Johann Philipp von Helmstatt
Johann Philipp von Helmstatt (* 1545 ; † May 27, 1594 ) was Lord of Bischofsheim (today Neckarbischofsheim ), Hinsingen and Dürrkastel and also Marshal of the Electorate of the Palatinate . Because the possessions of his father Johann († around 1550), his uncle Christoph († 1578) and his grandfather Philipp von Helmstatt († 1563) belonged to him, he is one of the most important representatives of the Lords of Helmstatt .
Life
Johann Philipp was the only son of Johann von Helmstatt from the Dürkasteler branch of the gentlemen of Helmstatt and Anna Gisela von Helmstatt from the Grumbacher branch of the family. His father died around 1550 when Johann Philipp was still a child, so that Johann Philipp and his two sisters were raised by his maternal grandfather, Philipp von Helmstatt (1496–1563) in Bischofsheimer Schloss . He later attended the Gemmingen Latin School . Philipp von Helmstatt had no male descendants and chose the grandson to be his successor.
After Philipp's death, Johann Philipp and his uncle Christoph von Helmstatt (a brother of the father) took over the successor. In 1572 Johann Philipp and Christoph received full jurisdiction over Bischofsheim. When Christoph died childless in 1578, Johann Philipp fell to his Bischofsheim inheritance, after the death of Christoph's nephew Johann III. von Helmstatt zu Hinsingen acquired further possessions in Lorraine in 1592. He has acquired other goods. With the possession of four fifths of Rappenau the vassal duty for the Württemberg Duke Ludwig was connected, so that Johann Philipp, who was also in numerous services in the Electoral Palatinate, sold the Rappenau property to Reinhard von Gemmingen in 1592 , whereupon around 1600 the moated castle Rappenau , today the oldest building of the place arose.
In addition to the towns of Bischofsheim, Berwangen , Hasselbach , Flinsbach and Oberbiegelhof in the Kraichgau region , Johann Philipp's dominion also included property in Lorraine, including the Hingsingen reign and the half of the Dürkastel reign that fell to him in 1591 .
He was married to Agnes Landschadin von Steinach († 1580) in his first marriage since September 16, 1567 , and his second marriage from January 2, 1588 to Dorothea Landschadin von Steinach († 1606), who were not sisters.
Johann Philipp continued the busy building work of his grandfather Philipp at the family headquarters in Bischofsheim. In addition to other construction work on the castle (Prunktor from 1590), he had a tithe barn (1570), the Rentamt (1572), the town mill and the Löwen inn built, and he began to renovate the Church of the Dead , which gave it its current shape.
Still under Elector Friedrich III. († 1576) had become Johann Philipp Vogt von Boxberg. As such, he belonged in 1578 together with Bernolph von Gemmingen and two other nobles to the embassy, which in Sweden signed the marriage contract between Elector Ludwig's daughter Anna Maria and the later King Karl IX. should erect. On the way back he survived a fire that broke out on the ship. At that time he was probably also Marshal of the Elector before he was replaced as Marshal in 1582. However, he remained, even under Johann Casimir , Electoral Palatinate Council. In 1586 he was head of the delegation of the Protestant parties before King Henry III. in France. In 1592 Johann Philipp was reappointed the office of marshal, which the Protestant held until his death in 1594 , despite the change of denomination of the Electoral Palatinate to Calvinism .
Johann Philipp was buried in the Church of the Dead in Neckarbischofsheim. A three-part epitaph has been preserved in the choir of the church , showing him in life size with his two wives. However, only the first wife Agnes is buried there. Dorothea married again in 1599 and was buried elsewhere.
Johann Philipp left five sons: Johann Weiprecht, Bleickart, Valentin, Ludwig Carl and Philipp, among whom the father's possessions were divided up when his father died in 1594 and who, except for Johann Weiprecht, who died earlier, died during the Thirty Years' War. Pleickard († 1636) founded the Lorraine branch of the family, Valentin (1578–1637) the new Bischofsheim branch ; both came from the first marriage of Johann Philip.
Epitaph of Johann Philipp von Helmstatt (1545–1594)
Agnes Landschadin von Steinach († 1580)
Dorothea Landschadin von Steinach († 1606)
literature
- Hermann Stein, Arnold Scheuerbrandt: Origin and history of the (Neckar-) Bischofsheimer main line of the Lords of Helmstatt: their tombs and their buildings . Sinsheim 2005, ISBN 3-921214-31-9 .
- Peter Beisel: The century of the Reformation , in: Villa Biscovesheim Neckarbischofsheim 988-1988 , ed. from the Association for Home Care, Neckarbischofsheim 1988
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References and comments
- ^ Emil Künzel: Die Freiherren von Gemmingen (-Hornberg) in Bad Rappenau , in: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 8 , 1996, p. 7.
- ↑ L. Jean: Les seigneurs de Chateauvoué 966-1793 . Crépin-Leblond, Nancy 1897, p. 49.
- ↑ Beisel (see lit.) writes in 1988 that they were sisters, but Stein / Scheuerbrandt (see lit.) deny this in their paper from 2005.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Helmstatt, Johann Philipp von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | marshal of the Electoral Palatinate |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1545 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1594 |