Johann of Venningen (Vitztum)

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Venningen in Scheibler's book of arms (15th century).

Johann von Venningen often also Hans von Venningen († 1444 ) was an imperial knight of the right Neidenstein line of the lords of Venningen and Vitztum of the Electoral Palatinate in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .

family

Johann von Venningen was the son of Johann the Younger (also called Johann the One-Eyed ), Electoral Palatinate Faut on the Steinsberg , the brother of the Heidelberg Faut Johann the Elder . His mother's name was Guta von Mauer, called von Angeloch, and his brothers were: Eberhard († approx. 1489), Siegfried, who became abbot in Sinsheim , Conrad († before 1472), Dieter († 1446) and Ludwig, canon in Wimpfen . Johann von Venningen (Vitztum) was married to Adelheid von Frauenberg , daughter of Johannes von Frauenberg and the Gutta von Remchingen . Their marriage resulted in at least four children: Eucharius († 1505), Johann († 1468), Anna and Elisabeth (married Heusenstamm).

Life

Vestibule of the collegiate church in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse; Vault keystone with the coat of arms of the Lords of Venningen
Tombstone of Hans von Venningen and his wife, Neustadt collegiate church
Coat of arms of the wife Adelheid von Frauenberg

Johann von Venningen was Faut on the Steinsberg from 1422 at the latest . From August 1433 documents of him can be found as the Electoral Palatinate Vitztum in Neustadtuer , whereby in 1440 he appears in the Seelbuch of the Neustadt collegiate church as "the old Vitzdum" and apparently no longer held office. The Neustadt local historian Alban Haas began his work as Vitztum as early as 1422. This office was comparable to that of a senior official . His area of ​​responsibility included jurisdiction in the Speyergaus regional court . The count palatine in Heidelberg exercised the bailiwick over the bishopric of Speyer and at the beginning of the 13th century had the following places as fiefs : Neustadt with the castles of Winzingen and Wolfsburg , Gimmeldingen and Mußbach . That is why there had been a bailiff from the Electorate of the Palatinate in Neustadt since 1261, who was also responsible for the bailiwick in Speyergau from 1349. The victum was also one of the councilors of the elector , who also settled disputes between the various rulers . The Venningen Vitztum family in Neustadt was so wealthy that they lent large sums of money to the Palatinate dynasty, as can be seen from a document pertaining to daughter Elisabeth's dowry.

In 1440 he endowed "the old Vitzdum" at the Liebfrauenstift in Neustadt with 100 guilders , an annual memorial for him and his deceased wife, for their two deceased children (not specified), as well as for his and his wife's parents (also without Attribution). He decreed that on this day “a black siden duch” would be spread out on her grave in the morning and evening , that the canons like “over the grave ” after the soul mass and at Vespers and that they were “invited together with all the bells” to this mass. should. In 1443 he donated various inclines for a similar year memory in the parish church of his ancestral home in Neidenstein .

Johann von Venningen and his wife were buried in the Neustadt collegiate church . Her tombstone , on which May 8, 1434 was the date of her wife's death, is now in the Catholic choir , on the south side of the rear wall separating the Protestant nave, which is not the original location.

Johann von Venningen († 1432), his cousin of the same name, was court master of the Electoral Palatinate in Heidelberg and a close confidante of the elector.

progeny

The Vitztum's son of the same name Johann von Venningen was born in 1446 by King Friedrich III. with the castle Neidenstein invested .

His daughter Elisabeth married knight Eberhard von Heusenstamm , later mayor of Frankfurt am Main . They were the grandparents of the Archbishop of Mainz, Sebastian von Heusenstamm (1508–1555), who was very important during the Reformation .

When she married, Elisabeth von Venningen received a morning gift of 2,480 guilders from the income from the castle and village of Heusenstamm , as well as a tithing from Graefenhausen (Hesse), in return for the dowry she brought in . The corresponding document bears the date of September 17, 1449. In it the bride is called "Else von Vennyngen, Hansen blessed wicked von Venningen, has gone to zeyten vitzdum to Nuenstadt" and her dowry comes from a share of the "five thousand and two hundred guilders the myn merciful her the palatinate grave blessed and sin heirs minem sweher and sin heirs were guilty ” . In addition, she received a "celebration of all the good ones that myn sweher blessed zu Fraweberg , Fuerbach , Spechbach , Ossenbach and Weibstadt ... left and had."

Their sons Martin (archbishop Vitztum of Mainz and mayor of Frankfurt) and Eberhardt of Heusenstamm sold in 1481, along with her uncle Eucharius of Venningen (son of Neustadter Vitztums), inherited her from this, common shares of ganerblichen Burgfrau mountain , the village Feuerbach and the hamlet of Botnang , to Count Eberhardt von Württemberg , who in turn descended from the Palatinate Wittelsbach family on his mother's side. The Neustadt Vitztum Johann von Venningen owned this property near Stuttgart through his wife Adelheid von Frauenberg and later bequeathed it to his descendants, as the document from 1449 shows.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph von Brandenstein: Document system and chancellery, advice and system of government of the Palatinate Elector Ludwig III. (1410–1436) , Volume 71 of the publications of the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, 1983, page 332, ISBN 3-525-35385-5 ; Excerpt from the source
  2. ↑ Alban Haas : From the Nüwenstat: From becoming and life of the medieval Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, 1964, page 62; Excerpt from the source
  3. ^ Historical Association of the Palatinate, Neustadt district group: Das Seelbuch des Liebfrauenstifts zu Neustadt , Volume 11/1 of the association's series of publications, Speyer, 1993, page 159
  4. ↑ Silke Burkhardt: Famous grave monuments in the Neustadter Stiftskirche , Historical Association of the Palatinate, Neustadt district group, Volume 2 of the association's series of publications, 1984, page 31
  5. ^ Upper Rhine Historical Commission: Regest of the Margraves of Baden and Hachberg, 1050–1515 , Volume 3, page 177, 1907; Excerpt from the source
  6. ↑ Genealogical website on Eberhard von Heusenstamm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.frankfurter-patriziat.de  
  7. ↑ The couple's genealogical website
  8. ^ Karl von Graimberg : Explanatory directory of the monuments in the Graimberg Antiquities Collection of the Heidelberg Castle , Heidelberg, 1838, page 378 Scan from the source
  9. ^ Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner: History and antiquities of Rodgau's in old Maingau , Darmstadt, 1833, page 130; Scan from the source
  10. ↑ Correspondence sheet of the Gesamtverein der deutschen Geschichts- und Altertumsvereine, 32nd year, 1884, No. 11, from November 1884, pages 90 and 991 of the year Magnifiable scan from the source
  11. ↑ Christian Friedrich Sattler: History of the Duchy Würtenberg under the government of the Graven , Volume 4, Tübingen 1768, page 118; Scan from the source, for sale at Frauenberg Castle near Stuttgart
  12. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Schwarz: The University Maintenance Feuerbach , Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-16-444081-2 , page 25; Scan from the source
personal data
SURNAME Venningen, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Knights and Vitztum
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1444