Johann Kranich von Kirchheim

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Family coat of arms after Johann Siebmacher , 1605

Johann Kranich von Kirchheim (* around 1455 ; † May 26, 1534 in Speyer ) was a noble Catholic priest and canon in the Principality of Speyer .

origin

He came from the Palatinate noble family of the Kranich von Kirchheim (also Kranch von Kirchheim), which was apparently related to the local noble families of the Kranich von Dirmstein and Kranich von Wachenheim. The family's name refers to Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse , while other villages of the same name were previously mentioned as the headquarters. The Kirchheim local historian Heinrich Julius Keller names the first sure name bearers of the family in the 13th century. With the canon Johann Kranich von Kirchheim, the male line died out in 1534. The Speyer prince-bishop Philipp von Flersheim (1481–1552) and his sister Hedwig von Flersheim (wife of Franz von Sickingen ) had a mother of this sex.

A Johann Kranich von Kirchheim studied at the University of Bologna in 1452, who is partially identified in the literature with our canon by giving him a very early date of birth around 1440. Because of the enormous difference to the 1577 documented study in Heidelberg, this is rather unlikely. The person in Bologna may have been a relative.

Nanstein Castle , coat of arms of the crane from Kirchheim, on well bowl from the 16th century.
The ruins of the Retscherhaus in Speyer

Live and act

Johann Kranich von Kirchheim was the son of Peter Kranich von Kirchheim and his wife Margareta von Lengefeld. He matriculated on September 25, 1477 at the University of Heidelberg and on July 23, 1483 advanced to the position of capitular in the Speyer cathedral monastery . On July 9, 1529 Johann Kranich von Kirchheim became provost of St. Guido (Speyer) . On May 16, 1531, he took the oath as archdeacon of the Principality of Speyer. As a long-time master of regalia of the Speyer Cathedral (1521–1534), he gave it various valuable paraments , a monstrance "what 2 men enough to wear", and left the head reliquary of Pope Stephan I , Bishop Sigibodo II of Lichtenberg († 1314) had donated, renew it and adorn it with a papal crown made of silver, gold and precious stones.

On February 23, 1530, he wrote three annual memorials for himself and his parents in the parish church of St. Georg in Wachenheim on the Weinstrasse , where his family's hereditary burial was located. The commemorations were set for September 17th (anniversary of the father's death), March 7th (anniversary of the mother's death) and for his own death anniversary. On the Sunday before they were to be announced to the faithful by the local pastor in the pulpit and the Wachenheim bell ringer was obliged to “put a bar on the big sarck, including my father, blessed, buried , over which a black cloth from Schechter and uff the same a black gulden stucco and four burning candles, adventure to the vigils and in the morning to the gothic amptern ” . He also endowed a memorial for the year at Speyer Cathedral.

Johann Kranich von Kirchheim was co-owner of the Retscherhaus in Speyer , which he sold to the city on October 27, 1495, together with his brother Heinrich, his cousin Praexedis and Matthias von Rammung as the authorized representative of his brother-in-law Albrecht V. Göler von Ravensburg .

On December 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1530, Emperor Charles V lived in the Speyer house of Johann Kranich von Kirchheim.

The canon died in 1534 as the senior of the chapter, jubilee priest and the last male offspring of his family. He was buried in the cloister on the south side of the cathedral, where an epitaph was placed, the inscription of which has been preserved. In 1530 he had appointed the cathedral dean Georg von Sternenfels as his executor .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Julius Keller: My home book: From past and present days of Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse, local community Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse , 1955, pages 204 and 205
  2. ↑ Website on Hedwig von Flersheim ( Memento from August 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: Studies on the personnel structure of the St. Guido Monastery in Speyer , Volume 51 of: Sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine Church History , self-published by the Society for Middle Rhine Church History , 1984, page 115; Excerpt from the source
  4. ^ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 1, Speyer 1836, p. 578; To the von Lengefeld family
  5. ^ Georg Litzel, Johann Michael König: Historical description of the imperial burial in the Speyer Cathedral , page 39, Speyer, 1825 digital scan
  6. ^ Franz Xaver Glasschröder: Documents on the Palatinate Church History in the Middle Ages , Munich, 1903, page 172, document regist no. 409
  7. ^ Wolfgang Eger: History of the City of Speyer , Kohlhammer Verlag, 1983, page 443, ISBN 3-17-008037-7 ; Excerpt from the source
  8. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : The Retscher in Speyer, documented , page 75, Speyer, 1858; Digital scan
personal data
SURNAME Crane from Kirchheim, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crane from Kirchheim, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and canon of Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1455
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1534
Place of death Speyer