Johann XI. Chamberlain of Worms

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Epitaph with the portrait figures of Johann Kämmerer von Worms and his second wife, Anna von Bickenbach , in the Katharinenkirche Oppenheim

Johann XI. Chamberlain of Worms , called von Hohenstein , (* around 1345 ; † October 9, 1415 ) was a German nobleman in the service of the Electoral Palatinate .

Origin and family

Johann XI. Chamberlain of Worms was a son of Winand I (* around 1302, named from 1332; † March 2, 1365) and his wife Demudis von Bechtoldsheim († May 29, 1348, buried in the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim ), a daughter of Peter and Demudis von Löwenstein .

Johann XI. was married twice: First marriage to Elisabeth von Winnenberg († 1397), daughter of the Oppenheim Reichsschultheißen Philipp von Winnenberg. After her death, he married Anna von Bickenbach on March 26, 1398 († May 22, 1415). From the first marriage:
1. Johann XIV. († October 18, 1383, buried in Oppenheim)
2. Greta († July 24, 1383)
The second marriage resulted in:

Epitaph of the daughter Anna († 1410), Katharinenkirche Oppenheim

3. Anna († October 30, 1410, buried in Oppenheim)
4. Johann XVII. , the elder (mentioned from 1390 or 1415; † July 2, 1431 in the Battle of Bulgnéville ) was burgrave of Starkenburg . In 1424 he married Anna, daughter of Hans and Guitgin (Guta) von Helmstatt († April 10, 1466, buried in Oppenheim). 5. Ida († 1411, buried in Oppenheim)
6. Demudis married Nikolaus VI on July 4, 1414. von Hunolstein († January or February 1455). She died after April 3, 1455. Both are buried in Remagen .

Johann XI. used as the first member of the family of the Chamberlain von Worms the nickname "von Dalberg". The best-known and long-surviving branch of the Chamberlain of Worms descends from him.

See also

Johann Kämmerer von Worms died on October 9, 1415, only a few months after his wife Anna. Both were buried in the Katharinenkirche Oppenheim and received a very elaborate double epitaph with full figures.

Act

politics

Johann XI. was a noble squire in 1366 and appears as a knight in 1374 . Perhaps already under the Palatinate Elector Ruprecht I († 1390), but no later than 1395 under his successor, Ruprecht II († 1398), he was court master at the Palatinate court. The position of court master was also associated with the function of the highest judge in the Electoral Palatinate. Johann XI. was involved in the deposition of King Wenceslas in 1400, as well as in the election of his successor, Ruprecht I († 1410), who was named Ruprecht III. Palatine Elector was. Johann XI. was one of the leading officials at the Palatinate court for several generations of rulers. In 1402 he lent the king 3,000 guilders for the planned Italian campaign, which then did not take place.

When King Ruprecht's son, Elector Ludwig , married the English Princess Blanca , in 1402 Johann XI, the councilor Rudolf von Zeiskam and the Speyer cathedral dean Nikolaus Burgmann were sent to the English court to receive the dowry . He was also sent to France on a diplomatic mission by the Elector.

When Elector Ruprecht I acquired Oppenheim in 1376 , he appointed Johann XI. 1377 to the local mayor . In 1401 he also advanced to the position of Burgamtmann in Oppenheim .

family

Together with his brother, Peter II. And his nephew, Peter III., Johann XI. the rights of the Fulda monastery in the villages of Abenheim , Dittelsheim and Mölsheim . While Abenheim was permanently owned by Dahlberg until the end of the Old Kingdom , the rights in the other two villages were later sold again: Mölsheim came to Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Dittelsheim was sold to Friedrich IV of the Palatinate in 1606 .

literature

  • Friedrich Battenberg : Dalberg documents. Regesta on the documents of the treasurers of Worms called von Dalberg and the barons of Dalberg 1165–1843 Volume 14/3: Corrigenda, indices and family tables (by Dalberg and Ulner von Dieburg) = Repertories of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt 14/3. Darmstadt 1987. ISBN 3-88443-238-9
  • Johannes Bollinger: 100 families of the chamberlain from Worms and the lords of Dalberg . Bollinger, Worms-Herrnsheim 1989. Without ISBN.
  • Regine Dölling: St. Katharinen Oppenheim . 2nd edition: Schnell + Steiner. Regensburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-7954-2528-9
  • 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.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Battenberg: Repertories 14/3, Plate I: † May 30, 1348.
  2. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55 and Battenberg: Repertorien 14/3, plate III, filiate him at this point as the son of Winand I. Bollinger, pp. 26-28, but refers - without evidence - to documents in which Peter III . be called his father.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The ordinal numbers according to Bollinger, pp. 10–13.
  2. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55.
  3. ↑ Bollinger, p. 25.
  4. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55; Bollinger, p. 25: † October 4, 1415.
  5. ↑ Bollinger, p. 20.
  6. ↑ Battenberg: Repertories 14/3, Plate I.
  7. ↑ Document from 1389 March 26 from the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt ( HStAD, A 1 No. 86/7 ). Here Anna is already referred to as a wife and is sealed with the alliance coat of arms.
  8. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55, Bollinger, p. 26.
  9. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55, Bollinger, p. 26.
  10. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55.
  11. ^ Dölling: St. Katharinen , pp. 40, 42.
  12. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55.
  13. ↑ Battenberg: Repertories 14/3, Plate III.
  14. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55.
  15. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55, Bollinger, p. 26.
  16. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 55.
  17. ^ Dölling: St. Katharinen , p. 40f.
  18. ↑ Bollinger, p. 25.
  19. ↑ Bollinger, p. 25.
  20. ↑ Arnd Reitemeier : Foreign policy in the late Middle Ages: the diplomatic relations between the Reich and England 1377-1422 = publications of the German Historical Institute London 45. Schöningh, Paderborn 1999. ISBN 978-3-506-72043-6 , pp. 98, 226, 240.
  21. ↑ Bollinger, p. 25.
  22. ↑ Heinrich Eduard Scriba : Regests for the regional and local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Volume 3: The Regests of the Province of Rheinhessen , Darmstadt, 1851, p. 238, Regest 3542 .
  23. ↑ Bollinger, p. 23.
  24. ↑ Bollinger, p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Chamberlain of Worms, Johann XI.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann X. Chamberlain; Chamberlain of Worms; von Hohenstein, Johann XI.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hofmeister of the Electorate of the Palatinate, mayor and Burgamtmann
DATE OF BIRTH around 1345
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1415