Johann IX. Long coat from the rafter

Coat of arms of the long coat from the rafter

The long coat from the rafter, 1550

Johann IX. Long coat from the rafter , also Johann IX. von Langenmantel (* around 1440 ; † January 20, 1505 in Augsburg) was an Augsburg patrician and city keeper (mayor) from the family of Langenmantel vom rafter .

Live and act

He was born as the son of Hartmann IV. Langenmantel vom Sparren († 1466) and his wife Anna geb. Ridler . The father was one of the richest and most respected citizens of Augsburg. Ulrich Langenmantel , 1437–1473 provost to Völkermarkt in Carinthia and founder of the first Augsburg study foundation, was his uncle.

Johann Langenmantel is documented as a member of the city court in 1474, in 1476 he belonged to the Old Council and in 1477 to the Small Council of the Imperial City. In 1478 he was appointed mayor (Stadtpfleger) instead of the murdered Jos Onsorg and remained one of the most important politicians of Augsburg for the next 27 years. During this time he was elected mayor a total of 13 times.

In 1495 Langenmantel received the accolade as a knight of the golden spur at the Worms Reichstag by King Maximilian I.

He also held the office of captain of the Swabian Federation . In this capacity he traveled to Esslingen in 1499 with the Augsburg humanist and town clerk Konrad Peutinger . As early as 1493, the patrician was represented as a representative of the federal cities for the burial of Emperor Friedrich III. sent to Vienna . In the Swabian War in 1499 he led the Augsburg federal contingent of 400 soldiers and 70 horsemen against the Swiss.

For his support of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich in the Landshut War of Succession , Langenmantel received the Hofmark Igling with the associated castle on St. Nicholas Day 1504 .

Johann IX. Langenmantel vom Sparren died on January 20, 1505 during the Swabian Bundestag in Augsburg. The federal government passed the resolution that a solemn office for the dead should be held for him in all the cities belonging to it.

Friedrich Carl Gullmann names Johann IX. In his “History of the City of Augsburg”, Langenmantel vom Sparren mentions a “man who is very revered inside and outside Augsburg” , who “rendered important services” to both the city and the Swabian Federation .

The Magistrate of Augsburg elected his brother Georg Langenmantel vom Sparren as mayor as his successor , although he had never distinguished himself politically. He was also the mayor of Augsburg in 1518 when Martin Luther stayed here. His son, Canon Christoph Langenmantel vom Sparren , secretly brought him out of the city on the night of October 19-20 and helped him to escape.

family

Johann IX. Langenmantel vom Sparren was married to Magdalena geb. Former Her son Georg (Jörg) served as an officer in the service of King Franz I of France and fell as a brigadier of the black horsemen in 1525 in the battle of Pavia . Matthäus Langenmantel vom Sparren , another son (1485–1551), lived as a patrician in Augsburg and left a city chronicle.

Johann's great-granddaughter Sibylla († 1592, granddaughter of his son Marx) married the natural Wittelsbacher Georg von Hegnenberg-Dux (illegitimate son of the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV ) in 1551 and founded the noble family of the same name with him.

literature

• Christian Jakob Wagenseil : Complete history of the city of Augsburg from its origins , p. 85 u. 86, Augsburg, 1871; (Digital scan)
• Paul von Stetten : History of the noble families in the free imperial city of Augsburg , Augsburg, 1762, p. 71 u. 72; (Digital scan)

Web links

• Genealogical page about the person
• Another genealogical page about the person
• Article in the Augsburger Stadtlexikon on the long coat from the rafters

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the office of the Augsburg city ranger
2. ^ Johann Reuchlin, Briefwechsel , Volume 1, p. 160, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 1999, ISBN 3772819834 ; (Detail scan)
3. ^ Johann Seifert : Hoch-Adeliche Stamm-Taffeln , Part 3, Regensburg, 1726, 2. Stammtafel der Langenmantel; (Digital scan)
4. ^ Contributions to art and antiquity in the Oberdonau district, 1833 , Augsburg, 1834, p. 12; (Digital scan)
5. ↑ Martin Crusius : Schwäbische Chronick , 1738, Volume 2, p. 150; (Digital scan)
6. ↑ Johann Georg von Lori : History of Lechrain , Volume 2, p. 244, (Regest of the deed of transfer)
7. ^ Political mishaps for and about southern Germany , Volume 2, p. 59, Munich, 1805; (Digital scan)
8. ↑ Report in the Traunsteiner Tagblatt about the Landshut War of Succession with mention of Langenmantel
9. ^ Friedrich Carl Gullmann: History of the City of Augsburg from its Creation to 1806 , Volume 1, p. 205 u. 206, Augsburg, 1812; (Digital scan)
10. ^ Gottlob Egelhaaf: German history in the sixteenth century up to the Augsburg Religious Peace , Volume 1, p. 168, BoD - Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 3734007615 (reprint); (Digital scan)
11. ↑ Entry on the old merchant family in the Augsburger Stadtlexikon ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Chronicles of the German Cities from the 14th to the 16th Century , Volume 33, p. 250, Hirzl Verlag, 1928; (Detail scan)
13. ↑ Werner Rösener : Noble and bourgeois cultures of remembrance of the late Middle Ages and those of the early modern period , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000, p. 173, ISBN 3525354274 ; (Digital scan)
14. ^ English website on Matthäus Langenmantel
15. ^ Franz Xaver Ostermayr: Collective sheet of the historical association in and for Ingolstadt , issue 2, pp. 21–24, Ingolstadt, 1877; (Digital scan)