Johann Sebastian von Hirnheim

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Johann Sebastian von Hirnheim , often also Hürnheim (* approx. 1495 ; † May 31, 1555 in Speyer ) was a nobleman and judge at the Imperial Court of Speyer.

origin

He came from the Swabian noble family von Hürnheim and Hirnheim. The headquarters are in Hürnheim with Niederhaus Castle , today part of the Ederheim community in the Donau-Ries district .

Johann Sebastian von Hirnheim was born the son of Bero von Hirnheim and his wife Agnes von Ehingen , daughter of the knight Georg von Ehingen (1428–1508).

His brother Eberhard II von Hirnheim († 1560) was Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt , while his brother Georg († 1537) was dean of the Prince-Provostei Ellwangen .

A precious epitaph in the crypt chapel of the Catholic parish church Mariä Himmelfahrt zu Hochaltingen , a district of Fremdingen near Donauwörth, commemorates the paternal grandparents Eberhard von Hirnheim and Anna von Hohenrechberg .

Live and act

The aristocrat began his law studies in 1508 at the University of Ingolstadt and enrolled, together with his two clergy brothers, at the University of Bologna in 1514 , where he still stayed in 1516. He completed his studies with the graduation of Doctor iuris utriusque .

After the victory over Duke Ulrich , Hirnheim acted as Augsburg's representative in 1520 when the Duchy of Württemberg was handed over to Emperor Charles V by the Swabian Confederation .

Soon afterwards, the Swabian Federation presented him as an assessor - d. H. as judge - to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer. For this purpose he took the oath of office on November 20, 1521 in Nuremberg . In 1522 he became representative of the Electoral Palatinate in the same capacity at the Imperial Court of Justice and was a member of the highest judicial body in the empire for 32 years until his death.

As a representative of the Imperial Regiment, Hirnheim was sent to Elector Johann von Sachsen and Landgrave Philipp von Hessen in 1528 to negotiate with them about their armaments against the monasteries of Mainz and Würzburg .

Johann Sebastian von Hirnheim was married to Maria Antonia Jakobäa von Neuhausen († August 18, 1582), with whom he had several children. A daughter married into the von Wallbrunn family . Maria Antonia Jakobäa von Neuhausen was first married to Balthasar, treasurer of Worms, called von Kropsburg, who had died in 1528.

Former Cloister on the south side of the Speyer Cathedral. It served as the cathedral's burial place until 1689; the Mount of Olives Chapel in the middle is still standing.

The lawyer died on May 31, 1555 in Speyer and was buried in the cloister of the Speyer Cathedral , which went down in the city fire of 1689 and remained in ruins; In 1820 the remains were also removed.

Hirnheim is registered with a year memory in the younger Seelbuch of the Speyer Cathedral.

Since he was a friend and colleague of the Speyer judge Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer , the Zimmer Chronicle also reports about him. There it says:

“ Was even ain adelichs cleverly mendle, who in his youth studied several years at Bononia and other high schools in Italy, also read and learned a lot, also ain guette time before sat in the imperial regiment. He had a wonderful memory of what he saw and experienced, he could say it and he knew it, as if it were the next day before, and not always that he still knew it, but he could tell it with those words he said that from a month, two or more months; He doesn’t like a word about it, as he has been tried to get away with in vil ... He has a great pleasure in telling old historias; ... In giving lectures, as others do or in audiences, he pleads with vil to write down and to notice ... Finally, he is reluctant to stay at the chamber court because of the dangerous leuf in the Reich, also that the chamber court characters were so hateful at the members of the Augspurgic confession. "

- Karl August Barack : Zimmerische Chronik , 2nd edition, Mohr, Freiburg 1881–1882, volume 3, page 121

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ottmar Friedrich Heinrich Schönhuth: Collection for customers of German prehistory in all relationships , Schwäbisch Hall, 1848, page 34 (page 2 of the 3rd chapter); Digital scan
  2. ^ Matthias Miller, Karin Zimmermann: The Codices Palatini germanici in the Heidelberg University Library (Cod. Pal. Germ. 304-495) , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, page 604, ISBN 3447052295 ; Digital scan
  3. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states . New series, vol. 9: Families from the Middle and Upper Rhine and from Burgundy . Marburg 1986. Without ISBN, plate 55.
personal data
SURNAME Hirnheim, Johann Sebastian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hürnheim, Johann Sebastian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nobleman, lawyer, judge at the Reich Chamber of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1555
Place of death Speyer