Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation , Volume 1, pp. 10-12, University of Toronto Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8020-8577-6 ; (Digital scan, English biography of Wolf von Affenstein)
  4. ↑ Genealogical website about the person
  5. ^ Gravestone in the Thesaurus Palatinus
  6. ↑ Anneliese Seeliger-Zeiss: Die insschriften des Großkreis Karlsruhe , 1981, p. XXVI, ISBN 3-7608-9470-4 ; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Helmstatt, Jakob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Palatinate bailiff to Dirmstein
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
DATE OF DEATH after 1560