Johann von Venningen (Faut)

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Johann von Venningen (also called Hans or Johann the Elder; † 1425 ), was the founder of the left Neidenstein line of the Lords of Venningen . He was later than 1420 Faut of the Palatinate upper office Heidelberg .

family

Johann von Venningen was the son of Johann von Venningen († 1394), Faut zu Wildberg in the service of Count von Hohenberg-Wildberg , and Anna Elisabeth von Osweil. Johann had four siblings: including Anna, Johann the Younger (the one-eyed), Electoral Palatinate Faut on the Steinsberg and Elisabeth († 1438). Johann married Agnes von Lautern, with whom he had six children: Hugo, Eberhard, Dietrich († 1439), Canon in Würzburg , Johann († 1432), Hofmeister in Heidelberg, Conrad († 1428), Teutonic Knights , and Anna.

Life

The first recorded mention of Johann von Venningen dates from 1392, when he received half of the village of Schöckingen as a fief from Count Eberhard the Mild of Württemberg . This fiefdom was confirmed to him in 1401.

Johann von Venningen had been working at the Heidelberg court since 1401 and was part of the bodyguard of King Ruprecht , as Count Palatine Ruprecht III, when he was on his way to Rome. During this time Johann appears as a sealer for Ruprecht. There is evidence that he had been Vogt in Heidelberg since 1420, but probably as early as 1405, and his responsibility was the protection and handling of the central courts in the Meckesheimer and Stüber Zent as well as the collection of the slopes . Hans also lent the king money and part of the town of Kaub served as a pledge .

In 1407 King Ruprecht I sold the towns and castles Wildberg, Bulach , the fortress Feuerbach and the villages Rudenberg and Waldeck to the brothers Johann the Elder and Johann the Younger or the one-eyed for 7,500 guilders .

In 1408 Johann von Venningen was a councilor for the arbitration tribunal, which was supposed to settle the dispute between the knighthood of St. Georgenschild and the city of Constance on the one hand and the cities of St. Gallen and Appenzell on the other.

In 1422 Johann bought with his brother Johann the Younger from Albrecht von Venningen , from the Eschelbronn branch of the family, his share in Neidenstein. This created the left Neidensteiner line, founded by Johann the Elder, and the right Neidensteiner line, founded by Johann the Younger.

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