Jakob von Taubenheim

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Jakob von Taubenheim († after 1538) was a knight and doctor of law in the service of Landgrave Philip of Hesse , who served the Landgrave as a soldier, councilor and envoy.

Taubenheim is first recorded as a participant in the battle of Frankenhausen and the subsequent conquest of Frankenhausen on May 15, 1525, when Thomas Müntzer's peasant army was destroyed by troops of Philip and Duke Georg of Saxony and count Ernst von Mansfeld's soldiers.

In September 1529, it was confirmed again when, on behalf of the Landgrave , he escorted the Zurich reformer Ulrich Zwingli with a troop of Hessian horsemen from Meisenheim , where his men replaced an escort of the Count Palatine Ludwig II of Zweibrücken , to Marburg , so that Zwingli was invited there Philipps was able to dispute with Martin Luther in the Marburg Religious Discussion .

In 1533 he was one of the three Hessian councilors who were sent to Münster by Landgrave Philipp and brokered an agreement there between the new Bishop Franz von Waldeck and the townspeople, the "Dülmen Treaty" of February 14, 1533, which gave the town freedom of belief .

A year later, in 1534, as envoy of Landgrave Philip, he was involved for months in negotiations with the Archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht von Brandenburg . The mission of the embassy was to convince the archbishop in advance of the Hessian campaign against the Habsburg governor of Württemberg , the Count Palatine Philip , that the Hessian war preparations were not directed against King Ferdinand . Until 1538 it is documented that Taubenheim was often on a diplomatic mission for the landgrave.

When the Lords of Elben and Konrad (Kurt) von Elben died out in the male line in 1535 , the Elber Mark , which had previously been held by the von Elben as a fief of the St. Alban Abbey near Mainz , came to Jakob von Taubenheim with Elberberg Castle . This led to protests on the part of the heirs of the last Lord of Elves, which were cleared up as early as 1537; the Elber Mark came now in inheritance to the lords of Boyneburg called von Hohenstein and the lords of  Buttlar .

References and comments

  1. ^ JK Seidemann: Frankenhausen's residents on the battle day May 15, 1525 . In: Anzeiger für Kunde der Deutschen Vorzeit , Vol. 23, Nuremberg 1876, here column 196
  2. ↑ Martin Schuck, "Zwinglis Reise durch die Westpfalz", in Evangelischer Kirchenbote, Sunday paper for the Palatinate , No. 39, September 26, 2004 ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Dietrich Christoph von Rommel: History of Hessen , fourth volume. Hampe, Kassel, 1830, p. 177
  4. ^ Friedrich Küch, Political Archive of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous of Hesse , Hirzel, Leipzig, 1910 (p. 687)
  5. ↑ Whether Jacob was married to a woman from the family of Elben is not known, but in view of the enfeoffment it is very possible.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Küch, Political Archive of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous of Hesse , Hirzel, Leipzig, 1910 (p. 688)
personal data
SURNAME Taubenheim, Jakob von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taubenheim, Jacob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ritter, Landgrave Hessian Ministerial
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1538