Johannes von Heppenheim called from the hall

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Family coat of arms Heppenheim, named from the hall

Johannes von Heppenheim called vom Saal (* around 1502 ; † 23 May 1555 ) was a noble canon in the Princes of Speyer and Worms .

Origin and family

He came from the noble family of the Lords of Heppenheim called vom Saal and was the son of Anton von Heppenheim called vom Saal and his wife Katharina von Oberstein . His brother Andreas († 1568) acted as canon in Worms, his sister Barbara († 1567) as abbess of the Rosenthal monastery . Her grave stone with full relief is preserved in the monastery ruins. The vicar general Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein († 1537) was his cousin.

In the pilgrimage church Dieburg there is a valuable epitaph altar for his niece Anna Maria von Heppenheim called vom Saal († 1576) and her husband Philipp Ulner von Dieburg († 1595), Grand Court Master of the Elector of Mainz. In Worms Cathedral there is an artistically valuable epitaph of nephew Eberhard von Heppenheim called vom Saal († 1559), with his full kneeling figure.

Life

Tomb of nephew Eberhard von Heppenheim called vom Saal († 1559), in Worms Cathedral

Johannes von Heppenheim called vom Saal enrolled as a canon from Selz on September 13, 1519 at the University of Heidelberg .

On January 18, 1529 he was accepted into the Speyer cathedral chapter , on November 24, 1535 he was unanimously elected as the cathedral dean there . He was also canon in Worms . When Emperor Charles V visited Speyer in January 1541 , he and other canons were appointed to greet the monarch and present him with a present. Johannes von Heppenheim called vom Saal played an outstanding role in the unification of the Weissenburg Monastery with the Duchy of Speyer in 1546 .

He died in May 1555 and was buried in the (no longer existing) cloister of the Speyer Cathedral . His grave inscription indicated the age of 52 years.

literature

  • Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder : choir rules and younger sea book of the old Speyer cathedral chapter , Speyer, Historischer Verein der Pfalz, 1923, pages 266 u. 267 (with biographical information on the person)
  • Manfred Krebs: The protocols of the Speyer Cathedral Chapter , Volume 21, S. 188, Kohlhammer Verlag, 1968; (Detail scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Documentary history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 1, Neustadt an der Haardt, 1836, p. 290; (Digital scan to Abbess Barbara)
  2. ^ Gravestone of Abbess Barbara von Heppenheim ( Memento from December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Website on the epitaph altar in Dieburg
  4. ↑ Website with pictures of the epitaph
  5. ^ Franz Xaver Remling: History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, Mainz, 1854, p. 311; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Heppenheim called vom Saal, Johannes von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heppenheim vom Saal, Johannes von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION noble canon in the prince-bishopric of Speyer and in the prince-bishopric of Worms, Speyer cathedral dean
DATE OF BIRTH around 1502
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1555