Johann Brenner von Löwenstein

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Family coat of arms from the epitaph of grandson Wilhelm Brenner von Löwenstein , Deidesheim

Johann Brenner von Löwenstein († March 21, 1521 ) was a nobleman in the service of the Electoral Palatinate .

Origin and family

He came from the Palatinate ministerial family of the Brenner von Löwenstein (sometimes also Brenner von Lewenstein or just Löwenstein or Lewenstein), which had its ancestral seat at Löwenstein Castle near Niedermoschel . Sometimes they also had the addition of Randeck to their name, as they appear as gan heirs on Randeck Castle, which can be leaned from the Reich .

His parents were Brenner von Löwenstein († 1471) and Anna Knebel von Katzenelnbogen († 1476).

Live and act

Johann Brenner von Löwenstein received Imsweiler Castle from Elector Philipp in 1487 as a man fief . He entered the service of Count Palatine Johann I von Pfalz-Simmern and officiated as his bailiff in Bad Kreuznach from 1499 . From 1508 to 1512 he was burgrave of the Electorate of the Palatinate and Oberamtmann of Alzey . Emperor Maximilian issued him a fiefdom for Randeck Castle in 1518 .

Johann Brenner von Löwenstein married Apollonia born in 1482. von Heppenheim called vom Saal († 1525). Their son Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein († 1537) was vicar general and cathedral cantor in the prince-bishopric of Speyer . The couple were buried in the Catholic Church in Imsweiler, where their double epitaph has been preserved.

The wife Apollonia was a sister of Anton von Heppenheim called vom Saal and thus the aunt of his children, the Speyer cathedral dean Johannes von Heppenheim called vom Saal († 1555) and his sister, the Rosenthal abbess Barbara von Heppenheim called vom Saal († 1567) .

Via the son Friedrich, Johann Brenner von Löwenstein is the grandfather of Wilhelm Brenner von Löwenstein († 1579) Prince-Bishop of Speyer in Deidesheim .

literature

  • Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral Palatinate on the Rheine , Volume 4, Frankfurt, 1788, p. 334; (Digital scan)
  • Johann Maximilian von Humbracht : The highest ornament Teutschland and excellence of the Teutschen nobility: presented in the Reichs-Freyen Rhenish knighthood , Frankfurt am Main, 1707, double pages 86 u. 87; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Keddigkeit : Palatinate Castle Lexicon, Volume 1, Part 3, p. 60, Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, 2005, ISBN 3927754501 ; (Detail scan)
  2. ↑ Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt for a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral Palatinate on the Rheine , Volume 4, Frankfurt, 1788, p. 20; (Digital scan)
  3. ↑ Website on Alzey Castle
  4. ^ Johann Christian Lünig : Corpus juris feudalis Germanici , volume 1, part 3, columns 1295 and 1296, Frankfurt, 1727; (Digital scan)
  5. ↑ Newspaper article on the tombstone, from: Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung, Alzey local section, April 9, 2014
  6. ^ Enlargeable family tree of the Heppenheim called vom Saal
personal data
SURNAME Brenner von Löwenstein, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brenner from Lewenstein, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nobleman in the service of the Electoral Palatinate, burgrave and chief magistrate
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1521